“Resiliency is the Governance of Uncertainty”
A powerful statement was made at the opening of the 2019 RISE Conference, a conference dedicated to Transforming University Engagement
Tag: Rebuild Puerto Rico
Reflections of a Pro Bono Staff Attorney for #UBLawResponds: Commitment to Puerto Rico’s Resilience
By Octavio Villegas, Staff Attorney for the University at Buffalo School of Law’s Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic I
The Chance to Connect with the Puerto Rican Community as a Ph.D. student joining #UBLawResponds in January 2020
By Alex Bakke, University at Buffalo PhD student in Spanish Literature & Language Upon arriving in Puerto Rico to join the
Shaky Spaces: January 2020 Observations on Camps in Southern Puerto Rico
The recent clusters of earthquakes along the southern coast of Puerto Rico have added immense chaos to an already unstable
A New Normal: “Please Note the Emergency Exit, in Case It Becomes Necessary”
As our team entered the beautiful legal clinic, one of the very first things the Director said to us was
To the People with a Sense of Statelessness
“Somos dueños de un país sin dueño” We are the owners of a country without a Master (René Juan Pérez)
#UBLawResponds Is Feeling the Earthquakes, Standing With #PuertoRico
Most of our #UBLawResponds team felt the first earthquake. We were doing a short refresher on trauma-informed lawyering and service
Puerto Rico’s War of Information…
Puerto Rico’s War of Information… I am a student attorney in the University at Buffalo School of Law’s Puerto Rico
Maria “Survivor” or “Victim”?
Cancer survivor, abuse survivor, murder victim, and amputee victim. Now imagine these phrases: Cancer victim, abuse victim, murder survivor, amputee
Framing the 1,844 mile future
I write this at the end of the first full day of my sixth trip to Puerto Rico since Hurricane
