Founder Flashback: Jorge Plasencia
As Amigos for Kids celebrates 30 years, SocialMiami snapshots the achievements of its founder and Republica Havas chair, Jorge Placencia.
Jorge Plasencia, Philip Levine
Allison Freidin and Jorge Plasencia at the opening of the new home of the Museum of Graffiti in Wynwood
Jorge Plasencia, Miami Dade College President Madeline Pumariega, President of US Century Bank Luis de la Aguilera at the US Century Bank dinner in honor of the Council General of Spain, Ambassador Jaime Lacadena, Marquee of La Cadena at the home of Aida Levitan
Jorge Plasencia, Former Kelloggs CEO Carlos Gutierrez and Cesar Conde at the It's All About the Kids event at the JW Marriot to benefit the St Jude Children's Hospital
Jorge Plasencia and Jackie Nespral at the 2015 Amigo's Domino Night at Jungle Island.
Cesar Conde and Jorge Plasencia at the 2019 Amigo's Miami Celebrity Domino Night at Royal Caribbean Terminal 1 at Port of Miami
Jorge Plasencia, Katherine Fernandez-Rundle and Greenberg Traurig's Cesar Alvarez at Goya's 75th Anniversary book launch at the Bilmore hotel in Coral Gables
Rosa Maria Plasencia, Jorge Plasencia and State Senator Anitere Flores at the Amigos for Kids Miami Celebrity Domino Night at Jungle Island
Arsht Center Board Member Jorge Plasencia & Wendy Grant - 2017-18 Broadway in Miami Season Event
Satcha Dolgicer and Jorge Plasencia at the Voices Against Brain Cancer Foundation's Sounding Off for a Cure concert at the Fillmore
Jorge Plasencia with his mother Gilda at the 5th anniversary party of Republica
Adam Grossman and Jorge Plasencia at the Dolphins/Falcons pre-season game at SunLife Stadium
Jorge Plasencia and Helen Aguirre at the American Latino Influencer Awards at the Biltmore hotel in Coral Gables
Adrienne Arsht and Jorge Plasencia
Mike and Maggie Rodriguez at Jorge Plasencia 40th at Gary Nader Fine Arts Gallery in Wynwood
Brett Graff is SocialMiami.com’s managing editor and has been a journalist covering money, people and power for over 20 years. Graff contributes to national media outlets including Reuters, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Maxim, and the PBS show, Nightly Business Report. A former U.S. government economist, her nationally syndicated column The Home Economist is first published in The Miami Herald and then on the Tribune Content Agency, where it’s available to over 400 publications nationwide. She is broadcast weekly on two iHeartRadio news shows and is the author of “Not Buying It: Stop Overspending & Start Raising Happier, Healthier, More Successful Kids,” a parenting guide for people who might be tempted to buy their children the very obstacles they’re trying to avoid.
