Michael Bustamante is a Ph.D. Student in Latin American and Caribbean History at Yale University, where his research focuses on the politics of collective memory among Cubans on and off the island since 1959. From 2006-2009, he served as Research Associate for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., where he helped co-author the 2008 Task Force Report U.S. Latin American Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality and the 2009 book Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know (by Julia Sweig, Oxford University Press). He is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale College (2006). Michael was raised in Palm Beach County, FL.