Virginia SAnchez Korrol is professor emerita at Brooklyn College and author of From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York. She currently chairs the Library and Archives Advisory Board for the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Pedro Juan HernAndez is the senior archivist for the Puerto Rican Diaspora at the Centro Library and Archives at Hunter College and coauthor of Pioneros: Puerto Ricans in New York City 1896-1948.