Jeanette and Patricia Delgado are miami born sisters who both happen to be principal dancers with the Miami City Ballet. To kick off a celebration of mutual 25th anniversaries, the Heat and the MCB created a co-promotion featuring the sisters and LeBron James and Dwyane Wade.
The Miami HEAT has teamed up with the Miami City Ballet to celebrate 25 years of basketball and ballet. On Sunday, February 10th, the team will welcome Miami City Ballet Principal Dancers, sisters and Miami natives Jeanette and Patricia Delgado, who will be present for the Los Angeles Lakers vs. HEAT game, and who will participate in various in-game activities.
Earlier this season, the two dancers were paired with HEAT superstars LeBron James and Dwyane Wade in a series of unique photos that showcase the world class athleticism of icons from both sports and dance. The artistic photos, which feature the dancers in various ballet poses interacting with the players, underscore the parallels between basketball and dance: grace, fitness, strength and passion. Jeanette, who is paired with James, was heralded by The New York Times as “one of the world’s most marvelous ballerinas.” And Patricia, who is paired with Wade, “can catch the audience’s heart from her first entry and hold it” according to The New York Times.
The photos will serve as a centerpiece of a local and national campaign to promote the arts scene on Miami’s Biscayne Boulevard, and to highlight the world-renowned Miami City Ballet.
“The Miami HEAT plays at AmericanAirlines Arena, which is mere blocks away from one of Miami City Ballet’s home theaters, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts,” said Eric Woolworth, President of The HEAT Group’s Business Operations. “They’re our neighbors and our friends and we’re delighted to celebrate 25 years of being part of Miami’s cultural landscape, and more specifically, the arts and entertainment district located along Biscayne Boulevard.”
During their shared 25-year history, the HEAT has earned two NBA Championships (2006 and 2012) while the Miami City Ballet, among the best ballet companies in the world, has evolved into an internationally acclaimed artistic powerhouse with a repertoire of more than 90 ballets and 45 dancers that hail from all over the world.
"Ballet and basketball are both about grace under pressure and the pursuit of perfection," said Miami City Ballet Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez. "No Miami City Ballet dancer stands alone just as HEAT players can’t win alone. It requires team work—and that's Miami! We are talking about tremendous pride in the place we call home and being the best together."
When Miami Beach’s self-described “people’s mayor,” Matti Herrera Bower, steps down in November, it will cap a more than 30-year career in community affairs and local politics – maybe. She says she hasn’t decided yet whether to run for city commissioner, a position she held for eight years before she was elected in 2007 to the first of three two-terms as mayor. She is a democrat, although city elections are nonpartisan, and is Miami Beach’s first woman mayor and its first Hispanic mayor.
Her final term has been a challenging one as controversy has marred Miami Beach City Hall. The last year has seen corruption probes of several city departments that have resulted in a string of arrests of city employees; longtime City Manager Jorge Gonzalez resigned and the mayor and commissioners are in the process of hiring a replacement – all while the city is taking on one of its largest projects ever: the development of a Miami Beach Convention Center District, never mind the more routine but never boring matters of governing one of the world’s most famous international beach resort communities.
Ms. Herrera Bower was raised in Miami after leaving Cuba with her parents when she was a girl. She eventually became a dental assistant, got married, moved to New York for about 13 years, got divorced, moved back to Miami, and met her second husband, a postal worker, who passed away about two years ago. She has four grown daughters and six grandchildren.
As a local community activist, she started out as a PTA mom, working to save an elementary school from closing, joined the campaign to save the historic Art Deco District in South Beach, and helped create affordable housing for low-income elderly and others. Aside from efforts to improve local schools and providing housing, she has supported social equality initiatives – including the first city-supported gay pride festival – and development of the arts, among other causes.
Mayor Herrera Bower discussed her career and current city issues with Miami Today reporter Scott Blake during an interview at her City Hall office.
When Miami Beach’s self-described “people’s mayor,” Matti Herrera Bower, steps down in November, it will cap a more than 30-year career in community affairs and local politics – maybe. She says she hasn’t decided yet whether to run for city commissioner, a position she held for eight years before she was elected in 2007 to the first of three two-terms as mayor. She is a democrat, although city elections are nonpartisan, and is Miami Beach’s first woman mayor and its first Hispanic mayor.
Her final term has been a challenging one as controversy has marred Miami Beach City Hall. The last year has seen corruption probes of several city departments that have resulted in a string of arrests of city employees; longtime City Manager Jorge Gonzalez resigned and the mayor and commissioners are in the process of hiring a replacement – all while the city is taking on one of its largest projects ever: the development of a Miami Beach Convention Center District, never mind the more routine but never boring matters of governing one of the world’s most famous international beach resort communities.
Ms. Herrera Bower was raised in Miami after leaving Cuba with her parents when she was a girl. She eventually became a dental assistant, got married, moved to New York for about 13 years, got divorced, moved back to Miami, and met her second husband, a postal worker, who passed away about two years ago. She has four grown daughters and six grandchildren.
As a local community activist, she started out as a PTA mom, working to save an elementary school from closing, joined the campaign to save the historic Art Deco District in South Beach, and helped create affordable housing for low-income elderly and others. Aside from efforts to improve local schools and providing housing, she has supported social equality initiatives – including the first city-supported gay pride festival – and development of the arts, among other causes.
Mayor Herrera Bower discussed her career and current city issues with Miami Today reporter Scott Blake during an interview at her City Hall office.
When Miami Beach’s self-described “people’s mayor,” Matti Herrera Bower, steps down in November, it will cap a more than 30-year career in community affairs and local politics – maybe. She says she hasn’t decided yet whether to run for city commissioner, a position she held for eight years before she was elected in 2007 to the first of three two-terms as mayor. She is a democrat, although city elections are nonpartisan, and is Miami Beach’s first woman mayor and its first Hispanic mayor.
Her final term has been a challenging one as controversy has marred Miami Beach City Hall. The last year has seen corruption probes of several city departments that have resulted in a string of arrests of city employees; longtime City Manager Jorge Gonzalez resigned and the mayor and commissioners are in the process of hiring a replacement – all while the city is taking on one of its largest projects ever: the development of a Miami Beach Convention Center District, never mind the more routine but never boring matters of governing one of the world’s most famous international beach resort communities.
Ms. Herrera Bower was raised in Miami after leaving Cuba with her parents when she was a girl. She eventually became a dental assistant, got married, moved to New York for about 13 years, got divorced, moved back to Miami, and met her second husband, a postal worker, who passed away about two years ago. She has four grown daughters and six grandchildren.
As a local community activist, she started out as a PTA mom, working to save an elementary school from closing, joined the campaign to save the historic Art Deco District in South Beach, and helped create affordable housing for low-income elderly and others. Aside from efforts to improve local schools and providing housing, she has supported social equality initiatives – including the first city-supported gay pride festival – and development of the arts, among other causes.
Mayor Herrera Bower discussed her career and current city issues with Miami Today reporter Scott Blake during an interview at her City Hall office.
Held at the New World Symphony's new home, the winners of the Knight Arts Challenge are announced.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has announced $23 million in new funding for the arts in South Florida. The support brings Knight Foundation’s total investment in South Florida’s diverse and dynamic cultural community to $86 million in six years.
Knight’s initiative supports both established institutions and grassroots organizations as a way to engage South Floridians and weave culture into people’s everyday lives. It includes funding for key arts institutions, and for the continuation of the Knight Arts Challenge, a contest open to the entire South Florida community that for five years has allowed artists to experiment and innovate even through a weak economy.
“The arts not only inspire and challenge, they help create the shared experiences that connect people to one another and the places they live,” said Alberto Ibargüen, president of Knight Foundation. “The success of our earlier initiative in Miami has encouraged us to expand to Philadelphia and Detroit and, now, to take it to the next level in Miami.”
The Miami announcement follows a recent, $19.25 million Knight Foundation investment in the Detroit arts scene, backing the cultural initiatives that are helping shape the future of that city.
In South Florida, the investment includes:
Support for leading cultural institutions ($14 million). Funding will engage and inspire audiences in new ways:
Miami City Ballet ($5 million): In its 28 years, the ballet has earned a national reputation. New funding will help the ballet increase its outreach and add new works to its repertoire, including new commissions.
The Wolfsonian-FIU ($5 million): The museum holds one of the most important collections of art and design objects from the modern era. With this new funding, The Wolfsonian will develop dynamic programming to engage South Florida residents and build greater access to its online collection.
Cleveland Orchestra ($2 million): The organization that has become Miami’s winter symphony expands its subscription season to four weekends of concerts and significantly increases its educational outreach programs to students.
Arts education ($1 million): Miami artists often begin their careers at one of two schools, the Design and Architecture High School and the New World School of the Arts. To expand the horizons of the next generation, new funding will send students on cultural field trips to New York City and Europe.
