Taller Entre Aguas (TEA) is a digital humanities lab and project that is expanding the ways Black Puerto Ricans gather and think together, building a theorization of “Black Puerto Rican data,” and creating communities of knowledge around Caribbean and Black DH methods. TEA began as a micro lab within the Mellon-funded Diaspora Solidarities Lab (2022-2024), and is continuing its work as an independent research collaborative through generous funding from the Mellon Foundation. TEA, headed by Dr. Sarah Bruno, is a curated transnational team of junior scholars (Dr. Essah Diaz and Dr. Daniel Morales Armstrong) deeply invested in ancestral reverence. 

As a micro lab, we are interested in immersing ourselves in Black digital humanities and Caribbean digital practices and priorities. We are concerned with the Black lives we input into our spreadsheets. This is witnessed via our websites, making our talleres, or our public-facing workshops and community partnerships one of the most important threads tying us to our mission. It is for and with the (Afro)Puerto Rican community that continues to show up to our events and generate conversations, the elders, the students, and the independent genealogists,  that Taller Entre Aguas continues to code digital memory in the form of spreadsheets and websites from cold paper, sterilized and sanitized by colonial ledger keepers. 

TEA is comprised of three main projects: The Criadas Project, The Libertos Project, and The Registro Project. In collaboration with the Puerto Rican Organization for the Performing Arts (PROPA), TEA will also be the digital arm of the Lugares Históricos Project. Learn more about these projects below.