Melanie S. Pinkert

Melanie Pinkert is a writer from Miami, Florida. She has lived in Santa Cruz, California and Quetzaltenango, Guatemala and is currently living in Washington, D.C. She has a degree in Latin American Latino Studies from the University of California Santa Cruz, where her research focused on human rights violations resulting from immigration laws and the war on drugs. She writes about the culture, history, food, politics and geography of the Americas. She is editor of www.bohova.com, a provider of online travel guides.