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Rosie Gordon-Wallace (1951-) is the founder and curator of Diaspora Vibe Gallery and Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, which specialize in cultivating Caribbean and Latin American art with a focus on supporting emerging artists. Originally from Jamaica, Gordon-Wallace studied medical microbiology at the University of the West Indies and immunology and microbiology at the University of Manchester. She worked at the University of the West Indies before coming to the United States in 1978 to research at the University of Miami. She was working as a senior consultant for Searle Pharmaceuticals when she decided to focus full-time on her cultural endeavors in 1999. Since then, she has initiated and produced a variety of transnational creative programs that redefine the concept of “diaspora,” including the International Cultural Exchange program, the Caribbean Crossroads series, the Artist-In-Residence program, and numerous community-based outreach programs. Gordon-Wallace is active in the local community, serving on the boards of the National Performance Network, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, the Design & Architecture Senior High School, and Bay Shore Lutheran Church. She has received numerous awards for her contributions to the cultural community, including the In the Company of Women 2013 award for Arts and Entertainment and the Red Cross Spectrum award for culture. Mrs. Gordon-Wallace's interviewforms part of the Caribbean Diaspora Oral History Collection at the University of Miami Libraries Special Collections.

Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator was created to promote, nurture, and cultivate the vision and diverse talents of emerging artists from the Caribbean and the Latin American Diaspora through exhibitions,  artists in residence programs, international exchange, and education and outreach activities that celebrate Miami-Dade's rich cultural and social fabric. Diaspora Vibe is the 2013 Andy Warhol Initiative Grant Recepient.

Marilyn Gottlieb-Roberts has been a prominent independent artist since the 1960s and currently resides in Miami Beach, Florida. Her academic background includes a Bachelor of Arts from Goddard College (1975) and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Miami’s Painting and Drawing program (1977). Marilyn had a distinguished career as a professor of Art and Art History at Miami Dade College, where she taught for 27 years (from 1980 to 2007). Her commitment to the arts extended internationally when she served as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Jos in Plateau, Nigeria, from 2000 to 2002.

Throughout her career, Marilyn has exhibited her work in prestigious venues, such as the Hayden Planetarium, Clocktower, and Exit Art in New York City; Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Arts and Mobius Performance in Massachusetts; the Columbus Museum of Art in Georgia; the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama; and the Museum of Contemporary Art and Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art in South Florida.

In addition to her teaching and artistic endeavors, Marilyn published a book in 2017 titled “A Durable Table” through [NAME] Publications. The book documents her artistic reflections on constellations over the past 30 years, blending folklore, astronomy, mythology, and her own insights. She has also been working on a new project since the 1980s, a comic book format titled "A Durable Tale and Graphic Report with Almanacs," inspired by her childhood fascination with almanacs and her research into antique star lore during her Fulbright residency in Nigeria.

Marilyn’s artistic influence has impacted her former students, including the Florida-based artist Pablo Cano. She continues to live and work in Miami Beach, where she remains an active and vibrant contributor to the art world.

–Vanessa Rodrigues Barcelos da Silva
Graduate Student Assistant for Manuscripts and Archives Management, Summer 2024

Dr. Leon Goure was a political scientist, Sovietologist and expert on Soviet civil defense. He was born in Moscow on November 1, 1922 and his family immigrated to the United States in 1940 through Berlin and Paris. In 1943, he was back in Germany as an infantryman fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and later served in counterintelligence, where he used his fluency in German, French and Russian to interview Nazis and their collaborators who were being held after the war.

After discharge, he received an undergraduate degree from New York University in 1947, a master's from Columbia University in 1949 and a doctorate from Georgetown University in 1961. He became an analyst with the Rand Corp. in Washington in 1954 and in 1959 transferred to Rand's Santa Monica, Calif., branch, where he began to develop his ideas on civil defense. He also advised President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration on military policy in Vietnam.

In 1969, he moved to the University of Miami's Center for Advanced International Studies, where he was director of Soviet studies. In 1980, he joined Science Applications International Corp., a McLean consulting firm, and was director of Russian and Central Eurasian studies until his retirement in 2004. He was the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including "The Siege of Leningrad" (1962) and "Civil Defense in the Soviet Union" (1962).

Dr. Goure died on March 16, 2007 of congestive heart failure in Arlington.

[source: Joe Holley, Washington Post, April 5, 2007]

Dr. Leon Goure was a political scientist, Sovietologist and expert on Soviet civil defense.  He was born in Moscow on November 1, 1922 and his family immigrated to the United States in 1940 through Berlin and Paris.  In 1943, he was back in Germany as an infantryman fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and later served in counterintelligence, where he used his fluency in German, French and Russian to interview Nazis and their collaborators who were being held after the war.

After discharge, he received an undergraduate degree from New York University in 1947, a master's from Columbia University in 1949 and a doctorate from Georgetown University in 1961.  He became an analyst with the Rand Corp. in Washington in 1954 and in 1959 transferred to Rand's Santa Monica, Calif., branch, where he began to develop his ideas on civil defense. He also advised President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration on military policy in Vietnam.

In 1969, he moved to the University of Miami's Center for Advanced International Studies, where he was director of Soviet studies. In 1980, he joined Science Applications International Corp., a McLean consulting firm, and was director of Russian and Central Eurasian studies until his retirement in 2004.  He was the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including "The Siege of Leningrad" (1962) and "Civil Defense in the Soviet Union" (1962).

Dr. Goure died on March 16, 2007 of congestive heart failure in Arlington.

[source: Joe Holley, Washington Post, April 5, 2007]