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).