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Meet Kristen
Dr. Kristen Rosen Gonzalez is a Miami Beach native whose parents met in the lobby of the Fontainebleau Hotel in 1972. She grew up on Miami Beach among Cuban exiles and the descendants of Holocaust survivors, splashing in pools and running around condo card rooms. Kristen went to college in Boston, but after graduation, she returned home to South Florida and settled in Miami Beach. Kristen has three beautiful children: Isabella (25), Pablo (21), and Franny (19) all Miami Beach Senior High graduates.
Kristen loves Miami Beach and plans to retire here in home on Alton Road in Mid-Beach, with here two kitties, "Nube and Laney".
In addition to serving on the Miami Beach Commission, Kristen is a tenured faculty member in the English and Communications Department at Miami Dade College, and a real estate sales associate with Beachfront Realty,
Kristen was first elected to the Miami Beach Commission in 2015 and became passionate about Art Deco Architecture. She has advocated for clean water in Biscayne Bay when no one was discussing the issue. She was pivotal in saving the Byron Carlyle Theater, the South Shore Community Center, Monty's and the redevelopment of the Miami Beach Marina, and the surface parking lots on Lincoln Road. She accomplished this by running grueling referendum campaigns, many times by herself, and fighting to protect the small-town feel of our island paradise.
Kristen holds her PhD in Higher Education Administration from Barry University, her Master of Arts in Communication (MA) from Barry University, and her Bachelor of Arts (BA) in French and Spanish Language and Literature from Tufts University in Medford, MA.