Rotary Presentation

Clayton P. SolomonAmbassadorial Scholar

District 6990

South East Florida, Florida Keys, Grand Bahama Island, Commonwealth

of the Bahamas

Coral Gables Rotary Club

“Consider . . . the way North America really works. It is Nine Nations. Each with its capital and distinctive web of power and influence.... These nations look different, feel different, and sound different from each other, and few of their boundaries match the political lines drawn on current maps....

Most importantly, each nation has a distinctive prism through which it views the world.”

Joel Garreau, writer for the Washington Post and author of The Nine Nations of North America.

Fast facts:

The “Sunshine State”

4th largest state in the U.S. -17,000,000 (compared to 20,400,000 in Australia).

2,900 kilometers of coastline (compared to 25,760 kilometers in Australia)

17 centimeters of coastline per person (compared to 1.25 meters in Australia)

Coral Gables

The “City Beautiful”

One of 31 municipalities in

Miami-Dade County

405,000 pop. (city of); 5.5 million (greater)

65.8% Latino / Hispanic; 35 % Cuban

22.3% African American / Black (many of whom are of Caribbean descent

How did I get here?

Service

Advocacy

Social Justice

“The first duty of government is . . .”

LLM, International Law

Focus on social justice

Areas of interest: corporations & human rights, disaster law, right to education, mediation of int’l conflicts.

The “Five Year Plan”

In other words . . . R.O.I.

email

clayton.solomon@gmail.com

phone

0450 168 050

website

www.claytondownunda.blogspot.com