Centro Center for Puerto Rican Studies
Puerto Rico Puerto Ricans - Diaspora Summit III 2019
Expo Presentation – Saturday September 21, 2019
Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College NY
The CHU will be sharing the latest outcomes of the last Puerto Rico Re_Start II student proposals for rapid response, resiliency and reconstruction of the Island.
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Resiliencia y Solidaridad: Encuentro con la Diáspora
Panel 1: Resiliency and Design
Moderator: Martha Kohen Director, Center for Hydro-Generated Urbanism, School of Architecture, University of Florida (FL)
Panelists:
– William Siembieda, Dean, Regional Planning Division, California Polytechnic State University (CA)
– Elizabeth Class-Maldonado, Architect, RetoñoPR (PA)
– Manuel Bermúdez, Principal, Manuel Bermúdez Arquitecto csp (PR)
Panel 2: Education
Moderator: Maria Estefania Barrios, Research Associate, Center for Hydro-Generated Urbanism, School of Architecture, College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida (FL)
Panelists:
– Johanna López, Orange County Public Schools Teacher of the Year (FL)
– Rosibel Recondo, Pietrantoni Director, School Luis Llorens Torres (PR)
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Diaspora Summit III
Panel 1: Resiliency and Design
Moderator: Anna Georas, Escuela de Arquitectura, University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, PR) – http://earq.uprrp.edu/teacher/anna-l-georas/
Panelists:
– Nancy Clark, Program Coordinator, Global Lab UF G|SoA + Director, Center of Hydro-Generated Urbanism, College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida School of Architecture (Gainesville, FL)
– Javier Dejesus, Director of the Innovation Center at University of Sagrado Corazón. Nuestro Barrio: Distrito Cultural (Santurce, PR) – https://bit.ly/2w2HfFj
– Martha Kohen, Director, University of Florida, Center for Hydro-Generated Urbanism, (Gainesville, FL) – https://dcp.ufl.edu/faculty/martha-kohen/
Panel 2: Academic and Civic Exchanges
Moderator: Margarita Varela Rosa, Member, Cenadores PR (Arlington, VA) – https://bit.ly/2I7Mit5
Panelists:
– Maria Estefania Barrios, Research Associate, Center for Hydro-Generated Urbanism, School of Architecture, College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida (Gainesville, FL) – https://bit.ly/2HLhZFh
– Teresita Levy, Associate Professor, Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies, Lehman College, City University of New York (Bronx, NY)
– José Luis Rivera, Founder and President, Puerto Rican Student Association, University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL) – https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/jos%C3%A9-luis-rivera
– Rachel Stephenson, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Strategic Partnerships, Office of Academic Affairs, City University of New York (New York, NY)
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