SAVE Inc.

Juan Talavera – (Chairperson, Board of Directors) Juan was elected chairperson of the board in June 2006. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker now working as a care manager for Jackson Memorial Mental Health Hospital . He previously served on the SAVE board from 1996 to 2002 and served as volunteer coordinator for the organization during the same period. He is a graduate of the Miami Fellows Initiative, a leadership development program. He has volunteered for multiple organizations and served on several boards and committees. Juan previously worked as a psychosocial counselor for Health Crisis Network, serving individuals and their families infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
 
Mike De Cossio - Bio Coming Soon!
 

Judd Goldberg - Judd is a partner at the law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham where he practices in the area of labor and employment.  Judd has been a member of the Board since June 2005.

 

Elizabeth Regalado - Liz's interest and expertise in social services planning and coordination evolved from her role as Assistant Director in the County Manager's Office of Homeless Coordinator, overseeing the countywide process of assessing  and placing  homeless individuals into the continuum of care and services. She has served in various capacities within county government, including the Census 2000 Outreach Campaign and has had oversight of programs providing a variety of services to individuals with HIV/AIDS, substance use and mental health disorders.  Her interest is to ensure that social services are delivered in an integrated and comprehensive manner with emphasis on accountability and the impact these services have on the consumers.

 
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 Jeffrey Hecht- Jeff is a C.P.A. with more than twenty years experience in corporate financial accounting, control and treasury. He is currently the Vice President of Finance and Information Services at Fine Art Lamps, Inc. He spent most of his life in the New York area and moved to Miami Beach with his life partner in 2004.
 

Joe Falk - Joseph Falk is Past President and Legislative Chairman of the National Association of Mortgage Brokers. He was President of NAMB in 2001-2002 and continues to serve on the Board of Directors. In 2007, Mr. Falk was named a member of the Consumer Advisory Council to the Federal Reserve Board. Mr. Falk is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and received his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1978. Joe is a licensed mortgage broker. He is President of his own mortgage firm and a consultant with the law firm of Akerman Senterfitt.

Mr. Falk resides in Miami, Florida.

 

Andrew Friedman - Andrew is business development manager for an educational publishing company. Andrew has an undergraduate degree in sociology and a graduate degree in law. His travels for business take him throughout the state of Florida, providing a great introduction to the many people and places of this varied state. Andrew's outlook on life has been greatly shaped by his background in sociology, especially his time spent working in conflict resolution in Washington, D.C. This experience, along with a long, long employment record dating to his first job at age 13, has helped create an ability to work and relate to peoples from a wide-variety of backgrounds and outlooks.
 

Georg Ketlehohn - Bio Coming Soon!
 
Pamela Sweeney - Pamela holds degrees in Marine Biology and Women’s Studies from the University of West Florida. Pamela is a marine biologist working for the FL Department of Environmental Protection and the Marine Animal Rescue Society. While her work in marine mammal science is her specialty, activism is her passion. While attending college, Pamela resurrected the local chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in Pensacola, Florida, infamous for its abortion clinic violence and ultra-conservative views. As President of NOW, Pamela helped organize the city’s first Transforming Rape Culture Conference and “Take Back the Night”—a nationwide event to honor victims of domestic violence and empower women—an event that has become an annual one on campus. Pamela and NOW were featured in the HBO documentary “Soldiers in the Army of God,” highlighting the treacherous anti-choice groups that bloomed in Pensacola and the effects the murders had on the city and American psyche. Her efforts were recognized soon thereafter at a dinner with Gloria Steinem. Pamela is the co-chair of SAVE’s Grassroots Action Committee, mobilized to do the grassroots organizing it will take for Miami-Dade County to turn out the votes necessary to defeat Amendment 2 in November 2008.
 


Alfredo Iglesias - Alfredo Iglesias a Cuban-American with a Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering, comes to the SAVE board with 15 years of business experience in the Information Technology industry. Alfredo was Involved with SAVE’s campaigns in 2000 - 2001 as a volunteers before relocating to San Diego, CA for 5 years. Upon his return to Miami in 2006, Alfredo became actively involved with SAVE’s Grassroots Action Committee as a volunteer leader. Alfredo is also a Director at the Coral Gables Rotary Club where he participates in the organization of community service and volunteer activities. Alfredo and his husband of 14 years Kirk Arthur are active members of the Coral Gables Congregational Church and engaged in community and business organizations in their neighborhood. Kirk and Alfredo have a 19-year old son, Alfy, who lives in San Diego.

 


SAVE Foundation

Juan Talavera – (Chairperson, Board of Directors) Juan was elected chairperson of the board in June 2006. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker now working as a care manager for Jackson Memorial Mental Health Hospital . He previously served on the SAVE board from 1996 to 2002 and served as volunteer coordinator for the organization during the same period. He is a graduate of the Miami Fellows Initiative, a leadership development program. He has volunteered for multiple organizations and served on several boards and committees. Juan previously worked as a psychosocial counselor for Health Crisis Network, serving individuals and their families infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
   
Mike De Cossio - Bio Coming Soon!
   

Judd Goldberg - Judd is a partner at the law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham where he practices in the area of labor and employment.  Judd has been a member of the Board since June 2005.

   

Orlando Gonzales - Orlando Gonzales is an entrepreneur and educator who most recently successfully launched, and now owns and manages a thriving business in scholastic journalism with Jostens Printing and Publishing.  Gonzales has exercised his interests and experience in fundraising and development, communications, and public relations with various private and non-profit organizations.  Human rights, the proliferation of art and culture, as well as the defense of the first-amendment are the social causes that Orlando chooses to regularly champion.  He earned a bachelor of arts in sociology from Georgetown University where he focused his studies in community service, race, culture, and women's studies.  Orlando has lived in Miami since 2000 and was born and raised in El Paso , Texas.
   
Juan Del Hierro - Juan is more than a volunteer. He is dedicated and active in a variety ways within the community. He is a founding member of Empowering U, a first of its kind non-profit organization which provides empowerment series for boys in the Miami-Dade Juvenile Justice Program. He is also active within Habitat for Humanity and oversees a partnership program for Community Partnership for the Homeless. Social justice has always been a focus of his time and energy, even while attending Florida State University and Florida International University where he studied Political Science and Economics. Currently, Juan works at Unity on the Bay as Director of the Sacred Service Ministry, overseeing their volunteer and outreach programs. He is also studying to become a Licensed Unity Minister. Aside from his position as a Board Member for the SAVE Foundation, Juan is the Co-Chair of SAVE’s Grassroots Action Committee mobilized to do the grassroots organizing it will take for Miami-Dade County to turn out the votes necessary to defeat Amendment 2 in November 2008.