My name is Domenico Celli I'm currently a Global Studies & Public Administration student at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. My passion is social entrepreneurship and it is what has given me hope that real change can be made within a lifetime. Inspired by my experiences as a child, visiting my family in Puerto Rico, I have spent the past year and a half researching and developing an understanding economic, political, and social issues that have historically plagued the island. My focus has been on the potential for specialty agriculture to develop into an economically sustainable industry that can provide inclusive economic and social benefits to those involved. Especially following Hurricanes Irma and Maria (of which, it's effects I have seen first hand in my family still living in Puerto Rico), I am dedicated to finding a path of resurgence and sustainable growth for Puerto Rican specialty agriculture.
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Summer 2018
This summer I will be traveling to the central mountain region of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico to live on a coffee farm devastated by Hurricane Maria. I've spent the past year researching the social, political, and economic history of the island's agricultural sector whose coffee and tobacco exports were once famed and culturally significant. I find treatment of this industry to represent larger themes of external control, manipulation, uncertainty and disempowerment in the island's history.
I'll be meeting with the people working to keep this lifestyle economically sustainable & socially beneficial.
This summer I will be traveling to the central mountain region of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico to live on a coffee farm devastated by Hurricane Maria. I've spent the past year researching the social, political, and economic history of the island's agricultural sector whose coffee and tobacco exports were once famed and culturally significant. I find treatment of this industry to represent larger themes of external control, manipulation, uncertainty and disempowerment in the island's history.
I'll be meeting with the people working to keep this lifestyle economically sustainable & socially beneficial.