Media & Public Events

Interviews

“Rebranding NAFTA; New trade deal offers more of the same for Mexico” (Latin America News Dispatch, October 30, 2018)
“Pasteles, a Puerto Rican Tradition, Have a Special Savor Now” (New York Times, December 1, 2017), interview on Puerto Rican pasteles and the food situation in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
“Personalizing Pasteles” (Edible Manhattan, November 6, 2016), interview on Puerto Rican pasteles.
“Cultural Factors Affecting Nutritional Outcomes”, Lehman College Public Health Minute, September 15, 2016.
Radio interview at “Native” on Heritage Public Radio, Puerto Rican Culture and Crisis (Episode 34), October 22, 2015.
“My Family Pastelada in Brooklyn: Story, tutorial and recipe” (Centro Voices, December 3, 2014), interview about traditional Christmas foods.
“Puertorriqueña investiga cómo los caribeños hablan sobre su alimentación” [Puerto Rican investigates how Caribbeans talk about their food], EFEUSA on August 15, 2014 (also distributed to El Nuevo Dia, Telemundo Atlanta, and other local and national media outlets)
“Buscan cambiar relación humana con los alimentos” [Seeking to change human relationship with food], Television interview at Telemundo (Puerto Rico), August 14, 2014.
Radio interview at “Salud y Nutrición con Vilma Calderón”, Radio Isla 1320 AM (Puerto Rico), August 11, 2014.

“Puerto Ricans Turn to Cacerolas When Their Voices Have Been Silenced or Ignored” (Op-Ed by Monica Ocasio Vega for Remezcla on the July 2019 protests in Puerto Rico)