Borscht Film Festival ($500,000): The homegrown festival has put Miami into the national conversation on independent filmmaking, with works shown at 40 international film festivals. New support will help the festival expand its efforts and create more “only in Miami” stories.
Miami International Film Festival ($500,000): The festival helps make the city a destination for first-class cinematic creations. Knight Foundation will further the expansion of Ibero-American film through awards at this annual event.
Continuing the Knight Arts Challenge contest ($9 million) – Each year, the challenge asks everyone in South Florida for ideas to enhance the South Florida arts. The contest has just three rules: Projects must be about the arts; take place in or benefit South Florida and match Knight’s funding.
The best ideas receive Knight Foundation funds. Anyone can apply: the challenge purposefully seeks out nontraditional grantees. In fact, 6,601 ideas have been received over the past five years. More than half of these ideas came from individuals, businesses, and small organizations that don't have 501(c)(3) non-profit status.
With Knight Foundation’s new commitment, the contest will offer funding to organizations of all sizes – from businesses to individual artists – through 2015.
Knight Foundation is extending the contest because of its success: A new, independent evaluation of Knight Foundation’s impact found that the challenge has helped fuel Miami’s cultural scene. In particular, the challenge has helped small projects with an entrepreneurial spirit take shape. For example:
Additionally, prior funding has brought cutting-edge exhibitions to North Miami’s Museum of Contemporary Art, supported a new media program that includes the signature “Wallcasts” at the acclaimed New World Symphony campus, and will bring every Miami-Dade third grader annually to the soon-to-open Perez Art Museum Miami on the downtown waterfront.
“Miami’s creativity is limitless, Knight Foundation’s arts initiative and its Knight Arts Challenge have acted as its conduit – pulling the best ideas out of the city’s most creative thinkers, and helping them flourish. In a truly creative town like Miami, everybody should be able to participate, to dream and to ultimately see their passions through to reality,” said Dennis Scholl, Knight Foundation’s vice president for arts.
For more information about Knight Foundation’s arts program, visit KnightArts.org.
About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. The foundation believes that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged. For more, visit knightfoundation.org.
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TRADING PLACES 2 AT MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Knight Exhibition Series
September 13 – November 11, 2012
Artists swap their studios for spaces in MOCA galleries
Meet the artist panel discussions on July 18 and 25, 2012
In 2005, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami launched an experimental program called Trading Places in which South Florida artists swapped their studio spaces for space in the museum’s galleries for the period of two months. From September 13 through November 11, 2012, MOCA has invited five South Florida artists: Dona Altemus, Onajide Shabaka, Magnus Sigurdarson, Rick Ulysse and Antonia Wright to participate in Trading Places 2, the second installment of this program. Trading Places 2 is part of MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series program.
The emphasis of Trading Places 2 is on the research and development of projects rather than specifically working toward an exhibition, although works may be exhibited or performed at the museum. The artists selected have reached critical moments in their careers when they can most benefit from the opportunity to work with MOCA’s curatorial and technical staff.
This program provides the artists with studio spacein the museum’s galleries, materials and technical assistants, and opportunities to interact, respond to and investigate each others’ practices and engage in periodic discussions with the public.
A new component of Trading Places 2 is the role these artists will play mentoring the teens and young adults enrolled in MOCA’s free afterschool educationclasses and intern program, as part of the MOCA Art Institute, MOCA’s extensive education program for students of all ages.
Trading Places 2 is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami under the direction of MOCA Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater. It is made possible by MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Endowment.
Rick Ulysse, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1983 and grew up in Philadelphia where he attended Tyler School of Art. Newly relocated to Miami, he is especially interested in continuing his research for his latest series of drawings based on Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution. Imagination, cartoon realism, ethnography and historical fiction all combine in a non-linear fashion and avoids direct story telling in the traditional sense. Ulysse notes that he uses “an open form to negotiate/infuse the everyday and current events into a broad conversation about history. Using this process allows me to garner a variety of sources from Japanese anime and Walt Disney, to Christian iconography and African symbolism.” One of the aims of his work is “to communicate to my younger cousins about Haitian history and identity. Theirs is a generation that views cartoons as reality.” He will have the opportunity to work directly with the teens and young adults in MOCA education programs, approximately 70 percent of whom are Haitian, and he will have access to South Florida’s centers for Haitian historical research, including the Haitian Historical Museum and Archives in North Miami.
Magnus Sigurdarson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1966. He will further explore the concept of identity and his search for “Miami Melancholy,” which has been ongoing since his move to Miami in 2004. “As a true blood Northerner with deep roots in Melancholy and the poetic enclose or angst as an artistic motivator, I have been searching for the ‘Tropical Melancholy’ and the ‘Subliminal in the flatness of Florida.’ This has of course opened my heart to all the other emotions,” Sigurdarson notes. In Iceland, Sigurdarson mentored many younger artists, including Ragnar Kjartansson who had a recent exhibition at MOCA.
Clearwater notes, “One of the essential aspects of any art community is the interaction between its artists. Trading Places helps to forge a stronger relationship between multi-generational artists and the students they mentor and to engage the public in the creative process.”
Clearwater notes, “One of the essential aspects of any art community is the interaction between its artists. Trading Places helps to forge a stronger relationship between multi-generational artists and the students they mentor and to engage the public in the creative process.”
About Trading Places
This program was launched in 2005 with Miami artists Salvatore La Rosa, Maria Martnez-Canas in collaboration with Alaska artist Kim Brown, and Frances Trombly. The artists occupied the museum’s galleries from July 29 to September 4, 2005.
The Museum of Contemporary Art is located at 770 NE 125th Street, North Miami, Florida. For information, please visit www.mocanomi.org or call 305 893 6211.
Hours and Admission: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday - 11 am to 5 pm; Wednesday from 1–9 pm; and Sunday from noon to 5 pm. MOCA’s galleries are also open on the last Friday of each month from 7–10 pm in conjunction with Jazz at MOCA performances. Admission is free for MOCA members, North Miami residents and City employees and children under 12; $5 for adults; $3 for seniors and students with ID.
About the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
The mission of the Museum of Contemporary Art is to make contemporary art accessible to diverse audiences - especially under-served populations - by exploring the art of our time and its relationship to a broader cultural context. MOCA is internationally recognized as a force in defining new trends and directions in contemporary art. The museum originates most of its own exhibitions, presenting an exciting mix of both emerging and legendary artists.
Visitors from around the world are drawn to its permanent collection reflecting the most important developments in contemporary art.

MOCA presents a continuous calendar of lectures by renowned artists and critics, film screenings, concerts, and cutting edge performances. Its MOCA Art Institute has attracted nationwide attention for highly original education and outreach programs that make contemporary art accessible, understandable, and enjoyable to people of all ages.
Through enrichment programs, cultural travel and social events, MOCA members are provided dynamic opportunities to enhance their understanding of contemporary art and develop relationships with collectors and art enthusiasts from around the world.
Architectural plans for the expansion and renovation of MOCA's current facility will more than double its overall space to 54,000 square feet and more than triple its current exhibition space to 23,150 square feet. The expansion's concept plan is designed by Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman + Associates. The expansion will allow for ongoing access to MOCA's permanent collection, provide an education wing for classes and public programs, expanded space to present concurrent exhibitions, new art storage and enhanced public areas.
In 2007, MOCA received a $5 million endowment from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to establish the MOCA Knight Exhibition Endowment. The endowment is part of a $460 million philanthropic initiative created by Knight Foundation to help transform South Florida by bringing the community together through the arts. The Knight Arts Challenge includes three institutional endowments and an open-invitation community contest to fund the best ideas for the arts. It enables MOCA to present exhibitions and multi-media projects each year featuring the work of emerging and experimental artists, as well as to develop innovative public and education programs. The Knight Foundation Endowment makes MOCA one of the few contemporary art museums in the nation to have a dedicated source of funding of this nature. Since its launch in December 2008, MOCA's Knight Exhibition Series has featured the exhibitions: Anri Sala: Purchase Not by Moonlight (2008-09), The Possibility of an Island (2008-09), Luis Gispert (2009), The Reach of Realism (2009-10), Ceal Floyer: Auto Focus (2010), Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image (2010). Modify, as Needed (2011), Mark Handforth: Rolling Stop and Ragnar Kjartansson: Song. For more, visit www.KnightArts.org.
Exhibitions and programs at MOCA are made possible through grants from the City of North Miami. Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts. With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami is accredited by the American Association of Museums.
TRADING PLACES 2 AT MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Knight Exhibition Series
September 13 – November 11, 2012
Artists swap their studios for spaces in MOCA galleries
Meet the artist panel discussions on July 18 and 25, 2012
In 2005, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami launched an experimental program called Trading Places in which South Florida artists swapped their studio spaces for space in the museum’s galleries for the period of two months. From September 13 through November 11, 2012, MOCA has invited five South Florida artists: Dona Altemus, Onajide Shabaka, Magnus Sigurdarson, Rick Ulysse and Antonia Wright to participate in Trading Places 2, the second installment of this program. Trading Places 2 is part of MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series program.
