A YEAR AFTER MARIA: Current and Future Challenges in Puerto Rico

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
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