Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Miami

Writer at Miami's Community Newspapers

I'm a freelance writer who has worked in radio, TV and newspapers. Now I write kid's books. I have retired from organizing writing events.

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Positive people in Pinecrest : Zachary Rodriguez

1 week ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Palmer Trinity School senior Zachary Rodriguez loves to bowl. Knocking down the pins gives him great joy and even better, he is good enough to earn money from his sport. He plays competitively outside Miami. His freshman year, he started a bowling club at school to share his love of the sport and help students with his expertise. “I wanted to bring that community and aura around the school,” he says. “I brought in a coach (a teacher), but I was a coach myself. We had events, we had practices.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Florencia Nieto

1 week ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Palmer Trinity School junior Florencia Nieto is weaving her love of music and social justice in a concrete way that helps underprivileged children by creating the Melody Initiative. “I love music. I have been playing cello since sixth grade,” she says. “Music is like sports. It’s one of those things that I feel empowers people.”She’s a member of the school orchestra and she also sings in the Miami Children’s Chorus.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Veronica Segredo

1 week ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Palmer Trinity School junior Veronica Segredo started her own community service project this past year. Her first project last August was to conduct a supply drive with the supplies going to Miami Southridge Senior High School. “We collected items like pencils, pens, paper, notebooks, all the necessities,” she says. “We emailed them and asked what they wanted. We did it through an Amazon wish list. We sent them (the items) to my house.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Walker Ciorobea

4 weeks ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Music is important to Palmer Trinity School junior Walker Ciorobea so he eagerly joined his friend Florencia Nieto when she wanted to start a community service organization called Melody Initiatives. “Our mission statement is serving the underprivileged youth through the arts,” he says. “Especially music.”They have partnered with the Miami Music Project, a non-profit that gives children an opportunity to play their music after school for three to four hours.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Samira Moore

4 weeks ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Miami Palmetto High School junior Samira Moore has a passion for bees. Yep. Those busy yellow bees that buzz around collecting pollen and making delicious honey. Those bees that many of us are afraid of because they might sting us. But Moore knows that bees are actually quite beneficial. She’s a seventh-generation beekeeper. She says there are different bee species. “The Italian bees are the nice bees,” she says. “Africanized bees are aggressive. All bees will sting you.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Jake Hawkins

4 weeks ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Miami Palmetto High School senior Jake Hawkins volunteers at Friendship Circle every Sunday and during school breaks. He recently spent time with the special needs children who attended Friendship Circle’s Spring Break program. “We go over and be with the kids and we go on mini field trips,” he says. Hawkins is a member of the Friendship Circle’s President’s Council. The members meet once a month with the officials that run the organization.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Patrick Mizrahi

1 month ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

With some friends, Miami Palmetto High School junior Patrick Mizrahi created a non-profit organization called Focus Impact Foundation. “We started this non-profit to spread awareness about financial literacy,” he says. “We do presentations for teachers and students about the basics of finance and give useful financial tips for real life.”The group CEO, Oliver Gonzalez, is quite interested in investing while Mizrahi is more into finances. Both have done extensive research into financial literacy.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Indeah Lane

1 month ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Miami Palmetto High School junior Indeah Lane has started a website called I Teach Children History (ITCH). “I came up with the idea two years ago,” she says. “I started it this summer. It’s based on the Florida book ban. Florida has a book ban on the contents, which includes race, LBGTQ or Jewish topics like the Holocaust.”She says she wants to do something to bring attention to the book ban. “Even though I’m only in eleventh grade, I wanted to make some type of change on the issue,” she says.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Gabriella Alvarez

1 month ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Miami Palmetto Senior High School junior Gabriella Alvarez loves to write. “I would love to write a book one day,” she said. In college she plans to pursue journalism, communications and maybe study politics. Her interests in these fields began at Ammons Middle School, where she created The Scribble Society. Now she goes every other Wednesday to lead their meetings. “I’ve been doing this throughout junior year, and I created the club in sixth grade,” she said.
Positive people in Pinecrest : Marena Goodman

1 month ago | communitynewspapers.com | Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

Gulliver Prep senior Marena Goodman is Gulliver’s Silver Knight nominee in the Business category. Her Silver Knight project is called Community Keys, a non-profit she began at the end of her sophomore year. “The goal is to provide music opportunities for kids in underserved communities,” she says. “We wanted to give younger kids opportunities to take music classes, which we had the opportunity to take when we were kids.