Our Founders

Miami Freedom Project is committed to building a community of leaders capable and willing to change the narrative and advance policies that improve the lives of working families.  Until recently, an understanding of how political trauma could impact first and second generation immigrant communities has been missing. When President Obama called Miami a monument to what the Cuban people can build, we rightfully took pride in our city. But in that same year, Bloomberg cited Miami as the most unequal big city in America. In 2017, we willingly relinquished our sanctuary status. We have not closed the medicaid gap, have no viable public transit system, and our affordable housing crisis is the worst in the country and is aggravated by the climate crisis as developers take over poor communities of color on higher land. This can’t be who we are. Let’s change the narrative together.