The emphasis of Trading Places 2 is on the research and development of projects rather than specifically working toward an exhibition, although works may be exhibited or performed at the museum. The artists selected have reached critical moments in their careers when they can most benefit from the opportunity to work with MOCA’s curatorial and technical staff.
This program provides the artists with studio spacein the museum’s galleries, materials and technical assistants, and opportunities to interact, respond to and investigate each others’ practices and engage in periodic discussions with the public.
A new component of Trading Places 2 is the role these artists will play mentoring the teens and young adults enrolled in MOCA’s free afterschool educationclasses and intern program, as part of the MOCA Art Institute, MOCA’s extensive education program for students of all ages.
Trading Places 2 is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami under the direction of MOCA Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater. It is made possible by MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Endowment.
Rick Ulysse, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1983 and grew up in Philadelphia where he attended Tyler School of Art. Newly relocated to Miami, he is especially interested in continuing his research for his latest series of drawings based on Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution. Imagination, cartoon realism, ethnography and historical fiction all combine in a non-linear fashion and avoids direct story telling in the traditional sense. Ulysse notes that he uses “an open form to negotiate/infuse the everyday and current events into a broad conversation about history. Using this process allows me to garner a variety of sources from Japanese anime and Walt Disney, to Christian iconography and African symbolism.” One of the aims of his work is “to communicate to my younger cousins about Haitian history and identity. Theirs is a generation that views cartoons as reality.” He will have the opportunity to work directly with the teens and young adults in MOCA education programs, approximately 70 percent of whom are Haitian, and he will have access to South Florida’s centers for Haitian historical research, including the Haitian Historical Museum and Archives in North Miami.
Magnus Sigurdarson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1966. He will further explore the concept of identity and his search for “Miami Melancholy,” which has been ongoing since his move to Miami in 2004. “As a true blood Northerner with deep roots in Melancholy and the poetic enclose or angst as an artistic motivator, I have been searching for the ‘Tropical Melancholy’ and the ‘Subliminal in the flatness of Florida.’ This has of course opened my heart to all the other emotions,” Sigurdarson notes. In Iceland, Sigurdarson mentored many younger artists, including Ragnar Kjartansson who had a recent exhibition at MOCA.
Clearwater notes, “One of the essential aspects of any art community is the interaction between its artists. Trading Places helps to forge a stronger relationship between multi-generational artists and the students they mentor and to engage the public in the creative process.”
Clearwater notes, “One of the essential aspects of any art community is the interaction between its artists. Trading Places helps to forge a stronger relationship between multi-generational artists and the students they mentor and to engage the public in the creative process.”
About Trading Places
This program was launched in 2005 with Miami artists Salvatore La Rosa, Maria Martnez-Canas in collaboration with Alaska artist Kim Brown, and Frances Trombly. The artists occupied the museum’s galleries from July 29 to September 4, 2005.
The Museum of Contemporary Art is located at 770 NE 125th Street, North Miami, Florida. For information, please visit www.mocanomi.org or call 305 893 6211.
Hours and Admission: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday - 11 am to 5 pm; Wednesday from 1–9 pm; and Sunday from noon to 5 pm. MOCA’s galleries are also open on the last Friday of each month from 7–10 pm in conjunction with Jazz at MOCA performances. Admission is free for MOCA members, North Miami residents and City employees and children under 12; $5 for adults; $3 for seniors and students with ID.
About the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
The mission of the Museum of Contemporary Art is to make contemporary art accessible to diverse audiences - especially under-served populations - by exploring the art of our time and its relationship to a broader cultural context. MOCA is internationally recognized as a force in defining new trends and directions in contemporary art. The museum originates most of its own exhibitions, presenting an exciting mix of both emerging and legendary artists.
Visitors from around the world are drawn to its permanent collection reflecting the most important developments in contemporary art.

MOCA presents a continuous calendar of lectures by renowned artists and critics, film screenings, concerts, and cutting edge performances. Its MOCA Art Institute has attracted nationwide attention for highly original education and outreach programs that make contemporary art accessible, understandable, and enjoyable to people of all ages.
Through enrichment programs, cultural travel and social events, MOCA members are provided dynamic opportunities to enhance their understanding of contemporary art and develop relationships with collectors and art enthusiasts from around the world.
Architectural plans for the expansion and renovation of MOCA's current facility will more than double its overall space to 54,000 square feet and more than triple its current exhibition space to 23,150 square feet. The expansion's concept plan is designed by Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman + Associates. The expansion will allow for ongoing access to MOCA's permanent collection, provide an education wing for classes and public programs, expanded space to present concurrent exhibitions, new art storage and enhanced public areas.
In 2007, MOCA received a $5 million endowment from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to establish the MOCA Knight Exhibition Endowment. The endowment is part of a $460 million philanthropic initiative created by Knight Foundation to help transform South Florida by bringing the community together through the arts. The Knight Arts Challenge includes three institutional endowments and an open-invitation community contest to fund the best ideas for the arts. It enables MOCA to present exhibitions and multi-media projects each year featuring the work of emerging and experimental artists, as well as to develop innovative public and education programs. The Knight Foundation Endowment makes MOCA one of the few contemporary art museums in the nation to have a dedicated source of funding of this nature. Since its launch in December 2008, MOCA's Knight Exhibition Series has featured the exhibitions: Anri Sala: Purchase Not by Moonlight (2008-09), The Possibility of an Island (2008-09), Luis Gispert (2009), The Reach of Realism (2009-10), Ceal Floyer: Auto Focus (2010), Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image (2010). Modify, as Needed (2011), Mark Handforth: Rolling Stop and Ragnar Kjartansson: Song. For more, visit www.KnightArts.org.
Exhibitions and programs at MOCA are made possible through grants from the City of North Miami. Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts. With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami is accredited by the American Association of Museums.
TRADING PLACES 2 AT MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Knight Exhibition Series
September 13 – November 11, 2012
Artists swap their studios for spaces in MOCA galleries
Meet the artist panel discussions on July 18 and 25, 2012
In 2005, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami launched an experimental program called Trading Places in which South Florida artists swapped their studio spaces for space in the museum’s galleries for the period of two months. From September 13 through November 11, 2012, MOCA has invited five South Florida artists: Dona Altemus, Onajide Shabaka, Magnus Sigurdarson, Rick Ulysse and Antonia Wright to participate in Trading Places 2, the second installment of this program. Trading Places 2 is part of MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series program.
The emphasis of Trading Places 2 is on the research and development of projects rather than specifically working toward an exhibition, although works may be exhibited or performed at the museum. The artists selected have reached critical moments in their careers when they can most benefit from the opportunity to work with MOCA’s curatorial and technical staff.
This program provides the artists with studio spacein the museum’s galleries, materials and technical assistants, and opportunities to interact, respond to and investigate each others’ practices and engage in periodic discussions with the public.
A new component of Trading Places 2 is the role these artists will play mentoring the teens and young adults enrolled in MOCA’s free afterschool educationclasses and intern program, as part of the MOCA Art Institute, MOCA’s extensive education program for students of all ages.
Trading Places 2 is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami under the direction of MOCA Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater. It is made possible by MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Endowment.
Dona Altemus, the youngest artist in Trading Places 2, is a 2012 graduate of New World School of the Arts, where she earned her BFA with a concentration in painting. For Trading Places 2, Altemus will investigate installation as a tool and explore spatial relationships that are activated when separate works interact. Altemus first came to Clearwater’s attention when she presented her work at MOCA’s unique Artist Critique program held twice a year, in which approximately 15 students from South Florida art schools present their work to MOCA’s curators for critique at each session. Clearwater notes, “I was impressed by the initial presentation and the maturity of Altemus’s vision. Trading Places will provide her with the opportunity to determine her post-graduate path.”
Onajide Shabaka’s work makes references to the anthropological, geological and biological through a visual aesthetic that is challenging and visceral, with a grounding in African Atlantic culture. Since 1997, his work has largely moved into the Florida wetlands, upper Minnesota and Oregon woodlands. He will use Trading Places to bring his art practice back into the formal gallery through photography, drawing and sculpture of natural and industrial materials. Bonnie Clearwater first worked with Shabaka when she selected him for the exhibition New Art: South Florida at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale in 1993, and notes that his recent body of work based on botanical studies conducted in South Florida marks a new path for him to develop. “With his extensiveexperience teaching at the college and university level, Shabaka will play an important mentoring role for the teen and young adult students in MOCA’s afterschool programs,” she said.
Antonia Wright’s project will reflect her background in performance art within the mediums of video, photography and installation to explore the environment of MOCA. A poet and photographer, Wright introduces social critique into a broad conceptual framework with imagination and conviction. She received an M.F.A. in poetry from the New School University in New York and studied at the International Center of Photography. Wright was one of the finalists in MOCA’s Optic Nerve XIII film festival in 2011.
