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Headquartered in Washington, DC, the mission of the CNU is to champion walkable urbanism by providing resources, education, and technical assistance to create socially just, economically robust, environmentally resilient, and people centered places. The CNU leverages the principles of the New Urbanism to advance three key goals: to diversify neighborhoods, to design for climate change, and to legalize walkable places. https://www.cnu.org/

Edison Marshall was born August 29, 1894 in Rensselaer, Indiana. Marshall began his professional career while still a freshman at the University of Oregon, when he sold his first story to Argosy. He entered the army after graduation and received a commission. During the 1920s, he became one of the most successful authors of adventure short stories in America, developing a readership numbering in the millions in Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, and Reader's Digest. From the 1920s until the end of the 1950s, Edison Marshall was a renowned author of adventure and historical fiction in the United States. A number of his works were transformed into films by 20th Century Fox. Edison received the Gold Cross, Order of Merit from the University of Miami. He died Oct 30, 1967 in Augusta, Georgia.

Carlos Felipe was a Cuban playwright born in Havana, Cuba in 1914 and the brother of actress Rosa Felipe. He was most known for his play “Requiem for Yarini” which was written in the style of a Greek tragedy, and later was adapted into the film “Los Dioses Rotos” in 2008 by Ernesto Daranas. He wrote his first play at age 11, without actually having been to the theater or having received any formal education. In fact, he had to work to support his family from a young age and was self-taught. He studied grammar, literature, English and French as well as music. At age 13, he worked in a rubber import house of automobiles, brand "Hood", on Prado Street, cleaning and running errands. At age 17 he worked in a cafe on the Calzada de Vibora and San Francisco. In 1939, after winning the first prize in the theatrical competition organized by the Ministry of Education for his “Esta noche en el bosque,” Felipe decided to pursue a professional career in the theater world. His comedy “El chino” was premiered by El Grupo ADAD was a theater company directed by José Rubia Barcia in the 1940’s, which existed before Teatro Universitario. The play’s premier was directed by Modesto Centeno and premiered in 1939.

He worked at the Havana Customs Office for 32 years until after the Cuban Revolution. In 1961 he was taken to work as a literary advisor to the National Dramatic Ensemble and the Department of Theater and Dance of the National Council of Culture where he helped to produce and disseminate propaganda. His theatrical works, including some unpublished pieces include: Réquiem por Yarini (La Habana, Universidad Central de Las Villas. Dirección de Publicaciones, 1960.); Tambores (1943); El travieso Jimmy (1951); Esta noche en el bosque (1939); La bruja en el obenque; El alfabeto o la bata de encajes (1962); Los compadres, a melodrama; Capricho en rojo (1948); El Chino, a comedy (1947); Ladrillos de plata; Ibrahim; ¡De Película! A musical comedy, (October 17, 1963); El divertido viaje de Adelita Cossi, 1930's. In a 1966 interview, Felipe described his impetus for writing theatrical works as a need to communicate a feeling or sentiment.

Felipe won several prominent awards for his works including in 1947 he won Best Play for El Chino at the Concurso de Teatro ADAD. In 1948 he won Best Play for Capricho en rojo at the Concurso de Teatro ADAD and in 1951 he won first prize for El travieso Jimmy at the concurso teatral del Ministerio de Educación. In 1965, he served on the jury of the Casa de las Américas theater contest. Felipe expressed great optimism in the future of Cuban theater. He died in 1975.

Rosa Felipe was a Cuban actress. She was born on November 2nd, 1922 in Havana, Cuba. Her father was from the Valladolid province of Spain and her mother was Cuban. Felipe completed her early education at the Colegio Estrella de la Víbora in Havana. Later, she did her professional education at the Instituto de La Habana. She was also a self-taught typist, as well as master of handwriting, and a poet. She worked for the publication “Vanidades.”
Her acting career began in Cuba in the 1950´s, first in short scenes and dialogues from Spanish societies, and later, as a student in the Academia de Artes Dramáticas de la Escuela Libre de La Habana, where she received a competitive scholarship to attend. As a professional actress, she worked for various theater companies: Patronato del Teatro, Teatro Adad, Farseros, Theatralia, Teatro Universitario, as well as national radio stations and television broadcasts. She traveled to or worked in most parts of Cuba with each theater company she was part of. She was chosen to act alongside Francisco Petrone when he visited Havana and received high praise from critics. She acted the role of "Sara en el traspatio", under the direction of Rubén Vigón as well as the villain Ursula Betancourt in the telenovela "Mi apellido es Valdés". Felipe has won a total of 14 trophies, including the highest honor in television, the Gran Premio Avellaneda. She has appeared in many distinctive roles, from simple works to Greek tragedies, including the part of Yocasta de Medea. Her last work on Cuban television was in "Teresa Raquim", by Emilio Zola.

