SAVE Foundation - About Us

Mission Statement

SAVE Foundation, Inc.
To pursue equal rights for persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities through education.

SAVE Foundation Board Members

	Orlando Gonzales - (Chairperson, Board of Directors) Orlando Gonzales is an entrepreneur and educator who most recently successfully launched, and now owns and manages a thriving business in scholastic journalism with Jostens Printing and Publishing. Gonzales has exercised his interests and experience in fundraising and development, communications, and public relations with various private and non-profit organizations. Human rights, the proliferation of art and culture, as well as the defense of the first-amendment are the social causes that Orlando chooses to regularly champion. He earned a bachelor of arts in sociology from Georgetown University where he focused his studies in community service, race, culture, and women's studies. Orlando has lived in Miami since 2000 and was born and raised in El Paso, Texas.

	Abby Corbett - (Treasurer) Abby Corbett is an attorney in the Miami office of Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A., where she specializes in complex commercial litigation. Prior to joining Stearns Weaver, Ms. Corbett served as a law clerk for the Honorable Judge Paul C. Huck of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Before her clerkship, Abby was an Associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Covington & Burling LLP where she was a member of the corporate, real estate, and election law groups. While at Covington, she assisted several corporations and political candidates with federal election law issues. Abby is a 2006 magna cum laude graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. At Georgetown, she served as a Legal Research and Writing Law Fellow, President of the Georgetown Student Animal Defense Fund, and as a Law Fellow at the Human Rights Campaign. Before attending law school, Abby worked on various political campaigns, including managing a successful U.S. Congressional reelection campaign in 2002. A fourth-generation Floridian, Abby grew up in Central Florida and received her undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Florida Southern College where she majored in political science. Ms. Corbett is a member of the bars of the State of Florida, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

	Mike De Cossio - Bio Coming Soon!

	Juan Del Hierro - Juan is more than a volunteer. He is dedicated and active in a variety ways within the community. He is a founding member of Empowering U, a first of its kind non-profit organization which provides empowerment series for boys in the Miami-Dade Juvenile Justice Program. He is also active within Habitat for Humanity and oversees a partnership program for Community Partnership for the Homeless. Social justice has always been a focus of his time and energy, even while attending Florida State University and Florida International University where he studied Political Science and Economics. Currently, Juan works at Unity on the Bay as Director of the Sacred Service Ministry, overseeing their volunteer and outreach programs. He is also studying to become a Licensed Unity Minister. Aside from his position as a Board Member for the SAVE Foundation, Juan is the Co-Chair of SAVE’s Grassroots Action Committee mobilized to do the grassroots organizing it will take for Miami-Dade County to turn out the votes necessary to defeat Amendment 2 in November 2008.

	Mark A. Trowbridge - Mark currently serves as the President and CEO of the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce. He is the chief executive responsible for the day-to-day success of the 1500-plus member organization, working with volunteers engaged in the Chamber’s long-term economic development strategies and numerous community initiatives. Mark also serves on the board of the Beacon Council, Coral Gables Community Foundation, UM Citizens Board and the Advisory Board for Actors’ Playhouse. Mark has previously provided consulting services regarding Volunteer Management and Leadership Development to various organizations. He has worked with such community entities as the Orange Bowl Committee, the Lipton Championships, and International Pow Wow. Mark has also served as an adjunct professor at Barry University and St. Thomas University. His community involvement includes the Board of Governor’s of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, as well as past Chairman for Leadership Miami. Mark also serves as President-Elect on the national Board for the University of Florida Alumni Association and is a Past-President of the award-winning Gator Club of Miami. Mark is a member of the Miami-Dade County Park and Recreation Citizens’ Advisory Board, Chairs the Architectural Review Board of Miami Springs, and serves as a Director on the New World School of the Arts Foundation Board.