Clearwater notes, “One of the essential aspects of any art community is the interaction between its artists. Trading Places helps to forge a stronger relationship between multi-generational artists and the students they mentor and to engage the public in the creative process.”
About Trading Places
This program was launched in 2005 with Miami artists Salvatore La Rosa, Maria Martnez-Canas in collaboration with Alaska artist Kim Brown, and Frances Trombly. The artists occupied the museum’s galleries from July 29 to September 4, 2005.
The Museum of Contemporary Art is located at 770 NE 125th Street, North Miami, Florida. For information, please visit www.mocanomi.org or call 305 893 6211.
Hours and Admission: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday - 11 am to 5 pm; Wednesday from 1–9 pm; and Sunday from noon to 5 pm. MOCA’s galleries are also open on the last Friday of each month from 7–10 pm in conjunction with Jazz at MOCA performances. Admission is free for MOCA members, North Miami residents and City employees and children under 12; $5 for adults; $3 for seniors and students with ID.
About the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
The mission of the Museum of Contemporary Art is to make contemporary art accessible to diverse audiences - especially under-served populations - by exploring the art of our time and its relationship to a broader cultural context. MOCA is internationally recognized as a force in defining new trends and directions in contemporary art. The museum originates most of its own exhibitions, presenting an exciting mix of both emerging and legendary artists.
Visitors from around the world are drawn to its permanent collection reflecting the most important developments in contemporary art.

MOCA presents a continuous calendar of lectures by renowned artists and critics, film screenings, concerts, and cutting edge performances. Its MOCA Art Institute has attracted nationwide attention for highly original education and outreach programs that make contemporary art accessible, understandable, and enjoyable to people of all ages.
Through enrichment programs, cultural travel and social events, MOCA members are provided dynamic opportunities to enhance their understanding of contemporary art and develop relationships with collectors and art enthusiasts from around the world.
Architectural plans for the expansion and renovation of MOCA's current facility will more than double its overall space to 54,000 square feet and more than triple its current exhibition space to 23,150 square feet. The expansion's concept plan is designed by Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman + Associates. The expansion will allow for ongoing access to MOCA's permanent collection, provide an education wing for classes and public programs, expanded space to present concurrent exhibitions, new art storage and enhanced public areas.
In 2007, MOCA received a $5 million endowment from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to establish the MOCA Knight Exhibition Endowment. The endowment is part of a $460 million philanthropic initiative created by Knight Foundation to help transform South Florida by bringing the community together through the arts. The Knight Arts Challenge includes three institutional endowments and an open-invitation community contest to fund the best ideas for the arts. It enables MOCA to present exhibitions and multi-media projects each year featuring the work of emerging and experimental artists, as well as to develop innovative public and education programs. The Knight Foundation Endowment makes MOCA one of the few contemporary art museums in the nation to have a dedicated source of funding of this nature. Since its launch in December 2008, MOCA's Knight Exhibition Series has featured the exhibitions: Anri Sala: Purchase Not by Moonlight (2008-09), The Possibility of an Island (2008-09), Luis Gispert (2009), The Reach of Realism (2009-10), Ceal Floyer: Auto Focus (2010), Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image (2010). Modify, as Needed (2011), Mark Handforth: Rolling Stop and Ragnar Kjartansson: Song. For more, visit www.KnightArts.org.
Exhibitions and programs at MOCA are made possible through grants from the City of North Miami. Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts. With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami is accredited by the American Association of Museums.
TRADING PLACES 2 AT MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Knight Exhibition Series
September 13 – November 11, 2012
Artists swap their studios for spaces in MOCA galleries
Meet the artist panel discussions on July 18 and 25, 2012
In 2005, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami launched an experimental program called Trading Places in which South Florida artists swapped their studio spaces for space in the museum’s galleries for the period of two months. From September 13 through November 11, 2012, MOCA has invited five South Florida artists: Dona Altemus, Onajide Shabaka, Magnus Sigurdarson, Rick Ulysse and Antonia Wright to participate in Trading Places 2, the second installment of this program. Trading Places 2 is part of MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series program.
The emphasis of Trading Places 2 is on the research and development of projects rather than specifically working toward an exhibition, although works may be exhibited or performed at the museum. The artists selected have reached critical moments in their careers when they can most benefit from the opportunity to work with MOCA’s curatorial and technical staff.
This program provides the artists with studio spacein the museum’s galleries, materials and technical assistants, and opportunities to interact, respond to and investigate each others’ practices and engage in periodic discussions with the public.
A new component of Trading Places 2 is the role these artists will play mentoring the teens and young adults enrolled in MOCA’s free afterschool educationclasses and intern program, as part of the MOCA Art Institute, MOCA’s extensive education program for students of all ages.
Trading Places 2 is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami under the direction of MOCA Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater. It is made possible by MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Endowment.
Dona Altemus, the youngest artist in Trading Places 2, is a 2012 graduate of New World School of the Arts, where she earned her BFA with a concentration in painting. For Trading Places 2, Altemus will investigate installation as a tool and explore spatial relationships that are activated when separate works interact. Altemus first came to Clearwater’s attention when she presented her work at MOCA’s unique Artist Critique program held twice a year, in which approximately 15 students from South Florida art schools present their work to MOCA’s curators for critique at each session. Clearwater notes, “I was impressed by the initial presentation and the maturity of Altemus’s vision. Trading Places will provide her with the opportunity to determine her post-graduate path.”
Onajide Shabaka’s work makes references to the anthropological, geological and biological through a visual aesthetic that is challenging and visceral, with a grounding in African Atlantic culture. Since 1997, his work has largely moved into the Florida wetlands, upper Minnesota and Oregon woodlands. He will use Trading Places to bring his art practice back into the formal gallery through photography, drawing and sculpture of natural and industrial materials. Bonnie Clearwater first worked with Shabaka when she selected him for the exhibition New Art: South Florida at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale in 1993, and notes that his recent body of work based on botanical studies conducted in South Florida marks a new path for him to develop. “With his extensiveexperience teaching at the college and university level, Shabaka will play an important mentoring role for the teen and young adult students in MOCA’s afterschool programs,” she said.
Antonia Wright’s project will reflect her background in performance art within the mediums of video, photography and installation to explore the environment of MOCA. A poet and photographer, Wright introduces social critique into a broad conceptual framework with imagination and conviction. She received an M.F.A. in poetry from the New School University in New York and studied at the International Center of Photography. Wright was one of the finalists in MOCA’s Optic Nerve XIII film festival in 2011.
Clearwater notes, “One of the essential aspects of any art community is the interaction between its artists. Trading Places helps to forge a stronger relationship between multi-generational artists and the students they mentor and to engage the public in the creative process.”
About Trading Places
This program was launched in 2005 with Miami artists Salvatore La Rosa, Maria Martnez-Canas in collaboration with Alaska artist Kim Brown, and Frances Trombly. The artists occupied the museum’s galleries from July 29 to September 4, 2005.
The Museum of Contemporary Art is located at 770 NE 125th Street, North Miami, Florida. For information, please visit www.mocanomi.org or call 305 893 6211.
Hours and Admission: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday - 11 am to 5 pm; Wednesday from 1–9 pm; and Sunday from noon to 5 pm. MOCA’s galleries are also open on the last Friday of each month from 7–10 pm in conjunction with Jazz at MOCA performances. Admission is free for MOCA members, North Miami residents and City employees and children under 12; $5 for adults; $3 for seniors and students with ID.
About the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
The mission of the Museum of Contemporary Art is to make contemporary art accessible to diverse audiences - especially under-served populations - by exploring the art of our time and its relationship to a broader cultural context. MOCA is internationally recognized as a force in defining new trends and directions in contemporary art. The museum originates most of its own exhibitions, presenting an exciting mix of both emerging and legendary artists.
Visitors from around the world are drawn to its permanent collection reflecting the most important developments in contemporary art.

MOCA presents a continuous calendar of lectures by renowned artists and critics, film screenings, concerts, and cutting edge performances. Its MOCA Art Institute has attracted nationwide attention for highly original education and outreach programs that make contemporary art accessible, understandable, and enjoyable to people of all ages.
Through enrichment programs, cultural travel and social events, MOCA members are provided dynamic opportunities to enhance their understanding of contemporary art and develop relationships with collectors and art enthusiasts from around the world.
Architectural plans for the expansion and renovation of MOCA's current facility will more than double its overall space to 54,000 square feet and more than triple its current exhibition space to 23,150 square feet. The expansion's concept plan is designed by Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman + Associates. The expansion will allow for ongoing access to MOCA's permanent collection, provide an education wing for classes and public programs, expanded space to present concurrent exhibitions, new art storage and enhanced public areas.
