co-editor; Writer, Poet, Professor at Wellesley College; Member of the Advisory Board of the Gabriela Mistral Foundation, Inc. Her most recent book "I Lived on Butterfly Hill," has received five important awards.

co-editor, President of the G.Mistral Foundation; Founder and International Director of the Chapter in Chile of the NMWA

Contributor; Gabriela Mistral's last executor. Ms. Atkinson donated the Mistral Legacy to Chile.

Chilean Franciscan priest, and is the Director of the Saint Francis Colonial Art Museum and the Director of the Gabriela Mistral Franciscan Fund, which was established to collect and distribute the royalties of Mistral's works to benefit the children of Montegrande

Poet, translator, essayist, and scholar of inter-American literature

credit: Columna Villarroya

Contributor; Former First Lady of Chile and Humanitarian. Holds a degree in Family and Human Relations from Universidad Mayor. For many years Ms. Morel has worked to support causes dealing with women's and children's issues. During her years as First Lady of Chile, she was a great promoter of Mistral--her literary and humanitarian work. She was awarded a Special Recognition for her Humanitarian work in 2014 by the Gabriela Mistral Foundation, Inc.

David Unger, a Guatemalan-born novelist and translator, was awarded his country’s Miguel Angel Asturias National Literature Prize for 2014 even though he writes exclusively in English and lives in the U.S. His fifth novel The Mastermind (New York: Akashic Books, 2016) was published in July of 2015 by Planeta México under the title El manipulador. In 2013 El precio de la fuga (Guatemala: F y G Editores) was published and in 2012 CIDCLI published his children’s book La Casita in Mexico.

French poet. Wrote the introduction to the first collection of poems translated to the French Language. The book was translated in 1939 but was not published until after World War II.

Contributor and Content Supervisor; Director, Writer's Archive and Mistral's Legacy at the National Library of Chile; member of the Gabriela Mistral Foundation, Inc.'s Advisory Board.

Former Ambassador of Sweden in Chile, is presently the President of the Swedish Branch of Operation 1325 working on a UN resolution underlining the importance of women in armed conflicts and prevention), and as of January 2015 is the President of the Swedish Chilean Institute of Culture in Sweden. During her time as Ambassador in Chile, Ms. Zetterberg had an important role in promoting Mistral’s impact in Sweden.