Interim Executive Director
Program Manager
Board of Advisors
Agustín Arellano Sr.- Chair of construction firm NV2A Group, Board Chair
Ray Rodríguez – Former President and Chief Operating Officer of Univision Communications, Vice Chair
César Alvarez – Senior Chairman of Greenberg Traurig and member of the FIU Board of Trustees
Néstor Carbonell Sr. – Former International Public Affairs and Business Leader at PepsiCo
George Corton – Managing Principal of Westside Capital Group
Jacqueline Dascal Chariff – Real Estate Development & Investment
Alfonso Fanjul, Jr. – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Florida Crystals Corporation and Fanjul Corporation
George Feldenkreis – Executive Chairman of the Board of Perry Ellis International
Andy García – Award-winning Actor and Director
Jorge González – Vice Chairman and CEO of City National Bank
Alberto Ibargüen – President and Chief Executive Officer of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Jorge Mas – Chairman of the Board of MasTec
Mario Murgado – President and CEO of Murgado Automotive Group
Lily Prellezo – Author
Claudia Puig – President and General Manager of Univision Communications
Mark B. Rosenberg – Former President of Florida International University
Eduardo M. Sardiña – Former President and Chief Executive Officer of Bacardi U.S.A.
Mayi de la Vega – Founder and CEO of One Sotheby's International Realty
Scholarly Advisory Committee
Michael Bustamante, Bacardí Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies - University of Miami
Erik Camayd-Freixas, Professor in the Department of Modern Languages - FIU
Julio Capó, Deputy Director of the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab and Associate Professor in the Department of History - FIU
Jorge Duany, Director of the Cuban Research Institute and Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies - FIU
Juan Carlos Espinosa, Dean of the Honors College - FIU
Rebecca Friedman, Director of the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab and Professor in the Department of History - FIU
Karen S. Fuller - Veloz, Director of the School of Music - FIU
Verónica A. González, Assistant Librarian in the Sound and Image Department - FIU
Pedro José Greer Jr., Dean of the Roseman University College of Medicine
Guillermo Grenier, Chair and Professor in the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies - FIU
Marcos Kerbel, Adjunct Professor of Finance in the College of Business - FIU
Catherine Mas, Assistant Professor in the Department of History - FIU
Marilys R. Nepomechie, Associate Dean of Faculty and Program Development of the College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts and Professor in the Department of Architecture - FIU
Andrea J. Queeley, Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Global and Sociocultural Studies Department - FIU
Rita Teutonico, Associate Dean of Research of the College of Arts, Sciences & Education - FIU
John Thomas, Associate Professor at the Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management - FIU