In 2007, MOCA received a $5 million endowment from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to establish the MOCA Knight Exhibition Endowment. The endowment is part of a $460 million philanthropic initiative created by Knight Foundation to help transform South Florida by bringing the community together through the arts. The Knight Arts Challenge includes three institutional endowments and an open-invitation community contest to fund the best ideas for the arts. It enables MOCA to present exhibitions and multi-media projects each year featuring the work of emerging and experimental artists, as well as to develop innovative public and education programs. The Knight Foundation Endowment makes MOCA one of the few contemporary art museums in the nation to have a dedicated source of funding of this nature. Since its launch in December 2008, MOCA's Knight Exhibition Series has featured the exhibitions: Anri Sala: Purchase Not by Moonlight (2008-09), The Possibility of an Island (2008-09), Luis Gispert (2009), The Reach of Realism (2009-10), Ceal Floyer: Auto Focus (2010), Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image (2010). Modify, as Needed (2011), Mark Handforth: Rolling Stop and Ragnar Kjartansson: Song. For more, visit www.KnightArts.org.
Exhibitions and programs at MOCA are made possible through grants from the City of North Miami. Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts. With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami is accredited by the American Association of Museums.
TRADING PLACES 2 AT MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Knight Exhibition Series
September 13 – November 11, 2012
Artists swap their studios for spaces in MOCA galleries
Meet the artist panel discussions on July 18 and 25, 2012
In 2005, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami launched an experimental program called Trading Places in which South Florida artists swapped their studio spaces for space in the museum’s galleries for the period of two months. From September 13 through November 11, 2012, MOCA has invited five South Florida artists: Dona Altemus, Onajide Shabaka, Magnus Sigurdarson, Rick Ulysse and Antonia Wright to participate in Trading Places 2, the second installment of this program. Trading Places 2 is part of MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series program.
The emphasis of Trading Places 2 is on the research and development of projects rather than specifically working toward an exhibition, although works may be exhibited or performed at the museum. The artists selected have reached critical moments in their careers when they can most benefit from the opportunity to work with MOCA’s curatorial and technical staff.
This program provides the artists with studio spacein the museum’s galleries, materials and technical assistants, and opportunities to interact, respond to and investigate each others’ practices and engage in periodic discussions with the public.
A new component of Trading Places 2 is the role these artists will play mentoring the teens and young adults enrolled in MOCA’s free afterschool educationclasses and intern program, as part of the MOCA Art Institute, MOCA’s extensive education program for students of all ages.
Trading Places 2 is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami under the direction of MOCA Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater. It is made possible by MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Endowment.
Dona Altemus, the youngest artist in Trading Places 2, is a 2012 graduate of New World School of the Arts, where she earned her BFA with a concentration in painting. For Trading Places 2, Altemus will investigate installation as a tool and explore spatial relationships that are activated when separate works interact. Altemus first came to Clearwater’s attention when she presented her work at MOCA’s unique Artist Critique program held twice a year, in which approximately 15 students from South Florida art schools present their work to MOCA’s curators for critique at each session. Clearwater notes, “I was impressed by the initial presentation and the maturity of Altemus’s vision. Trading Places will provide her with the opportunity to determine her post-graduate path.”
Onajide Shabaka’s work makes references to the anthropological, geological and biological through a visual aesthetic that is challenging and visceral, with a grounding in African Atlantic culture. Since 1997, his work has largely moved into the Florida wetlands, upper Minnesota and Oregon woodlands. He will use Trading Places to bring his art practice back into the formal gallery through photography, drawing and sculpture of natural and industrial materials. Bonnie Clearwater first worked with Shabaka when she selected him for the exhibition New Art: South Florida at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale in 1993, and notes that his recent body of work based on botanical studies conducted in South Florida marks a new path for him to develop. “With his extensiveexperience teaching at the college and university level, Shabaka will play an important mentoring role for the teen and young adult students in MOCA’s afterschool programs,” she said.
Antonia Wright’s project will reflect her background in performance art within the mediums of video, photography and installation to explore the environment of MOCA. A poet and photographer, Wright introduces social critique into a broad conceptual framework with imagination and conviction. She received an M.F.A. in poetry from the New School University in New York and studied at the International Center of Photography. Wright was one of the finalists in MOCA’s Optic Nerve XIII film festival in 2011.
Clearwater notes, “One of the essential aspects of any art community is the interaction between its artists. Trading Places helps to forge a stronger relationship between multi-generational artists and the students they mentor and to engage the public in the creative process.”
About Trading Places
This program was launched in 2005 with Miami artists Salvatore La Rosa, Maria Martnez-Canas in collaboration with Alaska artist Kim Brown, and Frances Trombly. The artists occupied the museum’s galleries from July 29 to September 4, 2005.
The Museum of Contemporary Art is located at 770 NE 125th Street, North Miami, Florida. For information, please visit www.mocanomi.org or call 305 893 6211.
Hours and Admission: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday - 11 am to 5 pm; Wednesday from 1–9 pm; and Sunday from noon to 5 pm. MOCA’s galleries are also open on the last Friday of each month from 7–10 pm in conjunction with Jazz at MOCA performances. Admission is free for MOCA members, North Miami residents and City employees and children under 12; $5 for adults; $3 for seniors and students with ID.
About the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
The mission of the Museum of Contemporary Art is to make contemporary art accessible to diverse audiences - especially under-served populations - by exploring the art of our time and its relationship to a broader cultural context. MOCA is internationally recognized as a force in defining new trends and directions in contemporary art. The museum originates most of its own exhibitions, presenting an exciting mix of both emerging and legendary artists.
Visitors from around the world are drawn to its permanent collection reflecting the most important developments in contemporary art.

MOCA presents a continuous calendar of lectures by renowned artists and critics, film screenings, concerts, and cutting edge performances. Its MOCA Art Institute has attracted nationwide attention for highly original education and outreach programs that make contemporary art accessible, understandable, and enjoyable to people of all ages.
Through enrichment programs, cultural travel and social events, MOCA members are provided dynamic opportunities to enhance their understanding of contemporary art and develop relationships with collectors and art enthusiasts from around the world.
Architectural plans for the expansion and renovation of MOCA's current facility will more than double its overall space to 54,000 square feet and more than triple its current exhibition space to 23,150 square feet. The expansion's concept plan is designed by Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman + Associates. The expansion will allow for ongoing access to MOCA's permanent collection, provide an education wing for classes and public programs, expanded space to present concurrent exhibitions, new art storage and enhanced public areas.
In 2007, MOCA received a $5 million endowment from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to establish the MOCA Knight Exhibition Endowment. The endowment is part of a $460 million philanthropic initiative created by Knight Foundation to help transform South Florida by bringing the community together through the arts. The Knight Arts Challenge includes three institutional endowments and an open-invitation community contest to fund the best ideas for the arts. It enables MOCA to present exhibitions and multi-media projects each year featuring the work of emerging and experimental artists, as well as to develop innovative public and education programs. The Knight Foundation Endowment makes MOCA one of the few contemporary art museums in the nation to have a dedicated source of funding of this nature. Since its launch in December 2008, MOCA's Knight Exhibition Series has featured the exhibitions: Anri Sala: Purchase Not by Moonlight (2008-09), The Possibility of an Island (2008-09), Luis Gispert (2009), The Reach of Realism (2009-10), Ceal Floyer: Auto Focus (2010), Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image (2010). Modify, as Needed (2011), Mark Handforth: Rolling Stop and Ragnar Kjartansson: Song. For more, visit www.KnightArts.org.
Exhibitions and programs at MOCA are made possible through grants from the City of North Miami. Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts. With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami is accredited by the American Association of Museums.
Vanessa Grout is a lawyer, a savvy-business woman with an MBA, and president and CEO of Douglas Elliman Florida – all at the ripe old age of 33.
Ms. Grout is back on her home turf of Miami Beach, and knows the real estate market where she grew up and beyond. And in her executive role, Ms. Grout is out to keep the success and notoriety of New York-based Douglas Elliman going here.
“The company has really taken off in the past few months,” she said. “We’ve secured the right talent, are expanding into new territories and introducing new services.”
“I am especially enthusiastic about the expansion of our Development Marketing Division, where we are exclusively selling sensational projects such as Opera Tower, created by the renowned developer Tibor Hollo,” she said.
Like her business role, Ms. Grout’s personal life has a twinge of the extra-ordinary as well. She’s a marathon runner, a classical piano player, and speaks French as a hobby.
“I play classical piano and I also run a lot,” Ms. Grout said. “I’m an avid runner. I ran the New York City Marathon last year… my time was nothing to brag about but I certainly had fun and it took the whole year to train. I also study French, the French language and I enjoy that as a hobby. I’m always improving.”
Ms. Grout talked about her responsibilities at Douglas Elliman, the local real estate market, and her personal life at her townhome in Miami Beach with Miami Today reporter Lou Ortiz.
