Decades of work documenting Rochester’s Puerto Rican community, arts collaborations and bilingual education are now preserved in a University of Rochester archive.
The collection belongs to Henry Ignacio Padrón-Morales, a longtime activist, educator, musician and poet who moved to Rochester as a teenager in the late 1960s and became a leader in Rochester’s Latino community.
“I have grown more accepting of the fact that Rochester is my home,” Padrón-Morales said. “I’m from here. I am from here. I’ve given this place a chunk of my life, and that is important in and of itself to have had that growth because I’ll talk to people and you know they’re from here, they’re everywhere, but after being here this long, I consider Rochester as my home.”…