professional experience:

Professional and Community Artist (1993-present)

Artistic Director for the following Miami-Dade Arts in Public Places sponsored programs: Master-Peace International (2001), Master-Peace 2000 (1999-2000),  Master-Peace Inaugural (1998-1999), and Public Art Transforming Housing--"PATH" (1999-2000)

Attorney-at-Law, Consultant and Motivational Speaker (June 1992-present)

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami School of Medicine, Center for Family Studies (1993-present)

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Miami School of Medicine (2000-present)

Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) South Dade Development Program (July 1995--July 1997)

Annie E. Casey Mental Health Initiative for Urban Children in East Little Havana, Miami, Florida, Interim Project Director (Nov 1993-May 1994)

Director, Juvenile Violence and Delinquency Prevention Programs and Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Miami School of Medicine Center on Minority Families/Center for Family Studies/ Spanish Family Guidance Center (Oct 1992-Nov 1993)

Executive Director, Regis House, an adolescent drug and alcohol abuse center in Miami, Florida (1990-1992)

leadership:

2004-present		Dade Cultural Alliance, Board member.
2003-2005		University of Miami School of Law Alumni Association, Director.
2003-2004		Vice Chair, Juvenile Court Committee of the Dade County Bar Association
2002		Candidate for Circuit Judge, 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida
2000-2003		Miami-Dade County Community Relations Board, Board Member and member of the Executive Committee.
2000-2003		Board of Trustees, Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Miami Florida.
2000-2003		Board of Directors, SALAD -- Spanish American League Against Discrimination, Miami, Florida.
1988-1997		Regis House Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Abuse Center, Miami, Florida
		President (1989-90) Vice Chair (1990-1997)
1988-Present		Local Board Member, Selective Service System (Draft Board)
1995-1997		Health Crisis Network, Miami, Florida
		Board of Directors Advocacy Committee, Chair
1997-1999		Children's Cultural Coalition, Board of Directors, Miami, FL
1997-1999		University of Miami School of Law Children and Youth Law Clinic, Advisory Board
1994-1997		Dade County Bar Association Juvenile Courts Committee, Chair
1993-1996		Dade County Juvenile Justice Council, Executive Committee
1993-1996		Miami River Neighborhood Restoration Corporation, Member
1993-1995		City of Miami City-wide Community Development Advisory Board
1993-1994		Founding Organizer and Advisor to Vecinos En Accion, a grass-roots neighborhood corporation in Miami's East Little Havana neighborhood
1992		Adolescent Juvenile Justice Task Force, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
1992		Founding Organizer and Facilitator of the Wynwood Youth Group in La Mission San Juan Bautista of Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Miami, Florida
1992		Member, appointed by the Metropolitan Dade County Mayor to the County’s Hispanic Affairs Advisory Board
1991-1993		Chair, Advisory Board to Metropolitan Dade County Hispanic Family Development Project
1991-1993		Chair, City of Miami Youth Task Force, Miami, Florida.
1991-1992		Hispanic Working Group Member, The Miami Coalition for a Drug-Free Community
1991		Panel Chair, Florida Foster Care Review Panel
1990-1993		Chair, Membership Committee, Dade County Prevention Network for Alcohol and Other Drugs
1988-1990		Vice Chair, City of Miami Mayor's Committee on Youth Gang Activity
1990-1991		Voting Delegate, American Bar Association House of Delegates
1989-90		National Vice Chair, American Bar Association Law Student Division
1987		White House Advance Team for the 1987 Visit to Miami of Pope John Paul II, Miami, Florida.

 

 

Xavier Cortada The artist works primarily in acrylic on canvas, although he has created numerous murals and has an impressive portfolio of drawings. Like his art, his civic involvement is aimed at effectuating positive, lasting social change.

 

selected consulting activities:

1995		South Florida Coordinator, Floridians for Access to Justice--a campaign sponsored by The Florida Bar, The Florida Bar Foundation and Florida Legal Services to preserve federal funding of the Legal Services Corporation
1995		Provided volunteer consulting through FAVA/CA to the people of Costa Rica.
1995		Central Rockies Prevention Project, a special project of Colorado's 5th Judicial District Attorney's Office. Served as a Community Development consultant and developed a Needs Assessment for Hispanics in Leadville, Colorado.
1994		United States Information Agency--Guest Speaker/Presenter in: Madrid, Spain; Lisbon, and Viseu, Portugal; Punta Delgado, the Azores; Freetown, Sierra Leone; Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa; Port Louis, Mauritius; Dar es Salam, Tanzania; and Nairobi, Kenya.

1994		University of Miami Center for Family Studies Adjunct Faculty and Consultant to:
		Shenandoah In Action: Drug-Free Schools Prevention Project, a grant from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and the U.S. Dept. of Education Drug-Free Schools Office Human Ecology Treatment for Hispanic & African American Substance Abusing Adolescents, a grant from the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
1994		East Little Havana Community Development Corporation--provided technical assistance in the development of the neighborhood agendas and strategic plan for the Metropolitan Dade County Empowerment Zone Application.
1994		United States Embassy in Bogota, Columbia, Narcotics Affairs Section-- Keynote Speaker for Surgir's International Conference in Medellin, Colombia.
1993		Washington State Migrant Council--Keynote Speaker for the Hispanic State Conference on Child Abuse Prevention and Intervention
1993		United States Information Agency--Guest Speaker in Honduras, Guatemala and Colombia
1993		Mid-South Summer School, University of Arkansas at Little Rock--Presenter
1992		United States Information Agency -- Guest Speaker in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
1992		Center for Substance Abuse Prevention National Volunteer Training Center -- Training of Trainers for Hispanics; Training of Trainers for the Religious Community
1992		Dade Community Foundation -- Neighborhood Grants Program consultant

 

professional papers/presentations:

Available upon request: Extensive presentations before civic and professional groups throughout the United States, Latin America, Africa and Europe.

Available upon request: Author of various published articles, including those in ABA publications and in international media; co- author of a CSAT monograph on Juvenile Justice treatment interventions, 1995; and co-author of eight articles and five abstracts in refereed clinical journals during 1983-1987.

 

REFERENCES:

Available upon request