Storytelling in the Aftermath Virtual Panel | University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez

Climates of Inequality

Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Storytellers from various genres shared excerpts of their work on disaster, trauma, survival, and healing. The panel featured children’s book authors, comix artists, filmmakers, oral history narrators, poets, and social media curators. Together, they explored how sharing personal experiences through storytelling helps navigate challenges and change.

259 Blvd. Alfonso Valdés Cobián Mayagüez, PR 00680
10:30 am—12:00 pm
Storytelling in the Aftermath

Join storytellers from multiple genres as they share excerpts from their work related to disaster, trauma, survival, and healing. Bringing together children’s book authors, comix artists, filmmakers, oral history narrators, poets, and social media curators, the storytellers on this panel explore together how telling stories based upon personal experiences helps them navigate challenges and changes.

10:30am Storytellers’ Panel, ONLINE
Zaira Arvelo Alicea, OHL @UPRM – Loretta Collins Klobach, Department of English, UPR-Río Piedras – Rosa Colon, Soda Pop Comics – Linda Rodríguez Guglielmoni, Department of English, UPRM

Moderator: Edcel Cintrón González, Illinois State University