my father frank espada was born in utuado, puerto rico, in 1930, died in pacifica, california, in 2014as a community organizer. he was a leader. some people would say the leader of the puerto rican community in new york city in the and early 1960's 1970's. that was a community of almost 1 million people. he was also thee creator of something called the puerto rican diaspora documentary project, a photodocumentary of the puerto rican migration, because he was a great documentary photographer. his work is now included in the collections of the smithsonian museum of american history, the smithsonian museum of american art, thee national portrait gallery, and the library of congress. he also published a book by that name "puerto rican diaspora." and so his photographs hung on the walls of our apartment in the linden projects of east new york, brooklyn, from earliest memory, which means they're also hung on the walls of my imagination. and i was able to see from earliest memory and earliest imagination from my youth, the nexus between art and activism, the nexus between craft and commitment