The Miami Dade College (MDC) Foundation (MDCF) welcomed alumni, community leaders, donors, supporters and new board members to the Loews Coral Gables Hotel on June 5 for its annual Alumni Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, celebrating 12 MDC graduates who exemplify the power of education through outstanding professional achievement and leadership. The evening also marked a strong milestone for the Foundation as it raised more than $1 million in support of student scholarships.<\/p>\n
The newest class of Hall of Fame inductees includes:
Business \u2013 Bernie Navarro, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Peru, U.S. Department of State
Education \u2013 Historian \u2013 Dr. Paul S. George, Resident Historian, HistoryMiami Museum
Entrepreneurship \u2013 Joshua Pascual, Owner, Josh\u2019s Premium Meats
Hospitality \u2013 Emilio Cabrera, McDonald\u2019s Franchise Owner, EC Management Corp.
Law \u2013 Beatriz Azcuy, Managing Partner, Miami Office, Sidley Austin LLP
Non-Profit \u2013 Kamila Pritchett, President & CEO, The Black Archives History & Research Foundation of South Florida, Inc.
Philanthropy \u2013 Silvia Rios Fortun, President of Guardian Angels, Jackson Health System Foundation
Public Safety \u2013 Fire \u2013 Fernando Gomez, Chief Fire Officer, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue
Public Service \u2013 Senator Ren\u00e9 Garc\u00eda, County Commissioner District 13, Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners
Real Estate \u2013 Nestor J. Machado, President, Cawy Management Corp.
Sports \u2013 Francisco J. Martin, Head Men\u2019s Basketball Coach, University of Massachusetts
Technology \u2013 Ernesto Arguello, Co-founder and Co-CEO, CanWe app by Social Navigation Society<\/p>\n
In addition to honoring its newest Hall of Fame inductees, the Foundation also announced its 2026 Board of Directors leadership team, which will continue to guide the organization\u2019s efforts to support student success and advance Miami Dade College\u2019s mission through philanthropy and community engagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dade College (MDC) Foundation (MDCF) welcomed alumni, community leaders, donors, supporters and new board members to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-311068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}