Our Team
coordinating committee
Cecilio Ortiz Garcia
phd
Marla Perez Lugo
PhD
Jahaira Felix
PHD
Frances Gonzalez
MA
Christofer Valdez
advisory council
Anais Roque
PhD Student @ASU
Kim Conolly, JD
Director Puerto Rico Legal Clinic @SUNY Buffalo
Catalina de Onis, PhD
@ University of Colorado-Denver
Jennie Sthepens, PhD
Director Program in Urban Policy and Planning @ Northeastern University
Isabel Rivera Collazo, PhD
SCRIPPS UC San Diego
Elvia Melendez- Ackerman, PhD
@UPRRP
Erica Smithwick, PhD
@ Penn State
Stephen Buckman, PhD
@ Clemson University
Aleyda Villavicencio, MPH
Harvard University
Fernando Rivera, PhD
@ UCF
Jacob Mans
Arq @ University of Minnesota
external board
Alfonso Latoni
phd
Ramon Bueno, MS
Independent Climate Researchers
Yanel de Angel
arq
Olivia Scriven
FEMA
Yosem Companys
Techlantis
Margarita Valera Rosa
Margaret Favretti
DesignEd4Resilience
Jonathan Castillo
Hispanic Federation
Ines Palmarin
Federal Reserve Bank Of Boston
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). Senior Program Officer for Communities/Resilient Families
Edil Sepulveda
NASA
Faith Hall
Dominion Advisory Group
those who helped make rise a reality
Lionel Orama Exclusa (UPRM), Michael Crow (President of ASU), Clark Miller (ASU), Jacob Mans (UMN), Kim Connolly (UB-Law), Ramon Bueno (IR), Jennie Stephens (Northeastern), Mieke Van Dem Warsem (Tufts), Kelly Gallager (Tufts), Valery Luzadis (SUNY-ESF), Mark Liechtenstein (SUNY-ESF), The Latin American Studies Program at Princeton University, Karen Cerulo (Rutgers), Tom Richards (Penn State), Lara Fawler (Penn State), Michelle Wyman (NCSE), Francisco Unanue III (President of Goya Foods, Miami), Erica Smithwick (Penn State), and Havidán Rodriguez (President of SUNY-Albany), Edwin Asencio (UPRM) and Hernan Santos (UPRM), University of Minnesota, School of Architecture, Maria Concepcion (OXFAM), among many others.
And most importantly, we recognize all the post-Maria Puertorrican undergraduate and graduate students that constitute the spinal cord of this network: Yiamar Rivera (ASU), Anais Roque (ASU), Adriana Castillo (ASU), Victor Ruiz (ASU), Angel Echevarria (ASU), Jan Cordero (ASU), Glorynel Ojeda (ASU), Jessica Ortiz (ASU), Cristian Marchany (ASU), Javier Marchany (ASU), Kelian Gonzalez (ASU), Angelica Valdes-Valderrama (Tuft) and Ibrahim Lopez (Northeastern), and Leif Hansen (Tuft), Aaron (Rutgers).