Juan Valdes, National Geographic Maps
WASHINGTON, DC -- JANUARY 2: Juan Valdes is The Geographer and Director of Editorial and Research at National Geographic Maps. He poses with a globe in front of the Map of Discovery, Western Hemisphere by Newell Convers Wyeth, commissioned by National Geographic in 1927. As a child, he emigrated to Miami from Cuba after the Bay of Pigs and grew up in the U.S. Recently he returned to Cuba for the third time, seeking answers about his pastâ¦. (photo by Andre Chung for The Washington Post)