{"id":24,"name":"Sam\u00ed Haiman-Marrero","url":"","description":"<strong>Sam\u00ed Haiman-Marrero<\/strong>\u00a0is the President\/CEO of URBANDER,\u00a0a Minority and Women Business Enterprise (MWBE) solution-based agency that assists the corporate, nonprofit and government sectors overcome their Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Multicultural Marketing challenges.\u00a0Under Sam\u00ed\u2019s leadership, URBANDER was awarded with the Orlando Business Journal\u2019s 2020 Diversity In Business \u201cHelping Hand\u201d Award for their caused-based work and its impact on underrepresented and underserved communities.\r\n\r\nSam\u00ed is one of the nation\u2019s leading experts specializing in the U.S. Hispanic market. Her career started over 25 years ago working in Public Relations, Marketing and Publishing companies headquartered in New York City. Career highlights include handling the first-ever Spanish language media effort for a U.S. Presidential candidate which led to winning the highly coveted Hispanic vote in 1996, becoming the Publisher of a national Spanish-language magazine, and being interviewed by international, national and regional media such as The Wall Street Journal, El Nuevo D\u00eda (Puerto Rico), Huffington Post, MSNBC, Florida Trend magazine, NBCnews.com, and Canada\u2019s CBC News, regarding the Latino experience in the U.S.\r\n\r\nHaiman-Marrero holds a Master\u2019s in Communications from the University of Puerto Rico, and was recognized as one of the 25 Most Influential Hispanics in Central Florida in 2016 by VISION Magazine. She has served on several prestigious boards such as Visit Orlando, United Arts, the Hispanic American Professional and Business Women\u2019s Association, the Hispanic Business Initiative Fund\u2019s TAC committee (Orlando chapter), the University of Central Florida\u2019s Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) Community Engagement Council, and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Orlando\u2019s Supplier Diversity Council. In 2019, she was appointed by Orange County Florida Commissioner Maribel G\u00f3mez-Cordero to the county\u2019s Arts and Culture Council, where she also serves as Chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee (DEI), and she was invited to be an Official Delegate of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Latino Leadership Summit held at the United Nations by the We Are All Human organization.\r\n\r\nAs a dedicated community leader, Sam\u00ed co-Founded Proyecto Somos Orlando in 2016, a culturally competent community program that assists survivors and families impacted by the Pulse tragedy. And in 2017, she decided to launch a nonprofit organization, SOS by Urbander, after the devastating impact of Hurricane Mar\u00eda on her beloved Puerto Rico, which now hosts <em>Talleres de Bienvenida<\/em> (Welcome Workshops) and the Azalea Project which she also co-founded. SOS is also the fiscal sponsor of Del Ambiente and Gender Advancement Project (GAP) which focus on providing programs and support to LGBTQ+ people of color.\r\n\r\nAlong with her husband Scott, Sam\u00ed is head-over-heels for son Pedro, daughter Catalina, and the family\u2019s Lab\/Pit mix, Oreo.","link":"https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/author\/shaiman\/","slug":"shaiman","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a703311888a049230f92b030f51e1ae15fd8a3381d8d690065f575953cf69b90?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a703311888a049230f92b030f51e1ae15fd8a3381d8d690065f575953cf69b90?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a703311888a049230f92b030f51e1ae15fd8a3381d8d690065f575953cf69b90?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"acf":[],"elementor_introduction":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}