A YEAR AFTER MARIA: Current and Future Challenges in Puerto Rico
October 15, 2018
On October 15, 2018, the Rutgers-Camden Community Leadership Center hosted its Hispanic Heritage Month symposium “A Year After Maria: Current and Future Challenges” to mark one year following Hurricane Maria that devastated Puerto Rico and triggered a critical process to identify new methods to reconstruct and revitalize communities and people’s lives. Speakers discussed how to re-imagine, re-invent, re-shape, and re-think Puerto Rico around the issues of education, health, energy, and the economy in this critical time to improve the island’s security and safety. The event also coincided with a special book talk and signing with Judge Nelson A. Diaz on the release of his memoir, Not from Here, Not from There/No Soy de Aqui ni de Alla, published by Temple University Press.
THE HONORABLE EDUARDO BHATIA | Presentation
Senator and Past President of the Puerto Rican Senate
EDWIN MELÉNDEZ, PH.D. | Presentation
Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies and Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College
JORGE HADDOCK, PH.D. | Presentation
President, University of Puerto Rico
THE HONORABLE NELSON A. DIAZ | Book
Partner, Dilworth Paxson LLP
A Call to Action: Future Challenges for a New Puerto Rico
March 30, 2018
A Call to Action: Future Challenges for a New Puerto Rico united experts in dialogue and conversation around the current state of affairs in Puerto Rico and the future challenges and opportunities in rebuilding the island following the devastation of Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Researchers and policymakers presented on how to improve Puerto Rico’s workforce and industrial base, alleviate the debt obligations, reform Puerto Rico’s political and legal relationship with the United States government, and build partnerships between universities and NGOs as anchor institutions. This symposium called the community to action to learn how to support and sustain Puerto Rico at this momentous period in the island’s history. Click here to learn more about the symposium and to view the research presentations