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Mayor Eileen Higgins Flipped Miami by Listening
In 2025, Eileen Higgins was elected the first female mayor of Miami and the first Democrat to lead the city in nearly thirty years. She beat a Trump-endorsed candidate by close to twenty points—in neighborhoods where many residents were skeptical of Democrats.
Higgins left a corporate career to run the Peace Corps in Belize, served as a diplomat, then won a county commission seat representing Little Havana. Now she's mayor of one of America's most immigrant-shaped cities.
Sarah McCammon sat down with Mayor Higgins in Miami to talk about building affordable housing, what it actually takes to…
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