The Rich Coast Project uses community storytelling, digital archiving and legal research to document and protect the history, culture, and rights of Afro-descendent communities of coastal Talamanca, Costa Rica.
Katie Beck begins researching the issue during her final semester at Northeastern University School of Law
Katie Beck returns to Caribe Sur after spending the summer studying for and taking the bar examination.
Gathering resources and ideas, writing project proposals, seeking advisors and editing footage
Professor Joel Blanco-Rivera joins the team as an advisor and expert on digital archiving
The Rich Coast Project incorporates as a Massachusetts non-profit corporation.
Law student intern begins collection of documents and stories of local residents
Patrick Offenheiser, documentary filmmaker at Baltazar Productions, joins the team
Kyle Courtney, Esq., joins the team as an advisor and scholar of international legal research and information policy
The Rich Coast Project is selected as a client organization of the Legal Skills in a Social Context Program at Northeastern University School of Law. A group of first-year students perform intensive legal research throughout the academic year.
The Rich Coast Project receives fiscal sponsorship from Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.
Student researchers meet with project director and advisors Emily Yozell and Edwin Patterson
Online fundraising campaign raises over $5,000 for field research trip in early 2014
Student researchers meet with local experts
Katie Beck and Joel Blanco-Rivera are featured speakers at Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Art, Place and Dislocation in the 21st Century
Fundraising event to support field research trip
Law student researchers meet with project director and advisor Emily Yozell for feedback on their research progress
Outreach into communities, identifying participants, building relationships, gathering and organizing existing materials
The team packs up and heads to Costa Rica to begin 10 weeks of field research and story collection
Collecting testimonials, photographs, and information in Puerto Viejo, Cocles, Playa Chiquita, Punta Uva and Manzanillo
A group of 5 local youth will be invited to participate in a photography workshop, take photographs around the theme “Esa es mi chante” / This is my home”, and have their work displayed at the Casa de la Cultura in Puerto Viejo.
A brief trip back to San Jose
Collecting testimonials, photographs and information in Cahuita
More community documentation in Puerto Viejo, Cocles, Playa Chiquita, Punta Uva and Manzanillo
Photographs from the Youth Photography Workshop will be displayed (location TBD)
The team heads back to Boston to begin post-production
We return to Boston to continue strategic planning, developing partnerships, and seeking funding.
Law student researchers deliver their final presentation
We are back in Costa Rica to begin implementation of the community archive project, work with community partners and visit with past participants.
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