Mission Statement

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

SAVE Foundation Board Members

Juan Talavera – (Chairperson, Board of Directors) Juan was elected chairperson of the board in June 2006. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker now working as a care manager for Jackson Memorial Mental Health Hospital . He previously served on the SAVE board from 1996 to 2002 and served as volunteer coordinator for the organization during the same period. He is a graduate of the Miami Fellows Initiative, a leadership development program. He has volunteered for multiple organizations and served on several boards and committees. Juan previously worked as a psychosocial counselor for Health Crisis Network, serving individuals and their families infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
   
Mike De Cossio - Bio Coming Soon!
   

Judd Goldberg - Judd is a partner at the law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham where he practices in the area of labor and employment.  Judd has been a member of the Board since June 2005.

   

Orlando Gonzales - 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.
 
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.