Clayton P.

Solomon
Ambassadorial 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.co
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