In 1971, she left Cuba for Madrid, Spain, and formed part of the Compañía Inglesa Nuevo Acento theater company in the capacity of director and actress. Part of her work was to produce recordings for Latin America and be a consultant for radio scripts. In 1974, she united with the community of exiled Cuban actors in Miami and continued her career in the United States. There she formed part of the group Repertorio Español in New York and the Compañia Dramatica under the direction of Spanish actor and director Alejandro Ulloa. She also presented a homage to José Martí called “El hombre sincero” written by Rene Buch, at el Museo Cubano de Arte y Cultura in Miami. In the 1990’s she appeared in telenovelas such as "El magnate", "Marielena", "Guadalupe", "Aguamarina,'' and "La mujer de mi vida." Rosa Felipe passed away in 2009.

Dulce Beatriz (née Dulce Hernández Moreno de Ayala) is a painter and sculptor mainly known for her Impressionist-style painting. She was born in Havana, Cuba on March 17, 1931 to José María Hernández, the manager of a bakery, and Dulce Moreno Ayala, a teacher. Her maternal grandfather, Dr. Emilio Moreno de Ayala, was a well-published historian and university professor in Spain who was a recipient of the Orden de Isabel la Católica, which his granddaughter would also receive decades later.

Beatriz originally sought a career in music education, graduating from the teacher’s college in Havana Escuela de Maestros de Kindergarten in 1949 and completed further studies in piano, solfeggio, music theory, harmony, composition, orchestration, history of music, music education and orchestra conducting at the Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade Conservatory of music and graduated in 1953. She exhibited in 1954 at the National Exhibition and the Biennial International Exhibition in Havana, which she would go on to judge starting in 1956. She graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" in Havana in 1955 and received a prestigious grant called the Bolsa de Viaje (Scholarship for Study Abroad) to study outside of Cuba. She traveled to Spain to take classes at the Prado Museum. She also became an advisor and professor at the Fine Arts of the Havana City Hall. She taught classes in anatomical drawing, coloring, art history and art appreciation. She had her first solo exhibition at the Havana City Hall's Hall of Mirrors in 1959, for which she won the Noble Havana Gold Medal. In that same year she had another solo exhibition at The Spanish Casino.

She and her husband, Leonardo Beatriz, a musician with a specialty in Spanish Regional music and an art restorer and appraiser who patented a canvas stretching method, moved to the U.S. on February 8, 1960 to live in Florida where Beatriz continued her career as an artist. Throughout the 1970’s and ‘80’s, her art was displayed in galleries and she received awards and recognition for her work. and traveled frequently abroad. In October of 1963 she exhibited her work at the "Loft on the Mile" Gallery of Art, Coral Gables, Florida. In Managua, Nicaragua at the Rubén Darío National Theatre she exhibited a collection of her works in 1971. Additionally in 1971, she was the recipient of a Lincoln-Marti Award. In 1972, a collection of Beatriz’s works was displayed in “Gallerie Jean Tiroche” in Palm Beach, Florida. Jean Tiroche had always displayed Impressionist and post-Impressionist artists from the Paris School but reportedly made an exception for Beatriz, who was from the Spanish School. In 1975 she became an honorary Member of The Hispanic International Research Institute of the city of New York. In 1982, she received the Orden de Isabel la Católica. The Director of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts Dr. Juan Contreras y López de Ayala the Marquis of Lozoya provided the recommendation that Beatriz be recipient of the award. In 1983, she was awarded the key of the City of Miami, and in 1997 she made a guest appearance in the T.V. documentary" Camino al Exito." She has been interviewed many times and she has been recognized and her work discussed in many magazines and other publications such as Marqui’s "Who's Who in the World," 1989-1990 and the book Raíces de Cubania by Dr. Ariel Remos .

During her career, Beatriz traveled extensively to paint at a variety of sites, including archaeological digs in Mexico, Italy, Portugal and Egypt as well as travels to Spain, Belgium, France, Austria, the West Coast of the State of Florida, and Venice. Art critic Jesús Hernández of Diario de las Americas notes that the works “reflect a strong presence in one of the main concepts of the Baroque, Romanticism and even Expressionism, mainly from Spanish streams.”

Her works are parts of permanent museum collections in Madrid, Spain at the Museo Español Reina Sofía and the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica, as well as in fine art museums in major cities in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Chile, and Mexico as well as in the U.S. at Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York and the Dayton Art Institute in Ohio. She also has produced two publications, A Quarter Century of My Life, which is an autobiography published by Dukane Press in 1972, and Dulce Beatriz: Oil paintings, drawings, silver point, sculptures, engravings, which is a collection of work edited by the Beatrizs with a foreword by Charles K. Szabo, published in 2009. In June 2007, she was interviewed by Rossi M., A, and Maurizio, G., for “La Isla Times” of Key Biscayne, Florida.

The Cutler Ridge Woman’s Club organizes and participates in a variety of civic and community service activities in Cutler Ridge and southern Florida.

