“When you exclude yourself from this community, it brings everyone down and backfires on you as well.” Miami girls get a bad rap. The term conjures notions of strappy stilettos, skintight dresses, and cringe-worthy pronunciations of “supposedly.” “Just look it up on Google,” Ekaterina Juskowski suggests. “All you get are sexually charged images of women’s behinds and breasts in bathing …
Ekaterina Juskowski, the Founder of the Miami Girls Foundation was featured as “One to Watch” in Miami Magazine‘s Philanthropy Issue, November 2015. Photo Credit: Ekaterina Juskowski by Zain Ali Shah. When Ekaterina Juskowski found herself in defense mode every time someone called her a “Miami girl,” she knew something had to be done. The Moscow-born artist and New-York transplant knew the term …