The following are some samples of my writing. As a strategic communications specialist working in advocacy and persuasion, I have written scripts for video ads which have received hundreds of thousands of views, press releases and media advisories which have resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars of earned media coverage, Op-Eds which have appeared in major media outlets, and more.
The American Rescue Plan includes funding for homeowners who are struggling to pay their mortgage, their utility bills, their property insurance or other qualifying expenses. The law prioritizes funds for homeowners who have experienced the greatest hardships.
Read More🖊️ Can you write Gov. DeSantis and tell him to veto HB 741? We should encourage energy independence, and we can’t afford MORE rate hikes. Click here to write him in just a couple of clicks:
Read MoreThe Florida Legislature passed a cruel new bill that would give businesses that support the puppy mill industry, like Petland, much more power to operate anywhere in Florida. The bill, SB 620, will now head to Gov. Ron DeSantis for his signature.
🇺🇸 🗳 ALERT: The Florida Legislature has just passed passed SB 524, the Anti-Voter Freedom Act. This widely criticized legislation creates a new "office of elections crimes" (the first of its kind in the nation), and diminishes the freedom to vote in Florida by adding new and confusing hurdles to voting by mail — a form of voting that many Floridians use, especially seniors and members of the military serving overseas.
Read MoreThis morning, in a 24-15 vote, the Florida Senate passed HB 741, the highly controversial and widely criticized legislation aiming to gut rooftop solar net metering in Florida. The Florida House also passed this bill last week; now the legislation will head to Governor Ron DeSantis for signature or veto.
Read MoreThe Florida Legislature just approved a new law that would put a tax on sunshine, kill thousands of good-paying jobs in the solar industry and impose new fees that would hurt low-income Floridians.
Our power bills are too high. We don't need a new tax on energy. What we need is energy freedom and support for good-paying jobs in Florida.
Read More🚨 Florida's local minimum wage laws are at risk. State lawmakers are pushing a bill which would repeal local minimum wage laws across the state. Take action: click and add your name to tell your state representatives and senators hands off our local living wage laws.
Read MoreSen. Ileana Garcia and Rep. Juan Fernandez-Barquin held a news conference in the Capitol on Monday to unveil legislation designed to protect Floridians from predatory foreclosure practices.
Read MoreOn Monday, January 31st, State Senator Ileana Garcia (SD 37) and State Rep. Juan Fernandez-Barquin (HD 119) will hold an event in the Capitol with affected homeowners and fair lending advocates, announcing new legislation designed to protect Floridians from predatory foreclosure practices from lenders and banks.
Read MoreThis week marked the beginning of the 2022 Florida legislative session, and we wanted to share some very exciting news with you. Two Florida lawmakers have introduced a bill in the House and the Senate to protect homeowners from the worst abuses of the mortgage and servicing industry.
Read MoreWe hope you’ve had a great holiday season and that you’re able to start the New Year with health and happiness. As we reflect on all that we have done together, I wanted to highlight all the good that we’ve done with your help.
Read MoreI wrote this organizing and fundraising email in December 2021, as it was becoming increasingly clear that the United States Supreme Court was considering overturning Roe v. Wade.
Read MoreThis piece, by investigative journalist Christopher Heath, ran in the Orlando media market, after we sent out our media advisory with the offer to connect reporters to storytellers in their area.
Read MoreOpportunity For All Floridians sent this press release to news outlets in the Orlando area, after conducting a series of interviews with everyday Floridians who were struggling to make ends meet because they couldn’t get the state’s unemployment system to pay them the benefits they were owed. This press outreach resulted in several local news stories.
Read MoreThis week, Governor Ron DeSantis unveiled his legislative priorities for his special session taking aim at what he termed “unconstitutional” vaccine mandates. The legislative package included a proposal that would expand unemployment benefit eligibility to those not complying with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. In response, unemployed Floridians who are still waiting for their own benefits spoke out about the current system. “The system is still broken,” several of them said. “What about us?”
Read MoreRecent data from the US Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey shows that there are more than 6.3 million households in the United States that are not current on their mortgage payments, and nearly 300,000 of those are in the state of Florida.
Read MoreFloridians who have struggled economically through the pandemic should not be living in fear of losing their homes when the state is sitting on hundreds of millions sent by Congress to help them.
Read MoreIn 2021, Floridians for Honest Lending held a press conference to publicize the story of José Torrado, a 91-year-old resident of Hialeah Gardens who was in danger of losing his home to a bank foreclosure over a $20 accounting error. Here is some of the earned media coverage of that event. NBC-owned Telemundo 51 (WSCV) and Univision Miami (WLTV) are the first and second rated local TV audiences in the Miami-Fort-Lauderdale DMA.
Read MoreFloridians for Honest Lending issued the following press release to call attention to an egregious case of an elderly man facing the prospect of losing his home over a $20 accounting error.
Read MoreIn the summer of 2021, as the communications director for Floridians for Honest Lending, I helped to organize a number of press conferences outside the home of Ana Lázara Rodriguez. Ms. Rodriguez, who was a former political prisoner held in Fidel Castro’s jails before she fled to the United States in the 1980s, claimed she was the victim of mortgage fraud, and was facing foreclosure as a result. Her attorney Bruce Jacobs asserted that her mortgage papers were fraudulent because they contained illegal “robo-signed” signatures on them.
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