Interview segments from a Miami Herald article (bit.ly/Herald_FreedomTower) about the inauguration of the Cuban Exile Experience and Diaspora Cultural Legacy Galleries at Miami Dade College's Museum of Art + Design (MOAD). These and other exhibitions and cultural programs are housed in the iconic Freedom Tower, which served as Miami's "Ellis Island" for Cubans fleeing Castro. The exhibitions were co-created by journalists Luisa Yanez, Nancy San Martin and graphic artist Ana Larrauri in partnership with the College and the Miami Herald Media Company. Accompanying the journalistic, history-based panels and vitrines that convey the Cuban exile experience is a collaborative project by photographer Alexis Rodríguez-Duarte and stylist Tico Torres called Cuba Out of Cuba. Over the course of 20+ years, the couple has documented writers, performers, composers, designers and artists of Cuban heritage who live in exile. In the audio presentations, MOAD director Jeremy Mikolajczak provides an overview; artist and curator Angela Valella tells brief anecdotes of her arrival from Cuba; Torres and Duarte describe elements of the photo exhibition. George Fishman wrote the story, conducted the interviews and and produced the audio for the Miami Herald and www.wordharmony.com

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