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

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Monday, 15 October 2018, 9:00

Monday, October 15, 2018. 9:00AM. A Year After Maria: Current and Future Challenges in Puerto Rico. Eduardo Bhatia, Puerto Rican Senate; Jorge Haddock, University of Puerto Rico; Nelson A. Diaz, Dilworth Paxson LLP; Edwin Meléndez, Hunter College. Sponsored by  Rutgers–Camden Office of the Chancellor, Rutgers Global Health Institute, and LEAP Academy University Schools. More information here.


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. The following 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.

 

Location  Rutgers–Camden Campus Center, Multipurpose Room, 326 Penn Street, Camden, NJ