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Communities Educommunicate: Rescued Schools Driving Change in Puerto Rico
The rescued schools in Puerto Rico have been transformed into vibrant spaces for educommunication, media literacy, and intergenerational social organization. Since their reoccupation following the mass closure of schools and Hurricane Maria, these community initiatives demonstrate how communication and education strengthen resilience, collective memory, and social action.

Mariely Rivera
Dec 17, 20255 min read


Community Educommunication in Puerto Rico
Building from the community constitutes one of the most democratic and revitalizing processes to cultivate positive social changes. In order to do so, it is of the outmost importance to educommunicate our populations. Conversation, dialogue, and the exchange of wide and varied ideas become key actions to achieve communication. Communication is culture, manifesting in different forms, such as in the way that individuals interact with each other to agree or disagree on certain

Mariely Rivera
Oct 27, 20253 min read


Communication Is Culture: Comuniteca Is Born
Comuniteca es un podcast cultural y educativo de ChangeMaker Foundation que une resistencia y mainstream para afirmar que la comunicación es cultura. A través de historias de líderes comunitarios, artistas y educadores en Puerto Rico y la diáspora, fomenta la educomunicación y el activismo cultural como motores de cambio social.

Mariely Rivera
Sep 4, 20253 min read


Network Movements of Yarn Bombing: Between Resistance and the Mainstrem
Yarn bombing reimagines public spaces as canvases for protest, art, and community. Explore how this global movement blends resistance and trend culture.

Mariely Rivera
Aug 5, 20253 min read


Cine boricua: The Course of Puerto Rican Fictional Films of the Twenty-First Century
Cine boricua is an essential work that analyzes 21st-century fiction filmmaking in Puerto Rico. Through 107 films, it explores themes such as identity, resistance, and the sociocultural impact of cinema on the Puerto Rican nation and its diaspora.

Mariely Rivera
Jul 1, 20253 min read


Visual Culture: Digital and In-Person Experiences as Seen in the Web Page Nuestros Tambores
Explore how the Nuestros Tambores website fuses tradition, audiovisual media, and digital culture to highlight musical craftsmanship in Puerto Rico. An analysis of visual culture, identity, and heritage legacy based on Mariely Rivera’s doctoral research.

Mariely Rivera
Jun 5, 20254 min read


Images, Memory, Remembrances Through the Lens of Restorative Justice
Images and memories hold power. This blog explores how photography, video, and collective memory intertwine with restorative justice. Through community experiences and restorative circles, it proposes a new way to heal, honor pain, and rebuild through image and memory.

Mariely Rivera
May 12, 20254 min read


Audiovisuals, Agriculture, and Educommunication: The Case of AgroInnova
Audiovisual media shed light on the human stories of emerging agro-entrepreneurs and promote educommunication through digital platforms.

Mariely Rivera
Apr 8, 20254 min read


Community Self-Management: The Heart of Rescued Spaces
Community self-management ventures are considered the governance of the commons.

Mariely Rivera
Mar 5, 20256 min read


The Juana Colón Route
Social media tends to be controversial due to the misinformation that can be shared easily online.

Mariely Rivera
Mar 4, 20254 min read


Equity Spectators
Equity Spectators: Uniting communities through inclusive events, promoting social justice, and challenging unconscious biases.

Mariely Rivera
Jun 20, 20233 min read


BirdsCaribbean: a pivot of environmental conservation in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean
Collectively, all species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms on the planet are known as our biological diversity, or...
Adrianne G. Tossas Cavalliery
May 31, 20233 min read


Mentoring is an effective way of promoting inclusive education.
In the picture shown, at the right is the graduate student Karla Ramos Maysonet and on the left is the undergraduate student, Fabiola...

Mariely Rivera
Oct 12, 20221 min read


The ChangeMaker Foundation releases an audiovisual to explain digital equity
The Foundation shows how it transforms communities in Puerto Rico By Valerie A. López Jiménez After its first year working with 14 Puerto...

Mariely Rivera
Jun 27, 20223 min read


Presentan los “Derechos de las mujeres y la filantropía en las Américas”
Miami, Florida- 11 de junio de 2022– Con el fin de impulsar y desarrollar nuevos conocimientos e implementar soluciones a favor de los...

Mariely Rivera
Jun 13, 20223 min read


Pandemia, Economía Colaborativa y Filantropía
Se asoma una transformación de comportamientos estratégicos tras la pandemia para donar a quienes realmente demuestren un impacto social....

Mariely Rivera
Dec 30, 20213 min read


ChangeMaker Foundation: Promoting Social Entrepreneurship through Data Culture
The Pivot Accelerator impacted organizational and community leaders in the fields of Arts and Culture...

ChangeMaker Foundation
Dec 20, 20213 min read


Jangueo cultural entre lectores: primera feria del libro en Barranquitas
Por la redacción de CMF En Puerto Rico, las festividades navideñas se iniciaron al son de la lectura con la primera feria de libros...

ChangeMaker Foundation
Dec 14, 20212 min read


Boricuas prove their leadership
by Valerie A. López Jiménez Humanity is not lost. The world has people interested in the social good. The participants of the...

Mariely Rivera
Sep 30, 20212 min read


A book review of Pivots: Agents of Change Taking Action (Spanish Edition)
Review by Dr. Wanda Cosme-Montalvo I have acquired only a little new knowledge about non-profit organizations and what they represent for...

Mariely Rivera
Sep 20, 20218 min read
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