Who is Miami-Dade mayor Daniella Levine Cava?
DANIELLA Levine Cava has served as mayor of Florida's Miami-Dade County since 2020. Levine Cava was in the spotlight in June of 2021 as she gave updates to the tragic Surfside building collapse. Daniella Levine Cava was elected Miami-Dade's first-ever woman mayor in November of 2020. She oversees a metropolitan government with more than 28,000 employees serving nearly three million residents. Levine Cava, who previously served as county commissioner representing District 8, is a social worker, lawyer, and community activist. Her bio reads: "As commissioner, she invested in Miami-Dade small businesses and expanded economic opportunity, protected the environment and our water, increased the County police force for underserved areas, advocated for an expanded, reliable public transportation system, worked to create affordable housing and revitalize neighborhoods, and helped make local government more accountable and transparent." 2 Daniella Levine Cava speaks during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami in June Credit: Getty  She is also the first Jewish mayor of the county. I am very proud to be the first woman mayor, Levine Cava told Jewish Insider. Im surprised there has not been one before. But it just seems very natural and normal to be here. "As far as being the first Jewish person to hold the post, we have a very strong Jewish community in Miami-Dade County, and circumstance would have it that this is my fate.  Former lawmaker Ron Klein, head of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, called the mayor an authentic leader. She was probably the right person for the right time, he told Jewish Insider. Most read in News MAGA FEST Trump takes the stage at Ohio rally as hundreds of fans cheer him on DEADLY SCENE Gunman 'kills two people after crashing stolen truck into building' 'TERROR' TANTRUM Michael Strahan's ex-wife 'arrested after harassing ex-girlfriend' KILLER HEAT 'Life-threatening heatwave' to hit US TODAY and bring record high temperatures HOPES FADING Signs of life 'GONE' as it's revealed tower was checked HOURS before collapse 'OUT OF HIS MIND' Biden 'is barely hanging in there' & US 'doesn't really have a leader'  She wasnt making up a story. It was her.  Levine Cava was born in New York and raised partly in Latin America. She is married to Robert Cava and they share two children, Eliza and Edward.