Karen Dubinsky has observed Havana and Cuba as an intimate outsider for many years. She regularly brings university students from Canada to Havana to learn about Cuban economic and cultural development, and she hosts Cuban musicians and academics in Canada. She has written about legendary Cuban musician Carlos Varela in My Havana: The Musical City of Carlos Varela, and on Cuban child migration conflicts in Babies Without Borders: Adoption and Migration Conflicts Across the Americas. Her other books include The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls, and New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness. She teaches in the departments of Global Development Studies and History at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.