As a historian, educator, and digital humanist, my projects center AfroLatin American and AfroLatinx histories, in Puerto Rico and beyond, through expanding access to the archival record and engaging communities beyond the academy in sharing our stories.

Digital Humanities:

Archives of Puerto Rican Slavery Map (2025-). Drawing on knowledge developed over nearly a decade of research, this digital tool expands access to primary sources related to the lives of enslaved and emancipated people in Puerto Rico. Each pin on the map provides key details for using one of twenty archives with relevant collections (in Puerto Rico, Spain, or the United States) - its physical location, hours of operation and contact information, collections guides, procedures to access, and real-time directions. This Map was developed as a postdoctoral fellow with Centro’s Black Puerto Rican Futures initiative.

Libertos de Puerto Rico (coming soon!). This bilingual project-in-development highlights the individual stories of freedpeople in Puerto Rico who navigated slavery, abolition, and its afterlives in the colony. Connecting the abolition law, primary sources, and biographical narratives about individual libertos, the LPR site will help people today better understand the often-obscured, downplayed and abstracted end of slavery through the stories of real people who lived through it. This project is funded by the Mellon Foundation through its Taller Entre AguasResearch and Training grant.

Public Humanities/Education:

Taller Entre Aguas Field School (2026-2028). Taller Entre Aguas (TEA), a Black feminist digital humanities research lab, runs an annual bilingual field school in Puerto Rico, focused on bomba history and interdisciplinary methods skill building. As Assistant Director/Archival Coordinator of Taller Entre Aguas, I lead a two-part hands-on workshop (Paleography and Archival Methods) through which participants learn to read nineteenth-century documents and ethically engage primary sources, in Puerto Rican archives, related to enslaved and emancipated Black Puerto Ricans. See photo in the margin. Funding: Mellon Foundation.

Afro-Latin American International Youth Research Expedition (2016-2019), WHEELS High School. As a New York City public high school educator, I developed and institutionalized the school’s first study abroad program. Based on students’ and my shared interests, it focused on Afro-Latin American history in Cuba (2016; 2017), Peru (2018), and Puerto Rico (2019). Pre-departure, I taught a credit-bearing historycourse about Atlantic and hemispheric migrations; in each country, students met with Black elders, historians, community leaders, artists, and religious leaders to learn about each nation history through racial, gender, and class lenses. In Puerto Rico, I led my students in an archival methods workshop. at the Archivo General de Puerto Rico, during which they analyzed primary sources related to the 1872 census of enslaved people in the colony. I worked with Dash Harris, of Afro-Latinx Travel, to develop the itineraries for each trip; each year, our group fundraised $12-15K to subsidize students’ costs.