The Island of Disenchantment

Published on January 6, 2021 in Latin[ish] by Hector Luis Alamo

Edil Sepúlveda is an earth scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. A graduate of the University of Puerto Rico School of Law, Mr. Sepúlveda is also co-founder of Boricuas Unidos en la Diáspora, a network of professionals looking to tackle the many crises facing Puerto Ricans on the islands and around the world.

Hector is the editor and publisher of Enclave. A Chicago writer now floating on the edge of Las Vegas, he is also the former deputy editor for Latino Rebels, as well as the former managing editor for Gozamos, a Latino art-activism site based in his home town. He has contributed to RedEye, a Chicago daily geared toward millennials, and La Respuesta, a New York-based site for the Puerto Rican Diaspora, plus a number of publications, including The Huffington Post. He studied history (for some reason) at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where his focus was on ethnic relations in the United States.