Honorary Guest
Mayor Rachel Streitfeld, Esq.
Streitfeild is the mayor of North Bay Village. She was born and raised in South Florida. She majored in Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science at The George Washington University. Initially intending to become a diplomat, Rachel studied Arabic and spent a semester living in Cairo, where she attended the American University and lived on the Nile River. Rachel is now an attorney practicing law in the areas of land use, zoning, the environment, local government, and climate adaptation. She is a die-hard Miami Heat fan, a PADI-certified scuba diver, and every once in a while, she enjoys an escape to chase waterfalls in western North Carolina
Panelists
Joshua E. Jomarron chairs the board of the Social Impact Movement. In Miami he launched Ripple Impact Strategies, a boutique consulting firm dedicated to helping social enterprises and nonprofits with funding and scaling strategies. Additionally, he serves on the Young Professional Boards of Junior Achievement Miami and Casa Familia. As the Co-founder and President of Key to Knowledge, Joshua has significantly improved educational opportunities for over 450 students in Guatemala, Honduras, Cuba, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico.
Scarlet Lanzas is a nonprofit management executive working with public and private sector agencies, nonprofits, and international development and humanitarian organizations. As Chief Community Officer at Emergent Global Investments, she focuses on the development of Environmental, Socia,l and Governance (ESG) metrics, research and development of technology and financial services related to impact investing. Scarlett is also the founder of Accountable Impact and a co-founder of the Social Impact Movement, Scarlett is a Hispanic Star Ambassador, a national collective effort to unify and elevate Hispanics in the US.
Legal Expert
Theresa Pinto is the co-founder, staff attorney, and policy analyst for People’s Economic and Environmental Resiliency Group, a nonprofit law firm working for environmental justice and community sustainability in the Greater Miami region. She is faculty and the Director for Civic Engagement at the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy at the University of Miami. Formerly she was an environmental scientist researching evolutionary ecology in symbiotic fungal systems at FIU and at Berkeley.
Juliana Gorina is a J.D. candidate at the University of Miami School of Law and serves as a law clerk for Ms. Pinto. Ms. Gorin brings practical experience from her internship at the University of Miami Center for Ethics and Public Service, where she supported projects at the intersection of environmental justice, policy, and public interest. Committed to climate resilience and community advocacy, her work aligns with the school’s Environmental Justice Clinic and reflects a growing focus on policy-driven solutions for local environmental challenges.