In the fall 2024 issue of OHR, Ricia Anne Chansky discussed why the Oral History Lab/Laboratorio de Historia Oral was born at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) on September 20, 2017, in her article, “Oral History and the Climate Crisis: Listening in the Aftermath of Disaster”. Here, she elaborates further about the destructive impact of Hurricane María on her life, on why she feels that oral history has a vital role to play in disaster response and mitigation, especially for frontline communities confronting climate change and colonialist histories, and how the Oral History Association’s Emerging Crisis Research Fund helped her to achieve her project goals. (“Oral History and the Climate Crisis” is an Open Access article.)