Mario Alejandro Ariza is a Dominican immigrant who grew up in Miami. A Michener Fellow in poetry at the University of Miami’s Master in Fine Arts program, he is currently working on a nonfiction book about South Florida and Sea Level Rise. On a day with a good swell and northeasterly breezes, you’ll find him surfing on South Beach (yes, there’s actually surfing Miami.)
When Miami native Alex Daly started advising clients on how to run successful crowdfunding campaign, there wasn’t really a name for what she was doing – and people didn’t realize it could even be a full-time job. That’s changed.
Less than 2 percent of South Florida’s original pine rockland habitat, home to two endangered species and one of the rarest forest habitats in the world, remains today.
Jasmin Sibai, a Miami native born to Cuban and Syrian parents, has spent the last several years scrambling to bring her family in Syria to the U.S. Then the refugee ban happened.
Miami-Dade County alone has 23,000 formerly undocumented immigrants registered with DACA – a program enacted by President Obama. Now, President-elect Trump is vowing to overturn it.
