Collective Care: Oral Histories of Climate Change in Puerto Rico

FAIN: PN-292959-23

University of Puerto Rico at Cayey (Cayey, PR 00736-4127)
Rosa Ficek (Project Director: December 2022 to present)

A project to record 22 oral histories with three community-based organizations to explore community response and resilience after hurricanes and other climate-related disasters in Puerto Rico. 

The project aims to preserve and build access to a collection or oral histories about community responses to climate change in Puerto Rico. Collective Care is a partnership between the UPR-Cayey, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH), and community-based organizations in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Through this partnership, the project documents community-led responses to disasters, beginning with hurricanes Irma and María in 2017, the 2020 earthquakes, the covid-19 pandemic, and the underlying economic crisis.