Saif Y. Ishoof is fanatical about students. Those close to his heart are students who skip school, who can’t handle English and math, and who come from poverty-stricken homes.
Mr. Ishoof lives to help them, along with volunteers he calls his “core members” – 17 to 24 year olds from South Florida and across the nation – who take a year off from their lives to mentor and tutor students in Miami-Dade public schools.
Mr. Ishoof is the executive director of City Year, an organization that partners with Supt. Alberto M. Carvalho, and school teachers and parents, in taking on the system’s toughest task – keeping students on the path to graduation.
City Year volunteers are known in the communities by their red jackets with the organization’s logo.
“Some people said when they see the red jacket it’s like a life jacket that’s able to reach into the ocean of impossibilities that lies out there,” he said. “We want to invest and be able to unlock the potential of those students and get them back on track. So they can graduate on track with their peers.”
City Year’s 2012 group of 134 volunteers served more than 3,000 students. But Mr. Ishoof wants to do more during the 2012-13 school year. With 200 volunteers, “We’d be able to serve an additional 2,000 students in Miami-Dade County.”
Mr. Ishoof talked about City Year, a national organization founded in Boston, and the work his young cadre of volunteers are doing in the public school system here.
Saif Y. Ishoof is fanatical about students. Those close to his heart are students who skip school, who can’t handle English and math, and who come from poverty-stricken homes.
Mr. Ishoof lives to help them, along with volunteers he calls his “core members” – 17 to 24 year olds from South Florida and across the nation – who take a year off from their lives to mentor and tutor students in Miami-Dade public schools.
Mr. Ishoof is the executive director of City Year, an organization that partners with Supt. Alberto M. Carvalho, and school teachers and parents, in taking on the system’s toughest task – keeping students on the path to graduation.
City Year volunteers are known in the communities by their red jackets with the organization’s logo.
“Some people said when they see the red jacket it’s like a life jacket that’s able to reach into the ocean of impossibilities that lies out there,” he said. “We want to invest and be able to unlock the potential of those students and get them back on track. So they can graduate on track with their peers.”
City Year’s 2012 group of 134 volunteers served more than 3,000 students. But Mr. Ishoof wants to do more during the 2012-13 school year. With 200 volunteers, “We’d be able to serve an additional 2,000 students in Miami-Dade County.”
Mr. Ishoof talked about City Year, a national organization founded in Boston, and the work his young cadre of volunteers are doing in the public school system here.
As head of FIU Health, Florida International University’s educational and clinical enterprise, Fernando Valverde is putting his 30 years of experience to work for South Florida health care.
Before joining the FIU team, Dr. Valverde worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings. He founded a medical management company that oversaw the operation of 15 medical offices, 50 physicians and 500 employees.
He continued to head the enterprise once the company sold to a national competitor. Under his leadership the company grew to boast 1,000 employees, 70 medical offices and $250 million in revenue.
In his 30 years, Dr. Valverde has seen the health care industry change firsthand.
“It’s changed from a fragmented industry to a very well-organized, corporate environment where you have large HMOs, large hospital systems,” he said. “Physician practices now are 50 to 100 in one group practice. It’s gone from a fragmented system to a much more consolidated industry.
“Miami was one of the first areas in the country to begin this consolidation process, and so we had the whole program of 50 hospitals scattered throughout South Florida. Now we have four or five large hospital systems, because it’s all consolidated in an industry for HMOs.”
But as Miami health care consolidates, FIU is trying to expand. Mr. Valverde said that he hopes to partner with an affiliate clinical hospital system to bring a “medical city” to the campus.
“The medical city concept is basically developing clinical sites in one area of FIU, which is the northeast corner,” he said. “It’s at 107th and 8th Street, and in that northeast corner we have 20 to 25 acres of land that allows us to develop an area that will have clinical, research and education all in one area.”
While Dr. Valverde’s role as associate dean of the College of Medicine places him at the helm of all business development efforts, he also works as a professor at the university.
In a mission to train South Florida’s finest, FIU Health works with its many educational partners to place students in health systems that will best allow them to perfect their field of study.
“This is an opportunity for us to determine which one of these hospital systems we think has the best service on a particular specialty to get our students education,” he said. “We sort of cherry picked, if you will, for these affiliations – the best venues for our students to be educated.”
The school’s diverse curriculum and attention to detail has caught the attention of many local and international med-school applicants. FIU’s medical school has grown significantly in its first three years – a trend which Dr. Valverde hopes to continue with its next class of students.
“The college accepted its first class in ’09,” he said. “We had 3,200 applicants for 40 spots and it was a highly-contested process to accept these 40 students. The majority – 70% to 80% – come from the state of Florida. The second class was 80 students, and now the third class is 80 students as well. The fourth class is going to be 120 students…Every year we have over 4,000 applicants for these positions. We’re selecting some very highly qualified, well-diversified individuals.”
Dr. Valverde discussed his career in the health care industry, as well as the future of FIU Health, with Miami Today staff writer Ashley Hopkins at his campus office.
From the Target 2020 Summit held on Miami Beach June 1-3, 2012.
Opening Remarks: Maya Enista Smith, CEO, Mobilize.org
Summit Kickoff: Dr. Eduardo Padrón, President, Miami Dade College
Miami Millennial Civic Health Index Release by Florida Joint Center for Citizenship
Introduction and Moderator: Senator Bob Graham
Panel Speakers: Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools and
Dr. Lenore Rodicio, Executive Director, Miami Dade College (MDC3) Student Success and Completion Initiatives
Miami Millennials Pitch Ideas to Strengthen College Graduation Rates, Civic Health at June Summit
New report to be released on Miami Millennials
Local leaders including Sen. Bob Graham join Knight Foundation in summit to increase youth engagement
In a city where Millennials are amongst the least civically engaged in the nation, more than 100 students will gather in June to discuss, and take action on ways to get more young people involved in the community and completing their college degrees.
At the Mobilize.org Target 2020 Florida Summit, held June 1 – 3 at the Deauville Beach Resort, and funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, students will share challenges they face in achieving their academic goals - and collaborate on solutions that will help all students overcome them. The top five solutions, proposed as projects and selected by summit participants using keypad voting technology, will win a share of $25,000 from Mobilize.org and a year of expert support to be implemented as campus, community or online projects.
Also at the summit, Sen. Bob Graham and local leaders will release the Miami Millennial Civic Health Report, which found that Miami’s residents ages 18-30 ranked lower than their counterparts across the state and nation on indicators like volunteering and voting. Young adults without any college experience were particularly cut off from civic life. A panel with Sen. Graham, Miami Dade Schools’ Alberto Carvalho and Miami Dade College’s executive director of Student Success and Completion Initiatives Dr. Lenore Rodicio will spark a conversation on how to engage Miami’s young residents.
The Florida Joint Center for Citizenship, founded by Sen. Graham and Congressman Lou Frey, and the National Conference on Citizenship, produced the report. “There are few tasks more important than providing the next generation with pathways to engagement in civic life. Successful completion of that task requires young people who care about community issues and local institutions that can provide them with opportunities to learn about civic work by doing it. The leadership that Miami Dade College is providing with Mobilize.org is an important example of how one local institution can achieve that goal. The report that we are releasing today is an indication, however, that we are not doing enough in South Florida. As public and private leaders, we have an obligation to join together to build a sustainable framework that insures that all of our young people have opportunities to experience civic life and to build the skills of responsible, effective and honorable citizenship.”
“Nationally, four out of five teens say they want to be involved in community action and social change, yet only a quarter of young adults actually take part. There’s a huge, untapped resource there of people to better their communities. They need an open door, they need to be asked to contribute,” said Damian Thorman, national program director for Knight Foundation, which funded Mobilize.org’s expansion to Miami and three other cities. “Through their summits, Mobilize.org engages young adults who are naturally passionate about their communities, and turns that energy into action.”
The Target 2020 Florida Summit will feature a keynote address by Dr. Martha J. Kanter, under secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, a former community college president and chancellor in California and the first community college leader to serve in the under secretary position. In addition, participants will meet with Dr. Eduardo Padrón, president of Miami Dade College, Isa Adney author of “Community College Success,” and Thorman of Knight Foundation.
“Mobilize.org believes that Millennial community college students have the unique experiences and innovative ideas that will change the future of education and civic health across the country,” Mobilize.org CEO Maya Enista Smith said. “This summit is an opportunity for those student engagement and college completion ideas to become a reality with an investment from Mobilize.org that will make an impact on student success and Millennial civic health in Miami.”
Partners of the Target 2020 Florida Summit include AmeriCorps Alums, Catalyst Miami, College Summit, HandsOn Broward, Miami Dade College Center for Community Involvement and Public Allies Miami. National summit partners include the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Lumina Foundation for Education.
For more information and a complete schedule of events, please visit www.Mobilize.org/Target2020FL or contact Mobilize.org Program Manager, Amber Cruz, at Amber@Mobilize.org.
