Brazil LAB event with Ilona Szabó, Brian Winter, and Deborah Yashar.
 

Ilona Szabó is a human rights and international studies scholar. A globally recognized civic entrepreneur, Szabó is the co-founder and executive-director of lgarapé, a leading think-and-do-tank on security, climate, and development issues in the Global South. Szabó is a member of the High-Level Advisory Board of the United Nations Secretary-General. She is the author of A Defesa do Espaço Cívico (In Defense of Civic Space) and Drogas: As Histórias que Não te Contam (Drugs: The Untold Stories), among other books.

Brian Winter is the editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly and one of Latin America's most influential political analysts. He lived in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico as a correspondent for Reuters before taking on his current role in New York, where he is also the vice president of policy for the Americas Society and Council of the Americas. He is the author of several books, including The Accidental President of Brazil (with Fernando Henrique Cardoso). 

Deborah Yashar is the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs and Director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Her scholarship focuses on democracy and authoritarianism, state-making and citizenship, social movements, and ethnic and immigration politics.