Advisory and Evaluation Committee

Nancy Graciela Ulloa Erazo holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Communication and Information from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Tourism Destination Development from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and a degree in Social Communication from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, as well as postgraduate qualifications in university teaching and quality management under ISO standards.

She has extensive experience teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels in areas including communication theory, organizational communication, advertising communication, educational, community, and alternative radio, public relations, corporate narratives and storytelling, crisis management, transparency and accountability, and business ethics. Her research interests include communication theory, organizational communication, communication management, corporate narratives and storytelling, and media and new technologies.

Her academic career includes sustained involvement in research, scientific evaluation, and the organization of national and international academic events. She has served on scientific and organizing committees for conferences and has worked as an academic reviewer and international peer evaluator for scholarly publications and academic events.

In university administration and professional practice, she served as Coordinator of the Institutional Communication Unit at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Ibarra Campus (PUCE-SI), as Director of its School of Social Communication, and as Director of Internationalization. She has also supervised and advised academic research and participated in research initiatives related to communication, organizations, technology, and education.

She is the author and co-author of academic publications in various areas of contemporary communication, with work published in academic books, conference proceedings, specialized journals, and indexed publications. Her work as a writer also extends to the literary field: in 2026, she contributed to the anthology Mujer Bienestar, Volume 3, published by S. E. Pinar Publisher.

Her work also extends to the social and cultural spheres. She has promoted projects serving communities and social organizations, participated in cultural initiatives in Ecuador, and is involved in community initiatives in South Carolina, United States.

Jacinto Cires López holds a Doctorate in Economics and a degree in Law. For more than forty years, he taught at the University of Pinar del Río, Cuba, where he attained the rank of Full Professor. He currently resides in the United States.

Fernando Salmerón is a Peruvian writer and author of short stories and essays. He has written more than one hundred short pieces and is the author of the book Entre Ortigas y Claveles. His work has been recognized in various literary competitions, and he has received awards in Miami, Savannah, San Antonio, Dallas, Los Angeles, Houston, and Peru.

A systems engineer by profession and an adventurer by vocation, he was born in Arequipa, Peru, and currently resides in Dallas, Texas.

Othoniel Hatchett was born in the Dominican Republic, where he attended aviation school and graduated as a private pilot. His professional career has been defined by public service, law enforcement, community leadership, and a longstanding commitment to the Hispanic community.

Hatchett retired as a police officer with the City of Beaufort after a distinguished career in law enforcement, during which he received approximately 80 commendations. Eighteen of those awards recognized his work with the Hispanic community in the state of South Carolina. He was also nominated for a Congressional Award in recognition of his community service.

Throughout his career, Hatchett has served on the executive boards of several nonprofit and community organizations, including the South Carolina Association of School Resource Officers, HELP of Beaufort/Meals on Wheels, the Boys & Girls Club of Beaufort, and the YMCA of the Beaufort Lowcountry. He has also served on the Lady’s Island Airport Regional Board.

Hatchett was a member of the South Carolina State Defense Force, where he served in several leadership positions, including Company Commander, Battalion Commander, and Assistant Brigade Commander. He retired from the organization with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

His work on behalf of the Hispanic community has earned him numerous distinctions. He received the Orgullo Hispano Award from Somos Uno Magazine and was selected to participate in the National Immigration Forum, where he addressed issues related to the U.S.–Mexico border, Dreamers, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and proposed immigration reforms before Congress. He was also nominated as a CNN Hero in recognition of his work with the Hispanic community.

Hatchett has also used community events to support charitable causes. He participated in the Dancing with Our Stars competition to raise awareness and funds for CAPA Beaufort, the Child Abuse Prevention Association.

He currently serves as a Corporal Federal Police Officer and Field Training Officer (FTO) for the Department of Defense and is trained as a federal and U.S. Marine Corps police officer. In August 2022, the Department of Defense considered Officer Hatchett as a candidate for nomination for a one-year duty officer detail to the National Security Council (NSC) at the White House Situation Room in Washington, D.C. He is also a recipient of the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort On-the-Spot Award for exceptional performance beyond the normal bounds of duty.

In June 2026, Hatchett was recognized as a Hometown Hero by Castelo Portrait Art and Magazine in Summerville, South Carolina. On June 28, 2026, he joined the International Humanitarian Interpreters Brigade, a global network of volunteers supporting earthquake rescue operations in Venezuela by facilitating crucial communication between English-speaking rescue workers and Spanish-speaking victims through real-time telephone interpreting during rescue operations.

In addition to his public-service and community work, Hatchett has developed an extensive presence in Spanish-language and local media. He currently serves as the first Ambassador/Reporter for WHH Television Beaufort News Channel 8 in Hilton Head, South Carolina; hosts a radio talk show on Al Día Vaqueva Radio; and works as a reporter for OceanosTV on YouTube.

Across law enforcement, community organizations, media, humanitarian service, and civic engagement, Hatchett’s career reflects a sustained commitment to public service and to strengthening communication and representation within the Hispanic community.

He is married to Katherine, and they have two daughters, Amy and Emily.

Rosario Allpas is a Peruvian writer and a graduate in Nursing from Federico Villarreal National University. She has published short stories in anthologies and has received awards in literary competitions in the United States, Spain, Mexico, Panama, and Guatemala.

Her works Detrás de una lámpara. Relatos de enfermeras, Recovecos. Colección de relatos, and the novel Harvey received Honorable Mentions at the International Latino Book Awards (ILBA) in 2020, 2021, and 2022. In 2026, she received an ILBA Gold Medal for her book Los animales de la Luna, recognized as Best Children’s Fiction Book.

Yalitza Therly Ramos Gil is a Venezuelan-born researcher based in Zaragoza, Spain, whose work bridges the social sciences and the physics of information. She holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Communication and Information, awarded cum laude, from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Over more than twenty-five years, she has authored over forty peer-reviewed publications, has a Scopus h-index of 9, and is an accredited researcher in Venezuela (Category A-1, FONACIT) and Ecuador (SENESCYT).

For more than five years, she taught the psychology of communication, drawing on linguistic, pragmatic, and discourse models as well as content analysis—the same tools she now brings to the question of who, or what, writes a text. She served as principal investigator on a project on communication strategies for disaster prevention and large-scale risk management, and she has worked as a peer reviewer for academic journals.

As a member of the Information Physics Institute (IPI), she studies proto-information: the genealogy linking Pythagorean number, the Sefer Yetzirah, and the combinatorial projects of Llull and Leibniz to Landauer’s thesis that information is physical. She tests these ideas with text-compression methods, a family of techniques also used in authorship attribution. Her work on the Hebrew sources draws on a two-year specialized program (2019–2021) on the Kabbalistic tradition and the Hebrew letters at Mario Sabán’s School of Kabbalah in Barcelona, completed with special distinction.

She writes fiction under the pen name Therly Ramos. She registered her book Los sueños de Therly with an explicit declaration of AI involvement, a timestamp, and blockchain anchoring—a working case for the questions of attribution and transparency at the heart of this Congress. She integrates AI into her research openly and under her own critical supervision, and she has completed employment training in Cybersecurity: Prevention, Analysis and Incident Response through Aragon’s Public Employment Service (INAEM), Spain.