The North American 77

One interconnected continent—three nations bound by trade, geography, and shared responsibility. We will focus on practical & strategic thinking to design our future as one continent.

I’m North American.

Not because of a passport, but because of where I was formed.

Growing up on the U.S.–Mexico border teaches you something early: borders are not abstractions. They are lived systems. They work—or fail—based on decisions made far beyond the checkpoint.

On the border, daily crossings are normal. Families stretch across countries. Languages, customs, and legal systems overlap in ordinary life. You grow up understanding contradictions not as theory, but as routine.

Today, that border reality is no longer local. It is continental.

North America trades as a block, yet still thinks as three separate countries. That gap—between economic integration and political fragmentation—is becoming increasingly costly in a world reorganizing around trust, coordination, and resilience.

For those who operate within cross-border systems—moving goods, capital, and people—the consequences of misalignment are immediate. Delays compound. Inefficiencies harden. Competitiveness erodes. This isn’t an…