Leadership

2024-present: Board Member, Waterkeeper Alliance
2022 – 2024: Inaugural Artist-in-Residence, Miami-Dade County
2019-present: Committee of Scientists (COS), Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, White Mountains National Forest, Compton, NH
2019: Influencers, Miami Herald, Miami, FL
2018-present: Collaborator, McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER (Long Term Ecological Research), MCM McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
2018-2020: Chair, Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council, Miami, FL
2018: Influencers, Miami Herald, Miami, FL
2018-2021: Steering Committee, Climigration Network, Washington, DC
2017-2022: Board of Directors, University of Miami Alumni Association, Coral Gables, FL
2016-2019: Board Member, South Arts, Atlanta, GA
2008-2012: Vice Chair, Florida Council on Arts and Culture, Tallahassee, FL
2005 – 2020: Councilor, Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council, Miami, FL
2003 – 2005: Director, University of Miami School of Law Alumni Association, Coral Gables, FL
2000-2003: Executive Committee, Miami-Dade Community Relations Board, Miami, FL
2000-2003: Board of Trustees, Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Miami, FL
2000-2003: Board of Directors, Spanish American League Against Discrimination, Miami, FL
1997-1999: Advisory Board, University of Miami School of Law Children and Youth Law Clinic, Coral Gables, FL
1988-1998: Local Board Member, Selective Service System (Draft Board), Coral Gables, FL
1995-1997: Board of Directors, Health Crisis Network, Miami, FL
1994-1997: Chair, Juvenile Court Committee of the Dade County Bar Association, Miami, FL
1988-1997: Board Member, Vice Chair (1990-97), and President (1989-90), Regis House Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Abuse Center, Miami, FL
1991-1993: Chair, City of Miami Youth (Gang) Task Force, Miami, FL

Academic/Professional

2024 – present: Research Fellow, Princeton University Center for Migration and Development
2021 – 2024: Professor of Professional Practice, (secondary appointment), School of Law, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2020 – 2024: Professor of Professional Practice, (secondary appointment), Department of Pediatrics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL
2019 – 2024: Professor of Practice, Department of Art and Art History, College of Arts and Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2011 – 2018: Visiting Faculty Administrator and Artist-in-Residence, College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts (CARTA) and College of Arts, Sciences and Education (CASE), School of Environment, Arts and Society (SEAS), Florida International University, Miami, FL
2000 – 2003: Voluntary Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL
1998 – 2004: Voluntary Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL
1995 – 1997: Program Director, South Dade Development Program, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), Miami, FL
1992 – 1993: Research Assistant Professor and Director, Juvenile Violence and Delinquency Prevention Programs, Center for Minority Families/Center for Family Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL
1990 – 1992: Executive Director, Regis House, Adolescent Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center

Education

1987 – 1991 : Juris Doctor, School of Law, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
1986 – 1991: Master of Public Administration, Herbert Miami Business School, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
1982 – 1986: Bachelor of Arts, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
1993 National Leadership Fellows Program for Join Together, a National Resource for Communities Fighting Substance Abuse, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Xavier Cortada greets His Holiness Pope John Paul II during Jubilee Day for Artists.

In Search of Higgs Boson CERN: Cortada’s five giant banners hang at the CMS experiment facility where the the Higgs Boson was discovered.

Xavier Cortada and President Bush, 2002.

Xavier Cortada performs The Longitudinal Installation at the South Pole.

Xavier Cortada presents Antarctic "ice paintings" to Governor Crist and Governor Schwartzenegger at the Florida Conference on Global Climate Change.

Xavier Cortada arrived at the North Pole and planted a green flag to “reclaim it for nature.”

Xavier Cortada and Senator Graham, 1986.

Cortada with his mangrove paintings in his Brickell studio where he worked for 14 years until 2015.

Xavier Cortada with Governor Jeb Bush, Unveiling of the "Florida Mangrove" mural, Florida Capitol, 2003.

Xavier Cortada displays his mural convictim, which depicts the suicide of a teenage inmate at the Miami-Dade County Jail.

Governor Charlie Crist and Miami artist Xavier Cortada at the Governor's Mansion reception, October 2007.

Cortada posing with newly collected red mangrove propagules for his Plan(T) participatory eco-art project.