88- NADINE SMITH — Executive Director, Equality Florida
All you have to do is hear Nadine Smith speak in front of a crowd to know that she is a force to be reckoned with. As the co-founder and CEO of Equality Florida, the state’s largest organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Smith has done incredible work. A former award-winning journalist turned organizer, Smith was named one of the state’s “Most Powerful and Influential Women” by the Florida Diversity Council in 2013.
In October, Equality Florida launched ‘Unete a Nosotros, a Spanish-language campaign for LGBT rights. The project was conceived by Susanna Taddei, director of the Girasol Foundation, in conjunction with Smith. “Equality Florida is all about inclusion,” said Smith. “So it’s entirely appropriate that we reach out to Floridians whose first language is not English. The issues facing LGBT people — and their solutions — are the same in any language.”
