Lucas Mulea is a resident of San Juan and has been unemployed since the hurricane hit. In this impromptu interview in the Santurce district of San Juan, Lucas briefly discusses the challenges that he has faced in the wake of Hurricane María.
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Orlando Pérez Nievez owns a small barber shop in Adjuntas. Thanks to Casa Pueblo, his shop is the first solar-powered business in the town. Orlando Pérez Nieves owns a small barber shop in Adjuntas. In this interview with Professor Anderson, he talks about how the solar energy provided...
Edwin Pacheco and Florentino Santiago are fishermen based in Guánica, the town in southern Puerto Rico where the U.S. invasion took place in 1898. While they describe how Guánica was one of the areas least directly impacted by Hurricane María, fishermen Edwin Pacheco and Florentino...
Lorna Moreno and Héctor Rosario are a married couple who are small business owners in Santurce. In this interview, they describe how their burgeoning artisanal yogurt business Viva la Fruta was destroyed by Hurricane María. In the absence of support from the government, and insurance...
Dr. Iván Figueroa Díaz is a physician in San Juan. Dr. Figueroa was very active with the local community following the hurricane. In the first conversation with Will, Dr. Figueroa discusses the days and weeks following the hurricane and describes Puerto Rico’s public health and...
Justo “Tito” Hernandez is the Deputy Federal Coordinating Officer for Response at the Puerto Rico Joint Field Office (JFO) in San Juan. The University of Michigan team was granted a 15-minute window with Justo “Tito” Hernandez, a native Puerto Rican with over 20 years of FEMA service...
Héctor Rodríguez is a resident of Morovis, a small mountain town located about 40 miles from San Juan. Morovis was cut off from electricity, clean water, and emergency care for weeks after María. In this interview, Héctor talks about his experiences living in Morovis in the days and weeks...
Laura Moscoso is a Puerto Rican journalist. She is a member of the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI), the organization responsible for preparing the Puerto Rican government to release the death records for Puerto Rico in the period between Sept 17 to date. In this interview...
Maritza Stanchich, PhD, is a Professor of English at University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, where she teaches Caribbean, Latina/o and U.S. Literatures, and served for four years in the Academic Senate. She previously worked as an award-winning journalist and her more recent columns for...
Sue Anne Bell is a Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Michigan. Dr. Bell is a nurse scientist and family nurse practitioner, with expertise in disaster response, community health and emergency care. Her research focuses broadly on the health effects...