Posted by Elman + Menendez on Apr 18, 2021

Carla Berkowitz Brings “Critical Thinking” to the Screen

CARLA BERKOWITZ is the Executive Producer of the highly acclaimed independent feature film Critical Thinking. The film, directed by and starring the Emmy-award winning actor John Leguizamo, tells the true story of the 1998 Miami Jackson Senior High School chess team, which was the first LatinX inner city team to win the U.S. National Chess Championship. Berkowitz spent over 20 years developing the project from story to screenplay to film.

Posted by Elman + Jimenez on Apr 11, 2021

Justin Trieger at the New World Symphony

JUSTIN TRIEGER is an award-winning composer, sound designer and experienced multimedia engineer and producer. After formal training in the Music Technology department of the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University, Justin relocated to Miami Beach, FL where he now manages all of the collaborative, internet-based projects of the New World Symphony. Justin currently serves as a Cultural Affairs Councilor for the Department of Cultural Affairs in Miami-Dade County.

Posted by Elman + Dieujuste on Apr 5, 2021

Jim Gilbert: Editor, Journalist, Author

JIM GILBERT’s 35-year career as a journalist and publisher is notable in that he was always able to write about things he truly enjoyed while living in places he genuinely loved. His career began as a weekly reporter and editor on Cape Cod for the Provincetown Advocate, then shifted to San Juan, Puerto Rico, Newport, RI and finally to Ft. Lauderdale, FL, where he was the founding editor-in-chief and ultimately owner of ShowBoats International, which he started in 1988.

Posted by Elman + Skinner on Apr 4, 2021

Amy Paige Condon: Falling in Love with Bill Baggs

AMY PAIGE CONDON’S biography of “MIAMI NEWS” editor BILL BAGGS (1923-1969), A Nervous Man Shouldn’t Be Here in the First Place, the Life of Bill Baggs, was published by UGA Press in Fall 2020. Condon moved from Miami to Savannah, where she lives with her husband, three pups and a pig named Gus.

Posted by Elman + Domenech on Mar 13, 2021

Juana Valdes: Multi-Disciplined Artist

JUANA VALDES uses printmaking, photography, sculpture, ceramics, and site-specific installations, to explore issues of race, transnationalism, gender, labor, and class. Functioning as an archive, Valdes’s work analyzes and decodes experiences of migration as a person of Afro Caribbean heritage.

Posted by Christine Dolen on Mar 12, 2021

Bari Newport to Helm GableStage

By Christine Dolen

For more than two decades, GableStage and producing artistic director Joseph Adler were intertwined, forming the celebrated Coral Gables theater’s DNA. Starting April 1, the new leader at the helm of GableStage will be Bari Newport, who has served for the past nine years as producing artistic director of the Penobscot Theatre Co. in Bangor, Maine.

Posted by Elman + Rojas on Mar 6, 2021

Dr. Yanela McLeod: Author, Educator

DR. YANELA G. MCLEOD, Ph.D. is director of Communications and Alumni Relations for the Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, where she is also an adjunct professor of history. McLeod has spent her professional career as an educator, journalist, and social historian. Her research specialty is the history of the Black Press, particularly in Florida. McLeod is the author of “The Miami Times and the Fight for Equality: Race, Sport, and the Black Press, 1948- 1958.”

Posted by Inspicio Staff on Sep 18, 2017

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