About Mobilize.org
Mobilize.org empowers and invests in Millennials to create and implement solutions to social problems. Utilizing technology and social networking to connect Millennials on and offline, Mobilize.org convenes Millennials from around the country to discuss issues impacting the Millennial Generation and to develop sustainable solutions to address them.
About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. The foundation believes that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged. For more, visit KnightFoundation.org.
From the Target 2020 Summit held on Miami Beach June 1-3, 2012.
Opening Remarks: Maya Enista Smith, CEO, Mobilize.org
Summit Kickoff: Dr. Eduardo Padrón, President, Miami Dade College
Miami Millennial Civic Health Index Release by Florida Joint Center for Citizenship
Introduction and Moderator: Senator Bob Graham
Panel Speakers: Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools and
Dr. Lenore Rodicio, Executive Director, Miami Dade College (MDC3) Student Success and Completion Initiatives
Miami Millennials Pitch Ideas to Strengthen College Graduation Rates, Civic Health at June Summit
New report to be released on Miami Millennials
Local leaders including Sen. Bob Graham join Knight Foundation in summit to increase youth engagement
In a city where Millennials are amongst the least civically engaged in the nation, more than 100 students will gather in June to discuss, and take action on ways to get more young people involved in the community and completing their college degrees.
At the Mobilize.org Target 2020 Florida Summit, held June 1 – 3 at the Deauville Beach Resort, and funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, students will share challenges they face in achieving their academic goals - and collaborate on solutions that will help all students overcome them. The top five solutions, proposed as projects and selected by summit participants using keypad voting technology, will win a share of $25,000 from Mobilize.org and a year of expert support to be implemented as campus, community or online projects.
Also at the summit, Sen. Bob Graham and local leaders will release the Miami Millennial Civic Health Report, which found that Miami’s residents ages 18-30 ranked lower than their counterparts across the state and nation on indicators like volunteering and voting. Young adults without any college experience were particularly cut off from civic life. A panel with Sen. Graham, Miami Dade Schools’ Alberto Carvalho and Miami Dade College’s executive director of Student Success and Completion Initiatives Dr. Lenore Rodicio will spark a conversation on how to engage Miami’s young residents.
The Florida Joint Center for Citizenship, founded by Sen. Graham and Congressman Lou Frey, and the National Conference on Citizenship, produced the report. “There are few tasks more important than providing the next generation with pathways to engagement in civic life. Successful completion of that task requires young people who care about community issues and local institutions that can provide them with opportunities to learn about civic work by doing it. The leadership that Miami Dade College is providing with Mobilize.org is an important example of how one local institution can achieve that goal. The report that we are releasing today is an indication, however, that we are not doing enough in South Florida. As public and private leaders, we have an obligation to join together to build a sustainable framework that insures that all of our young people have opportunities to experience civic life and to build the skills of responsible, effective and honorable citizenship.”
“Nationally, four out of five teens say they want to be involved in community action and social change, yet only a quarter of young adults actually take part. There’s a huge, untapped resource there of people to better their communities. They need an open door, they need to be asked to contribute,” said Damian Thorman, national program director for Knight Foundation, which funded Mobilize.org’s expansion to Miami and three other cities. “Through their summits, Mobilize.org engages young adults who are naturally passionate about their communities, and turns that energy into action.”
The Target 2020 Florida Summit will feature a keynote address by Dr. Martha J. Kanter, under secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, a former community college president and chancellor in California and the first community college leader to serve in the under secretary position. In addition, participants will meet with Dr. Eduardo Padrón, president of Miami Dade College, Isa Adney author of “Community College Success,” and Thorman of Knight Foundation.
“Mobilize.org believes that Millennial community college students have the unique experiences and innovative ideas that will change the future of education and civic health across the country,” Mobilize.org CEO Maya Enista Smith said. “This summit is an opportunity for those student engagement and college completion ideas to become a reality with an investment from Mobilize.org that will make an impact on student success and Millennial civic health in Miami.”
Partners of the Target 2020 Florida Summit include AmeriCorps Alums, Catalyst Miami, College Summit, HandsOn Broward, Miami Dade College Center for Community Involvement and Public Allies Miami. National summit partners include the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Lumina Foundation for Education.
For more information and a complete schedule of events, please visit www.Mobilize.org/Target2020FL or contact Mobilize.org Program Manager, Amber Cruz, at Amber@Mobilize.org.
About Mobilize.org
Mobilize.org empowers and invests in Millennials to create and implement solutions to social problems. Utilizing technology and social networking to connect Millennials on and offline, Mobilize.org convenes Millennials from around the country to discuss issues impacting the Millennial Generation and to develop sustainable solutions to address them.
About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. The foundation believes that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged. For more, visit KnightFoundation.org.
From the Target 2020 Summit held on Miami Beach June 1-3, 2012.
Opening Remarks: Maya Enista Smith, CEO, Mobilize.org
Summit Kickoff: Dr. Eduardo Padrón, President, Miami Dade College
Miami Millennial Civic Health Index Release by Florida Joint Center for Citizenship
Introduction and Moderator: Senator Bob Graham
Panel Speakers: Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools and
Dr. Lenore Rodicio, Executive Director, Miami Dade College (MDC3) Student Success and Completion Initiatives
Miami Millennials Pitch Ideas to Strengthen College Graduation Rates, Civic Health at June Summit
New report to be released on Miami Millennials
Local leaders including Sen. Bob Graham join Knight Foundation in summit to increase youth engagement
In a city where Millennials are amongst the least civically engaged in the nation, more than 100 students will gather in June to discuss, and take action on ways to get more young people involved in the community and completing their college degrees.
At the Mobilize.org Target 2020 Florida Summit, held June 1 – 3 at the Deauville Beach Resort, and funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, students will share challenges they face in achieving their academic goals - and collaborate on solutions that will help all students overcome them. The top five solutions, proposed as projects and selected by summit participants using keypad voting technology, will win a share of $25,000 from Mobilize.org and a year of expert support to be implemented as campus, community or online projects.
Also at the summit, Sen. Bob Graham and local leaders will release the Miami Millennial Civic Health Report, which found that Miami’s residents ages 18-30 ranked lower than their counterparts across the state and nation on indicators like volunteering and voting. Young adults without any college experience were particularly cut off from civic life. A panel with Sen. Graham, Miami Dade Schools’ Alberto Carvalho and Miami Dade College’s executive director of Student Success and Completion Initiatives Dr. Lenore Rodicio will spark a conversation on how to engage Miami’s young residents.
The Florida Joint Center for Citizenship, founded by Sen. Graham and Congressman Lou Frey, and the National Conference on Citizenship, produced the report. “There are few tasks more important than providing the next generation with pathways to engagement in civic life. Successful completion of that task requires young people who care about community issues and local institutions that can provide them with opportunities to learn about civic work by doing it. The leadership that Miami Dade College is providing with Mobilize.org is an important example of how one local institution can achieve that goal. The report that we are releasing today is an indication, however, that we are not doing enough in South Florida. As public and private leaders, we have an obligation to join together to build a sustainable framework that insures that all of our young people have opportunities to experience civic life and to build the skills of responsible, effective and honorable citizenship.”
“Nationally, four out of five teens say they want to be involved in community action and social change, yet only a quarter of young adults actually take part. There’s a huge, untapped resource there of people to better their communities. They need an open door, they need to be asked to contribute,” said Damian Thorman, national program director for Knight Foundation, which funded Mobilize.org’s expansion to Miami and three other cities. “Through their summits, Mobilize.org engages young adults who are naturally passionate about their communities, and turns that energy into action.”
The Target 2020 Florida Summit will feature a keynote address by Dr. Martha J. Kanter, under secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, a former community college president and chancellor in California and the first community college leader to serve in the under secretary position. In addition, participants will meet with Dr. Eduardo Padrón, president of Miami Dade College, Isa Adney author of “Community College Success,” and Thorman of Knight Foundation.
“Mobilize.org believes that Millennial community college students have the unique experiences and innovative ideas that will change the future of education and civic health across the country,” Mobilize.org CEO Maya Enista Smith said. “This summit is an opportunity for those student engagement and college completion ideas to become a reality with an investment from Mobilize.org that will make an impact on student success and Millennial civic health in Miami.”
Partners of the Target 2020 Florida Summit include AmeriCorps Alums, Catalyst Miami, College Summit, HandsOn Broward, Miami Dade College Center for Community Involvement and Public Allies Miami. National summit partners include the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Lumina Foundation for Education.
For more information and a complete schedule of events, please visit www.Mobilize.org/Target2020FL or contact Mobilize.org Program Manager, Amber Cruz, at Amber@Mobilize.org.
About Mobilize.org
Mobilize.org empowers and invests in Millennials to create and implement solutions to social problems. Utilizing technology and social networking to connect Millennials on and offline, Mobilize.org convenes Millennials from around the country to discuss issues impacting the Millennial Generation and to develop sustainable solutions to address them.
