A Year After Maria: Current and Future Challenges in Puerto Rico

Posted by Rutgers University on September 17, 2018

PUERTO RICO: ENERGY, EDUCATION, HEALTH & ECONOMY

The Community Leadership Center Hispanic Heritage Month symposium marks 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 will discuss 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 will also coincide with a special book signing with Judge Nelson A. Diaz on his upcoming memoir, Not from Here, Not from There/No Soy de Aqui ni de Alla, published by Temple University Press.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2018
9:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.
Rutgers–Camden Campus Center
Multipurpose Room

1:30 – 3:00 P.M.
Meeting with University Stakeholders on MOU with
President Jorge Haddock, Ph.D

Lunch will be included in the event.

RESERVE YOUR SPACE HERE: https://rcit.rutgers.edu/apps/payment/register.php?event_id=302

GUEST SPEAKERS:

• THE HONORABLE EDUARDO BHATIA, Senator and Past President of the Puerto Rican Senate
• JORGE HADDOCK, PH.D., President, University of Puerto Rico
• THE HONORABLE NELSON A. DIAZ, Partner, Dilworth Paxson LLP
• EDWIN MELÉNDEZ, PH.D., Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies and Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College

CONTACTS:
Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, Ph.D. gloriab@camden.rutgers.edu 856-225-6348
Matthew Closter, Matthew.closter@rutgers.edu 856-225-6923