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Xavier Cortada
EDUCATION:
| December 1991 |
Juris Doctor
University of Miami School of Law
Coral Gables, Florida |
| December 1991 |
Master of Public Administration
University of Miami Graduate School of Business
Coral Gables, Florida |
| December 1986 |
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences
Coral Gables, Florida |
LICENSURE:
Admitted
to the Florida Bar, June 9, 1992, and thereby licensed as an Attorney and Counselor at Law in all Courts of the
State of Florida.
ADJUNCT FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
& FELLOWSHIPS:
Voluntary
Assistant Professor, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL:
Department
of Pediatrics (2000-present).
Department
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
(1993-96, 1998-present).
National
Leadership Fellows Program for Join Together, a
National Resource for Communities Fighting Substance Abuse, Boston University School of Public Health
(1993-present).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| 1992-present |
Attorney at Law, Miami, FL. |
1993-present |
Community Artist/Community Development Consultant: Developed,
facilitated, and implemented numerous juvenile justice, conflict resolution,
community building and pro-social collaborative projects with non-profit groups and
governmental agencies at the local, national and international
(Africa, Europe and Latin America) level.
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1995-1997 |
Program
Director, Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC), South Dade Development
Program. Opened and staffed program
office to bring affordable housing to South Dade in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew;
implemented community development effort in Florida City, Homestead and Naranja
communities in South Dade County, FL.
|
1995 |
South
Florida Coordinator, Floridians
for Access to Justice--a campaign sponsored by The Florida Bar, The Florida Bar
Foundation and Florida Legal Services fighting to preserve federal funding of the Legal
Services Corporation, Miami, FL.
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1992-1993 |
Director,
Juvenile Violence and Delinquency Prevention Programs
and Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Miami School of
Medicine
Center
on Minority Families
Center for Family Studies
Spanish Family Guidance Center
Miami, FL. |
1990-1992 |
Executive
Director,
Regis House, Inc. Miami, FL. Increased
the adolescent substance abuse center’s private sector support and community
awareness, brought in first public funding, acquired and renovated present building.
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BOARDS/COMMITTEES
& TASK FORCES:
| 2002-present |
Dade County Bar Association (DCBA)
Juvenile Court Committee, Chair |
2002-present |
City
of Miami Civilian Investigative Panel (CIP) Nominating Committee
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| 2001-present |
Community
Relations Board, Miami-Dade County, FL
Executive Committee and Chair, Forums Committee |
| 2000-present |
SALAD
(Spanish American League Against Discrimination), Board Member, Miami, FL |
2000-present |
Historical
Museum of Southern Florida, Board of Trustees, Miami, FL.
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1988-present
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Local
Board Member, Selective Service System
(Draft Board)
|
1997-present |
University
of Miami School of Law
Children and Youth Law Clinic, Advisory Board
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| 1995-1998 |
Board
of Directors, Health Crisis Network , Miami,
Florida
Advocacy Committee Chair
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1994-1997 |
Dade County Bar Association (DCBA)
Juvenile Court Committee, Chair
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| 1993-1995 |
City
of Miami City-wide Community
Development Advisory Board |
1988-1998 |
Board
of Trustees, Regis House, Miami, Florida
President (1989-90), Vice Chair (1990-1998)
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| 1993-1996 |
Dade
County Juvenile Justice Council,
Executive Committee
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1992
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Adolescent Juvenile Justice Task Force,
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT),
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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1991-1993
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Chair,
City of Miami Youth Task Force,
Miami, Florida
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1991-1993
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Chair,
Advisory Board to Metropolitan Dade County Hispanic Family Development Project
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1990-1993 |
Chair,
Membership Committee, Dade County Prevention Network for Alcohol and Other Drugs
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| 1988-1990 |
Vice-Chair,
City of Miami Mayor's Committee on Youth Gang Activity |
1990-1991 |
American
Bar Association, House of Delegates
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| 1989-1990 |
American
Bar Association Law Student Division,
National Vice-Chair |
1991-92 |
Founding
Organizer and Facilitator of the Wynwood Youth
Group in the aftermath of the Wynwood Disturbances,
Corpus Christi Church’s La Mission San Juan Bautista, Miami, FL |
1987
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White
House Advance Team
for the 1987 Visit to Miami of Pope John Paul II, Miami, Florida.
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HONORS and AWARDS:
2000 |
U.S.
Department of State/USA Today "Millennium
International Volunteer Award", March 1, 2000
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2000 |
Florida Association of Volunteer Agencies for
Caribbean Action (FAVA/CA) Florida International Volunteer Corps 1999
Outstanding Achievement Award, February 23, 2000 |
| 2000 |
Invited
by the Vatican to Jubilee Day for Artists,
February 18, 2000 |
| 1999
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"Xavier Cortada Day" Proclamation on
January 6, 1999 by the City of South Miami, Florida.
