Pato Project: Build the AI Archive of Boricua Queer Memory
Help us build and launch an AI-powered storytelling platform to collect, protect, and amplify LGBTQIA+ histories from Puerto Ricans . Your gift powers the tools that preserve our stories—forever.
Queer Boricua history is rich, complex—and too often erased. The Pato Project is launching an innovative, self-sustaining system that uses AI to:
- 🧠 Transcribe and translate oral histories
- 🗂️ Classify and archive stories with smart tagging
- 🌍 Share them publicly or privately with educators and researchers
- 🤝 Make storytelling more accessible to every generation, everywhere this initiative will ensure our stories live on, even when we’re not there to tell them.
Read about our iniative here:
https://bit.ly/3ZCrOz0
Why we need your help:
Lean, agile, and community-driven—The Pato Project operates without full-time staff or institutional overhead, ensuring that every dollar goes directly to storytelling, technology, and impact.
What we bring: trusted relationships, convening power, and a proven framework that turns stories into strategy. Our impact is recognised by the company we keep—like our archival partnership with El Centro at Hunter College, where our collection now lives as part of Puerto Rican history, and our succesful programming strategy.
Your donation helps us:
- Build and test the AI platform
- Train it with culturally relevant data
- Launch a multilingual archive
- Offer open-access tools to storytellers and educators
Give today to power the next chapter of queer Puerto Rican memory.
Together, we’re making history—literally.