CUNY’s Yarimar Bonilla, a prominent voice on the volatile politics of her native Puerto Rico, spent the summer in San Juan, immersed in the revolt that led to the resignation of the commonwealth’s governor. Bonilla is back with plenty to say about the historic events and how they’re intertwined with the continuing aftermath of 2017’s Hurricane Maria.

Bonilla is a political anthropologist who teaches at Hunter College and The Graduate Center. She is the co-editor of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm​, a collection of essays, poems and photographs published this month by Haymarket Books.

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