Lydia Perez is the founder and the Artistic director of The Puerto Rican Institute for Arts and Advocacy (PRIAA), based in Rhode Island and founded in 1994. The institute champions the gathering and retention of cultural memory, language, and identity transmitting these across generations in the form of education through the arts, not only for Puerto Ricans, but for all Latinos and for all Rhode Island.

Through the arduous 32 years of Afro-Puerto Rican career in Rhode Island and throughout New England, Lydia Pérez brings with her the Cultural Heritage Center, where all PRIAA social and cultural activities are developed for its members and for the Diaspora in Rhode Island.

Yidell Rivera has work with the Puerto Rican Institute of the Arts since 2000 as an Assistant for the Board of Director through her work as part of her Volunteer internship. ​

The Puerto Rican Institute for the Arts and Advocacy, Inc. (PRIAA) is a non-profit organization founded in October 1994 by Puerto Rican artist Lydia Pérez, an internationally renowned performance and folklore artist, dedicated to promoting and facilitate citizenship and cultural awareness of Puerto Rico through the music and the arts. On October 30, 2021, PRIAA opened its Cultural Heritage Center at Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket to continue internships and promotion in our collaborative space.

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