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Agenda
Friday, October 26, 2018
Location: 4340 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington DC 20008
Room: 5th floor - Moot Court
Room: 5th floor - Moot Court
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5:00 PM | Networking Session |
6:00 PM | Opening Remarks Margarita Varela-Rosa, Chairperson of Puerto Rican Diaspora Summit - Washington DC Jackie Reyes, Director of DC Mayor's Office on Latino Affairs Julio Guity-Guevara, Deputy Director of DC Mayor's Office on Latino Affairs |
6:30 PM | Showing of movie: Bancarrota by: Jose M. Umpierre and Kendall Marsh |
7:30 PM | Understanding the Debt An expert panel will lead the discussion about the history of the debt of Puerto Rico, current events and what we can do as citizens |
8:00 AM | Registration | |
9:00 AM | Opening Remarks Margarita Varela-Rosa Chairperson of Puerto Rican Diaspora Summit - Washington DC | |
9:30 AM | Puerto Rico Post Maria - One Year After Dr. Edwin Melendez Director, Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY | |
10:10 AM | Public Policy and Reconstruction Efforts Panel | |
11:00 AM | Empowering Women in Politics | |
11:50 AM | Lunch | |
12:40 PM | Good Governance, Accountability and Transparency Panel | |
1:40 PM | Leveraging Federal Opportunities to Promote Economic Development in Puerto Rico Panel | |
2:30 PM | Break | |
2:45 PM | Engagement Sessions: Advocacy Track - How to be the best advocate for Puerto Rico by: BoricuActivatEd | Civic Engagement Track - ReImaginaPR by: Resilient Puerto Rico Advisory Commission - Crafting a civic agenda for the DC region’s Puerto Rican community by: National Puerto Rican Agenda Capital Region |
4:45 PM | Keynote Speaker Ana María García Founder of Instituto Nueva Escuela | |
5:10 PM | Recognitions by: DC Mayor's Office of Latino Affairs Jackie Reyes, Director of DC Mayor's Office on Latino Affairs Julio Guity-Guevara, Deputy Director of DC Mayor's Office on Latino Affairs | |
5:30 PM | Networking Event and Reception |
Before Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico's largest man-made disaster was its financial crisis. When in June 2015, then Governor said to the national media that "The debt is not payable" it sent ripples across the financial press. How did Puerto Rico's debt get out of control? Weren't there protections in the Puerto Rico Constitution of how much could be borrowed? Who created this debt?
This topic will be covered on the first day of the Puerto Rican Diaspora Summit - Washington DC, on Friday, September 14, 2018 after the Networking Session that begins at 5:00pm. At 6:30pm we will have the screening of the documentary Bancarrota by Jose M. Umpierre and Kendall Marsh. This 58-minute documentary will explain and illustrate the magnitude of the crisis, the aggravating economic factors and the implications of the unsurmountable debt acquired by Puerto Rico. |
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