DOE Sponsored Virtual Field Trip: Saez Velez Family

Sponsored by the New York City Department of Education’s Office of Family and Community Empowerment.

Explore the role of community in creating change, through the story of the Saez-Velez family, a Puerto Rican family who lived on the Lower East Side for fifty years. Beginning with their arrival in New York in the 1950s, we’ll see how different generations of the Saez-Velez family built community at home, at school, at work, and in the neighborhood.