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| 1998
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"Xavier Cortada Day” Proclamation on
April 4, 1998 by the City of Miami.
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| 1998 |
"Xavier
Cortada Day”
Proclamation on April 4, 1998 by the City of Miami Beach.
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| 1998 |
"Xavier Cortada Day" Proclamation on
April 4, 1998 by Miami-Dade County, Florida.
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| 1998 |
Entered into the Congressional
Record of the US House of Representatives, 105th
Congress, First Session, in Washington on April 22, 1998. |
| 1997 |
Presented
with a Key to the Miami-Dade Housing Agency,
Miami-Dade County, September 8, 1997. |
| 1992 |
Entered
into the Congressional Record of the 102nd
Congress, Second Session, (Vol. 138, No. 19), Washington, Wednesday, February 19,
1992. |
| 1992
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Price Waterhouse/South Florida Magazine
UP & Comers Award |
1992 |
United Way
Dorothy Shula Award, Finalist
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| 1985-present |
Iron Arrow Honor Society,
University of Miami, FL
(Son of Chief/Vice President, 1987-88) |
1982 |
The Miami Herald Silver Knight Award Winner
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SELECTED
CONSULTING ACTIVITIES:
2001-2002 Volunteer
Attorney & Artistic Director, ArtCARE:
Outreach to Juveniles in Adult Jails,
a project of the Law Offices of Bennett Brummer, Public Defender, and Art in Public
Places.
2001
History
of Disabilities,
a UM Mailman Center for Child Development outreach project.
2001
Keynote
speaker for the Fulbright Foreign Student Enrichment Seminar sponsored by the U.S.
State Department and the Institute of International, Miami Beach, Florida
2000-2001 Master-Peace
International, implemented a Miami-Dade Art in Public Places program in three local
public schools aimed at imparting lessons learned during the implementation of US State
Department conflict resolution projects in Northern Ireland and Cyprus,
and the creation of the USAID (US Agency for
Int’l Development)-sponsored World AIDS mural in South Africa.
1999-2000 Public
Art Transforming Housing, PATH—
Director, developed arts-based prevention program in 9 public housing sites across
Miami-Dade County, sponsored by Art in Public Places, Miami-Dade Police Department and
Miami-Dade Housing Agency, Miami, FL
1998-2000 Director, Master-Peace, designed, and implemented a
school-centered, Internet-based pro-social arts project in 22 public schools. Sponsored by Miami-Dade Art in Public Places,
Miami-Dade County Public Schools and Regis House. Funded
through Miami-Dade Department of Human Resources and NikeTown Miami. Please visit, www.master-peace.org.
| 1997-1998 |
Director,
Regis House Little Havana Cultural Program, Miami, FL. Funded through Miami-Dade
Department of Human Resources and Miami Police Department. |
1995
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Central
Rockies Prevention Project, a special project of Colorado's 5th Judicial District Attorney's Office. Served as a Community Development
consultant and developed a Needs Assessment for
Hispanics in Leadville, Colorado. |
1994 |
United
States Information Agency--Guest Speaker: Madrid, Spain; Lisbon,
and Viseu; Portugal; Punta
Delgado, the Azores; Freetown,
Sierra Leone; Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa;
Port Louis, Mauritius; Dar es Salam, Tanzania; and Nairobi, Kenya. |
1994
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University
of Miami Center for Family Studies
Adjunct
Faculty and Consultant to:
Shenandoah
In Action: Drug-Free Schools Prevention Project, a grant from the Center for Substance
Abuse Prevention and the U.S. Dept. of Education Drug-Free Schools Office
Human
Ecology Treatment for Hispanic & African American Substance Abusing Adolescents, a
grant from the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.
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1993-1998 |
Founding
Organizer and Advisor to Vecinos En Accion, a
grass-roots neighborhood group in Miami's East Little Havana neighborhood
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| 1993-94 |
Annie
Casey Mental Health Initiative for Urban Children in East Little Havana, Interim
Project Director |
| 1993 |
United
States Embassy in Bogota, Columbia, Narcotics
Affairs Section--Keynote
Speaker for Surgir's International Conference in
Medellin, Colombia |
| 1993 |
Washington
State Migrant Council--Keynote Speaker for the
Hispanic State Conference on Child Abuse Prevention and Intervention |
| 1993 |
United States Information Agency--Guest Speaker in
Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Guatemala City, Guatemala and Bogota, Colombia. |
1993
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Mid-South
Summer School, University of Arkansas at Little
Rock—Presenter
|
1992
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United
States Information Agency
-- Guest Speaker in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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1992
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Center
for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
National Volunteer Training Center:
Training of Trainers for Hispanics
Training of Trainers for the Religious Community
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1992
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Dade
Community Foundation
-- Neighborhood Grants Program consultant
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