![cuban-economy-landing_01 The Cuban Economy Today: Cuba Confronts US Blockade, COVID-19 Pandemic, New Economic Challenges and Policies](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cuban-economy-landing_01.jpg)
Co-Chairs
![saney Isaac Saney](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/saney.jpg)
Dr. Isaac Saney - is a Cuba specialist at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. He is the author of the acclaimed book Cuba: A Revolution in Motion (Zed, 2004), various scholarly articles on Cuba and is currently finishing Africa’s Children Return! Cuba, Africa and Apartheid's End (Lexington Books). He is also the co-chair and National Spokesperson for the Canadian Network on Cuba.
![azza Azza Rojbi - North African social justice and anti-racism activist, author of the book "U.S. & Saudi War on the People of Yemen" and coordinator of Friends of Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade. As well Azza is a member of the Editorial Board of the Fire This Time Newspaper.](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/azza.jpg)
Azza Rojbi - North African social justice and anti-racism activist, author of the book "U.S. & Saudi War on the People of Yemen" and coordinator of Friends of Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade. As well Azza is a member of the Editorial Board of the Fire This Time Newspaper
Speakers
![cuba-un-1 Juan Miguel González Peña, First Secretary of the Mission of Cuba to the United Nations. Juan Miguel has a degree in economics from the University of Havana (2093) and a Master in International Economic Relations from the Raul Roa Garcia Higher Institute of International Relations of Cuba (2006).](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cuba-un-1.jpg)
Juan Miguel González Peña, First Secretary of the Mission of Cuba to the United Nations. Juan Miguel has a degree in economics from the University of Havana (2003) and a Master in International Economic Relations from the Raul Roa Garcia Higher Institute of International Relations of Cuba (2006).
![cuba-un-2 Alejandro Martínez González, Third Secretary of the Cuban Mission to the United Nations. Alejandro has a degree in economics from the University of Havana (2013) and a Masters in International Political Relations from the Higher Institute of International Relations (2016).](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cuba-un-2.jpg)
Alejandro Martínez González, Third Secretary of the Cuban Mission to the United Nations. Alejandro has a degree in economics from the University of Havana (2013) and a Masters in International Political Relations from the Higher Institute of International Relations (2016).
![helen-yaffe Dr. Helen Yaffe - Professor - the University of Glasgow who had done important research and published on Cuba’s amazing medical advances and internationalism (and is the author of Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution and We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World, Yale University Press).](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/helen-yaffe.jpg)
Dr. Helen Yaffe - Professor - the University of Glasgow who had done important research and published on Cuba’s amazing medical advances and internationalism (and is the author of Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution and We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World, Yale University Press).
![tamara-lee Dr. Tamara L. Lee, Esq.- Assistant Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations Dept. at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. Her academic work supports two separate research streams: critical race theory and intersectionality in industrial relations and worker political participation in Cuban industrial relations.](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tamara-lee.jpg)
Dr. Tamara L. Lee, Esq.- Assistant Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations Dept. at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. Her academic work supports two separate research streams: critical race theory and intersectionality in industrial relations and worker political participation in Cuban industrial relations.
![emily Dr. Emily Morris - a research fellow at UCL-London's Global University and a Development Economist specializing in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her most recent teaching includes Latin American Economics: Beyond Neoliberalism and The Transformation of Cuba.](http://www.us-cubanormalization.org/viva-cuba/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/emily.jpg)
Dr. Emily Morris - a research fellow at UCL-London's Global University and a Development Economist specializing in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her most recent teaching includes Latin American Economics: Beyond Neoliberalism and The Transformation of Cuba.