by Elizabeth Angeles | Jan 25, 2018 | Service
On New Year’s Eve, I received a special anonymous wish for the new year. I found this message on my work mobile phone and am not sure who sent it. All I know is that it must have been one of the few people at the NYC Hurricane Service Center that I gave my...
by Elizabeth Angeles | Dec 31, 2017 | Local Leader, Puerto Rico Support, Service
There have been various efforts to support Puerto Rican evacuees in the States, particularly in New York. I chatted with Lilah Mejia, a fellow Boricua and Lower East Side native, who has been working at the NYC Hurricane Service Center, on behalf of New York Disaster...
by Elizabeth Angeles | Oct 20, 2017 | Disaster Response, Puerto Rico Support, Service, Service Trip
I spent two weeks deployed in Puerto Rico after La Isla del Encanto was impacted by Hurricane Maria, the 10th most intense storm ever recorded in the Atlantic. I arrived in Puerto Rico on September 27th, seven days after the storm made landfall. Puerto Rico, the...
