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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