Alvaro F. Fernandez is editor and publisher of Progreso Semanal and Progreso Weekly. In 2000, Fernandez created the Latino Vote Project in the southeastern sector of the U.S. Since then Fernandez has been responsible for the registration of more than 100,000 new minority voters in the United States.
Fernandez also serves as president of the Cuban-American Commission for Family Rights, an organization created in support of family reunification. A community activist and organizer, he served as volunteer director of Miami Beach Second Thursdays, a monthly celebration of the arts he founded as former vice chair of the City of Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council. During that period, he was instrumental in the successful fight to eliminate a non-constitutional law that prohibited Cuban musical groups and artists from appearing in Miami-Dade county-owned venues.
