Opening Remarks from Black Miami Dade Founder, Nadege Green

Nadege Green
Director of Community Research and Storytelling, Community Justice Project, Inc.

Nadege Green is a journalist and community historian based in Miami. Her work centers the lived experiences of Black people in South Florida. Green’s practice and approach to storytelling is deeply rooted in history and first-person narratives that explore and connect issues around race, culture, climate justice and displacement. 

She is the director of Community Research and Storytelling at Community Justice Project, a local non-profit that supports Black and Brown people in Florida organizing for power, racial justice and human rights with innovative lawyering, research, and creative strategy tools.  

Green is also the founder of Black Miami-Dade, a history and storytelling platform that resists the erasure of Miami’s Black past. Earlier this year, she created the first ever exhibit in Miami to honor and uplift the history of Black LGBTQ+ Miamians called “Give Them Their Flowers.” The Miami Herald called it “the most relevant exhibit in Miami” at the time.  

Her reporting and essays have appeared on NPR, WLRN News, and in the Gravy Journal, the Miami Herald, The Atlantic and Harper’s Bazaar.  

Green is currently a Senior Civic Media Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Innovation Lab. She was the 2022 Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University’s Center for Black Visual Culture at the Institute of African American Affairs, and she was the inaugural Community Scholar in Residence at the University of Miami’s Center for Global Black Studies in 2021. 

A child of Haitian immigrants and former farmworkers, she was born and raised in the county of Dade where she is raising her two magical sons.