Created by Yarimar Bonilla, Professor of American Studies in the Effron Center for the Study of America at Princeton University, Bridging the Divides is a Mellon-funded program that brings together Puerto Rican artists, journalists, and scholars from across Puerto Rico and its diasporas to imagine a brighter future.
Elizabeth Aranda
Professor of Sociology, Director of the Immigrant Well-Being Research Center in the College of Arts and Sciences
University of South Florida
Yarimar Bonilla
Bridging the Divides Director and PI
Professor in American Studies, Effron Center for the Study of America, Princeton University
Mónica A. Jiménez
Assistant Professor in African and African Diaspora Studies
University of Texas at Austin
Deepak Lamba-Nieves
2023-24 Bridging the Divides Co-convener
Infrastructure & Transportation Justice Director, PolicyLink
Sarah Molinari
Cultural Anthropologist, Postdoctoral Researcher
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
Ed Morales
Author, Journalist
Lecturer, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University
José Juan Pérez Meléndez
Assistant Professor in Latin American and Caribbean History
University of California, Davis
Raúl Santiago-Bartolomei
Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Planning, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
