Loyola Escamilo is the Director of the Madidi-Tambopata Landscape in Peru for the Wildlife Conservation Society. She works primarily in the management of protected areas and in the interpretation of natural and cultural heritage. She has worked with various institutions such as ACCA, Conservation International, the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law and SERNANP (MINAM). From 2008, Loyola was project coordinator in Pronaturaleza, where she devoted herself to the management of conservation projects and development.
Writer and photographer Nicholas Gill is one of the co-founders of New Worlder. He lives in Lima, Peru and Brooklyn, New York. He is co-author of the books Central, Latin America: The Cookbook, and Slippurinn. His work also appears in the New York Times, Fool, Saveur, and many other publications.
Rey Guerrero, the chef of the restaurant Rey Guerrero Pescaderia Gourmet in Bogota, is the preeminent ambassador of the food of Colombia's Pacific Coast.
Lima born Gastón Acurio is Peru's best known chef and is the head of an international empire of restaurants that exports Peruvian cuisine around the world. His flagship restaurant Astrid y Gastón is on the San Pellegrino World’s Best Restaurants list at number 14, though he has also launched the popular cebicheria La Mar, chifa Madam Tusan, burger spot Papachos, and countless other Peruvian concepts.
A self-confessed cork dork, freelance journalist and sommelier Sorrel Moseley-Williams traverses South America’s southern cone in the quest for food, wine and travel experiences. Last weekend took her to a sea salt party in Argentine Patagonia; a few months ago she unearthed the story about Bolivia’s freshwater clams; next month she’ll be road-tripping to Uco Valley in Mendoza with some somm mates. Living in Argentina’s northeast in 1998 for a year then making a permanent move in 2006 to Buenos Aires, she has contributed to CNN Travel, Condé Nast Traveler and Traveller, The Guardian, Saveur, The Independent and Departures. She writes weekly in the Buenos Aires Herald and is wine editor of Time Out Buenos Aires. Guide book collaborations include Wallpaper*, Fodor’s and Rough Guide among others; she has also written for Cuisine & Vins, La Nación, U-Like It and Forbes Argentina in Spanish. This cork dork also runs a wine blog (obviously): Come Wine With Me.
