ANDREW OTAZO is the author of El Mito de la Creación de Miami (independently published) and CEO of ARO Communications, a public relations firm. Prior to that he served as the Cuba Study Group’s executive director and worked at several other PR agencies. Otazo was a case writer at Harvard Business School, implemented foreign policy at the State Department, and was Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s assistant. He has removed 23,000 pounds of trash from Miami’s coast. Otazo was named to Brickell Magazine’s Top 20 Under 40 List and named Local 10 News’ Most Treasured Citizen, Miami’s Next Leader and FAES Latino Leader, and has received two proclamations from the village of Key Biscayne.