The Cutler Ridge Woman’s Club was formed in 1956 when the Welcome Wagon Club of Cutler Ridge disbanded in order to form a new club with more varied activities. A charter and by-laws were drawn up and presented on 31 July 1956. The club was officially created on 28 August 1956, when 39 women signed the charter. The officers from the Welcome Wagon Club became the club’s first officers, with Mary Crum as the first president. The club adopted the hibiscus as the club flower and selected flamingo and white as the club colors.

The club has six committees: the Arts Department, Conservation Department, Education Department, Home Life, International Affairs, and Public Affairs. These committees coordinate the club’s numerous civic, community, and social activities.

Examples of the club’s community and civic engagement over the years include, but are not limited to: sponsoring girl scout troops; sponsoring scholarships; supporting schools and education; library programs; supporting youth camps; mental health forums; migrant children's programs; supporting Special Olympics; street lighting projects; Salvation Army bell ringing; supporting cancer research; environmental poster contests; and sewing contests; as well as hosting yard sales, card parties, breakfasts, and other fundraising events for various causes.

Leslie Harris is a professional photographer from Miami, Florida. She received a BFA in Fine Art Photography in 1974 from the University of South Florida. Harris also studied in the Fine Art Photography graduate program at the University of South Florida from 1974-1975. She then opened a studio in New York City, shooting for Allied Chemical, Sylvania, Ortho, and other companies.

After five years in New York, Harris moved to Miami and opened a studio. She did photography, including ads, packaging, and billboards, for numerous national companies, including Entenmann’s, Celebrity and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Boboli, Thomas English Muffins, Pollo Tropical, Bacardi, Kraft Foods, Nuestra Gente Magazine, Aurafin and OroAmerica, CD Peacock, SA Peck, Sears, Omni magazine, Bride magazine, Baby Times Magazine, Blockbuster, and many others. She has had work exhibited in shows and galleries in Miami, Tampa, West Palm Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, San Francisco, New York, and other cities. In addition, she has had works commissioned by galleries and museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Odyssia Marlbrough, Droll Kolbert, and Salander O’Reilly.

Harris was the first woman admitted into the South Florida chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers, and she was also the first person accepted upon the first review of her portfolio. She is also a member of the New Orleans Photo Alliance.

Laurence Donovan was a poet, artist, and English professor at the University of Miami.

Donovan was born in 1927, and grew up in southern Florida. His parents were Ruth and Laurence Donovan, and he had one brother, Patrick. His father was best known for publishing Doc Savage novels under the alias Norman Danberg.

Donovan served as a private in the Army Corps of Engineers in the Philippines from 1945-1946. Following his military service, he graduated with an A.B. from the University of Miami in 1951, and an M.A. in 1954. He also completed one year of Ph.D. coursework at the University of Iowa in 1957. Donovan taught English at the University of Miami from the 1950s through the 1980s, first as an instructor, and then as a professor. He passed away in 2001.

Laurence Donovan is best known for his poetry, much of which was inspired by Florida’s natural beauty. His poems were published in literary journals across the nation. An avid artist, Donovan was prominent in the Coconut Grove art scene in the 1960s. His artwork was featured in numerous exhibitions and it was frequently published, sometimes accompanying his literary work. Donovan also wrote book reviews for the Miami Herald for many years.

Max Rameau is the foremost and most publically known activist with Take Back the Land. He also leads the Center for Pan-African Development, and has worked extensively with Brothers of the Same Mind and Cop Watch in the past. At the cusp of the housing crisis, Rameau invited several other South Florida-based black activists to meetings held at Marleine Bastien's office, a group that later became known as the Black Response to the Crisis Group. The group decided on taking action in the form of taking over public land and asserting black political leadership over that land. The first action taken was the erecting of the Umoja Village Shantytown, and later housing liberations and eviction defenses. As Take Back the Land progressed to the national level and took on the shape of a movement, Rameau remained its most vocal proponent and figurehead. He has since relocated to Washington D.C. to take on the role as an alternative voice on the housing crisis more strongly. Rameau is a Pan-Africanist by worldview and in political theory, although he no longer frames Take Back the Land as a Pan-Africanist or Black nationalist project.

Guillermo Rosales (1946-1993) was a Havana-born Cuban novelist most well-known for his short story collection El juego de la viola (1968), for which he was selected as a finalist for Cuba's Casa de las Américas literary competition.

Working as a journalist and writer in Cuba, Rosales left the island in 1979 for Spain, eventually settling in Miami and living between halfway houses. His experiences in Miami served as material for his autobiographical novella, La casa de los náufragos (1987).

Rosales suffered from schizophrenia throughout his life. He committed suicide in 1993, destroying the majority of his work before he died. An English translation of La casa de los náufragostitled The Halfway Housewas published posthumously by New Directions in 2009, and a collection of short stories, Leapfrog (New Directions, 2013), is forthcoming.

Dr. Rafael F. Risco was a cardiologist with a practice in his native city of Camaguey, Cuba, until the year 1960. After fleeing Cuba in October 1960, he became a member of the counter-revolutionary organization Rescate Revolucionario Democrático. The group was part of the larger organization, Frente Revolucionario Democrático.