Alberto C. Medina is the president of Boricuas Unidos en la Diáspora (BUDPR), a national nonprofit organization of Puerto Ricans in the United States who educate and organize for Puerto Rico's decolonization. He also leads communications at the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University. His writing has appeared in outlets including The New Republic, Current Affairs, The Hill, The Progressive, The Latino Newsletter, Jacobin, Colorado Politics, The Fulcrum, and El Nuevo Día?Puerto Rico's main national newspaper. The author lives in Aurora, Colorado.