A key task of the Puerto Rican Studies Initiative is to document the Puerto Rican experience with empirical evidence that can assist community leaders, law and policymakers and others to develop grounded solutions to challenges affecting the residents of Connecticut. The Puerto Rican Studies Initiative brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers with different skills to collect and analyze available data, as well as to design innovative research approaches that can provide in depth understandings of the Puerto Rican experiences. Our research is informed by social, cultural and historical analysis that seeks to contextualize our findings.