Jim Shultz is the founder and executive director of The Democracy Center, a nonprofit that tackles issues of social, economic, and environmental justice, with a focus on Latin America. Working for the organization, he lived from 1998 to 2017 in Cochabamba, Bolivia, where he also served as president of an orphanage. He is a co-author and co-editor of Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia’s Challenge to Globalization (2008) and the author of the forthcoming memoir My Other Country: Nineteen Years in Bolivia. (November 2019)
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