MIAMI HISTORIES & EVERYDAY HEROES – NONFICTION

BEATRICE A. BRICKELL pursued a career as an international trade lawyer in Washington, D.C. She earned a juris doctorate from American University's Washington College of Law and an LLM in International Law from Georgetown University. With a lifelong passion for the law, she also loves to travel and swim. Brickell has also enjoyed restoring old properties and recounting tales of Miami and old Florida learned from her Kellum and Brickell families.

CESAR A. BECERRA is a historian, writer, and adventurer whose projects and expeditions have been covered in major newspapers around the United States. He's the author of The Kaimiloa Project (Free Range Publishing) and five previous books. An author of several articles focusing on the Everglades, the Miami Herald called him “an Everglades Evangelist,” while The New Times named him “Miami's most Peripatetic Historian.” Born in Miami to Cuban parents, he honored his heritage by publishing an award-winning full-color weekly journal entitled Cuban Dreams, focusing on the Centennial of the Spanish-American War that impacted Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean. Becerra leads monthly boat tours in Miami and has paddled more than  400 miles in a kayak around the southern half of Florida. He teaches part-time at the Osher Institute of the University of Miami, Florida International University, and was a visiting lecturer at Miami Dade College.

HENRY GREEN is a professor of religious studies and the former director of Judaic and Sephardic studies at the University of Miami. He is the founding director of the MOSAIC: Jewish Life in Florida Project at the Jewish Museum of Florida at Florida International University, and Sephardi Voices, an audiovisual digital archive of Arab Jews. He is also the co-author of Jewish Miami Beach (Arcadia Publishing) with Paul S. George, Ph.D., and many other publications regarding Jewish Miami and human rights, including Jews displaced from Arab lands. He has served as a visiting fellow at Oxford University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

PAUL S. GEORGE is the resident historian at HistoryMiami Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate. A native Miamian, George is a Miami Dade Community College and University of Miami graduate. He holds a master’s and a Ph.D. in history from Florida State University, and has taught at Florida State University, Florida A&M University, Florida Atlantic University, the University of Miami, and Miami Dade College, where he holds emeritus status. George has written 17 books, including two award-winning titles, hundreds of articles, and numerous book reviews, columns, and unpublished manuscripts. He served as president of the Florida Historical Society, vice chairman of Miami’s Heritage Preservation Board, director of Broward County’s Historic Preservation Board, and president of The Wolfson Archives. He has curated several historical exhibitions at HistoryMiami and the Jewish Museum of Florida at Florida International University, and conducts award-winning history tours of Miami and surrounding areas. He has received several teaching awards, including from Wolfson’s National Society of Leadership and Success and the Dade Heritage Trust. George is a member of the Miami-Dade County Library Advisory Board and the Grievance Committee of the Florida Bar. He is currently the editor of the historical academic journal Tequesta.