About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. The foundation believes that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged. For more, visit KnightFoundation.org.
From the Target 2020 Summit held on Miami Beach June 1-3, 2012.
Opening Remarks: Maya Enista Smith, CEO, Mobilize.org
Summit Kickoff: Dr. Eduardo Padrón, President, Miami Dade College
Miami Millennial Civic Health Index Release by Florida Joint Center for Citizenship
Introduction and Moderator: Senator Bob Graham
Panel Speakers: Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools and
Dr. Lenore Rodicio, Executive Director, Miami Dade College (MDC3) Student Success and Completion Initiatives
Miami Millennials Pitch Ideas to Strengthen College Graduation Rates, Civic Health at June Summit
New report to be released on Miami Millennials
Local leaders including Sen. Bob Graham join Knight Foundation in summit to increase youth engagement
In a city where Millennials are amongst the least civically engaged in the nation, more than 100 students will gather in June to discuss, and take action on ways to get more young people involved in the community and completing their college degrees.
At the Mobilize.org Target 2020 Florida Summit, held June 1 – 3 at the Deauville Beach Resort, and funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, students will share challenges they face in achieving their academic goals - and collaborate on solutions that will help all students overcome them. The top five solutions, proposed as projects and selected by summit participants using keypad voting technology, will win a share of $25,000 from Mobilize.org and a year of expert support to be implemented as campus, community or online projects.
Also at the summit, Sen. Bob Graham and local leaders will release the Miami Millennial Civic Health Report, which found that Miami’s residents ages 18-30 ranked lower than their counterparts across the state and nation on indicators like volunteering and voting. Young adults without any college experience were particularly cut off from civic life. A panel with Sen. Graham, Miami Dade Schools’ Alberto Carvalho and Miami Dade College’s executive director of Student Success and Completion Initiatives Dr. Lenore Rodicio will spark a conversation on how to engage Miami’s young residents.
The Florida Joint Center for Citizenship, founded by Sen. Graham and Congressman Lou Frey, and the National Conference on Citizenship, produced the report. “There are few tasks more important than providing the next generation with pathways to engagement in civic life. Successful completion of that task requires young people who care about community issues and local institutions that can provide them with opportunities to learn about civic work by doing it. The leadership that Miami Dade College is providing with Mobilize.org is an important example of how one local institution can achieve that goal. The report that we are releasing today is an indication, however, that we are not doing enough in South Florida. As public and private leaders, we have an obligation to join together to build a sustainable framework that insures that all of our young people have opportunities to experience civic life and to build the skills of responsible, effective and honorable citizenship.”
“Nationally, four out of five teens say they want to be involved in community action and social change, yet only a quarter of young adults actually take part. There’s a huge, untapped resource there of people to better their communities. They need an open door, they need to be asked to contribute,” said Damian Thorman, national program director for Knight Foundation, which funded Mobilize.org’s expansion to Miami and three other cities. “Through their summits, Mobilize.org engages young adults who are naturally passionate about their communities, and turns that energy into action.”
The Target 2020 Florida Summit will feature a keynote address by Dr. Martha J. Kanter, under secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, a former community college president and chancellor in California and the first community college leader to serve in the under secretary position. In addition, participants will meet with Dr. Eduardo Padrón, president of Miami Dade College, Isa Adney author of “Community College Success,” and Thorman of Knight Foundation.
“Mobilize.org believes that Millennial community college students have the unique experiences and innovative ideas that will change the future of education and civic health across the country,” Mobilize.org CEO Maya Enista Smith said. “This summit is an opportunity for those student engagement and college completion ideas to become a reality with an investment from Mobilize.org that will make an impact on student success and Millennial civic health in Miami.”
Partners of the Target 2020 Florida Summit include AmeriCorps Alums, Catalyst Miami, College Summit, HandsOn Broward, Miami Dade College Center for Community Involvement and Public Allies Miami. National summit partners include the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Lumina Foundation for Education.
For more information and a complete schedule of events, please visit www.Mobilize.org/Target2020FL or contact Mobilize.org Program Manager, Amber Cruz, at Amber@Mobilize.org.
About Mobilize.org
Mobilize.org empowers and invests in Millennials to create and implement solutions to social problems. Utilizing technology and social networking to connect Millennials on and offline, Mobilize.org convenes Millennials from around the country to discuss issues impacting the Millennial Generation and to develop sustainable solutions to address them.
About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. The foundation believes that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged. For more, visit KnightFoundation.org.
From the Target 2020 Summit held on Miami Beach June 1-3, 2012.
Opening Remarks: Maya Enista Smith, CEO, Mobilize.org
Summit Kickoff: Dr. Eduardo Padrón, President, Miami Dade College
Miami Millennial Civic Health Index Release by Florida Joint Center for Citizenship
Introduction and Moderator: Senator Bob Graham
Panel Speakers: Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools and
Dr. Lenore Rodicio, Executive Director, Miami Dade College (MDC3) Student Success and Completion Initiatives
Miami Millennials Pitch Ideas to Strengthen College Graduation Rates, Civic Health at June Summit
New report to be released on Miami Millennials
Local leaders including Sen. Bob Graham join Knight Foundation in summit to increase youth engagement
In a city where Millennials are amongst the least civically engaged in the nation, more than 100 students will gather in June to discuss, and take action on ways to get more young people involved in the community and completing their college degrees.
At the Mobilize.org Target 2020 Florida Summit, held June 1 – 3 at the Deauville Beach Resort, and funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, students will share challenges they face in achieving their academic goals - and collaborate on solutions that will help all students overcome them. The top five solutions, proposed as projects and selected by summit participants using keypad voting technology, will win a share of $25,000 from Mobilize.org and a year of expert support to be implemented as campus, community or online projects.
Also at the summit, Sen. Bob Graham and local leaders will release the Miami Millennial Civic Health Report, which found that Miami’s residents ages 18-30 ranked lower than their counterparts across the state and nation on indicators like volunteering and voting. Young adults without any college experience were particularly cut off from civic life. A panel with Sen. Graham, Miami Dade Schools’ Alberto Carvalho and Miami Dade College’s executive director of Student Success and Completion Initiatives Dr. Lenore Rodicio will spark a conversation on how to engage Miami’s young residents.
The Florida Joint Center for Citizenship, founded by Sen. Graham and Congressman Lou Frey, and the National Conference on Citizenship, produced the report. “There are few tasks more important than providing the next generation with pathways to engagement in civic life. Successful completion of that task requires young people who care about community issues and local institutions that can provide them with opportunities to learn about civic work by doing it. The leadership that Miami Dade College is providing with Mobilize.org is an important example of how one local institution can achieve that goal. The report that we are releasing today is an indication, however, that we are not doing enough in South Florida. As public and private leaders, we have an obligation to join together to build a sustainable framework that insures that all of our young people have opportunities to experience civic life and to build the skills of responsible, effective and honorable citizenship.”
“Nationally, four out of five teens say they want to be involved in community action and social change, yet only a quarter of young adults actually take part. There’s a huge, untapped resource there of people to better their communities. They need an open door, they need to be asked to contribute,” said Damian Thorman, national program director for Knight Foundation, which funded Mobilize.org’s expansion to Miami and three other cities. “Through their summits, Mobilize.org engages young adults who are naturally passionate about their communities, and turns that energy into action.”
The Target 2020 Florida Summit will feature a keynote address by Dr. Martha J. Kanter, under secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, a former community college president and chancellor in California and the first community college leader to serve in the under secretary position. In addition, participants will meet with Dr. Eduardo Padrón, president of Miami Dade College, Isa Adney author of “Community College Success,” and Thorman of Knight Foundation.
“Mobilize.org believes that Millennial community college students have the unique experiences and innovative ideas that will change the future of education and civic health across the country,” Mobilize.org CEO Maya Enista Smith said. “This summit is an opportunity for those student engagement and college completion ideas to become a reality with an investment from Mobilize.org that will make an impact on student success and Millennial civic health in Miami.”
Partners of the Target 2020 Florida Summit include AmeriCorps Alums, Catalyst Miami, College Summit, HandsOn Broward, Miami Dade College Center for Community Involvement and Public Allies Miami. National summit partners include the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Lumina Foundation for Education.
For more information and a complete schedule of events, please visit www.Mobilize.org/Target2020FL or contact Mobilize.org Program Manager, Amber Cruz, at Amber@Mobilize.org.
About Mobilize.org
Mobilize.org empowers and invests in Millennials to create and implement solutions to social problems. Utilizing technology and social networking to connect Millennials on and offline, Mobilize.org convenes Millennials from around the country to discuss issues impacting the Millennial Generation and to develop sustainable solutions to address them.
About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. The foundation believes that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged. For more, visit KnightFoundation.org.
