Maribel A. Pizá is a child of immigrants and a nationally renowned immigration attorney with three South Florida offices and two radio shows. She is a proud Cuban-American who has devoted her legal career advocating for migrants’ rights.

Maribel is also an entrepreneur and investor in various media, entertainment and restaurant ventures. She is the senior partner, board member, and legal counsel of RetroPop Con, a throwback pop culture convention.  

Prior to relocating to Florida in 2006, Maribel was an Assistant District Attorney in New Orleans, where she graduated from Loyola University with a JD/MBA in 2002.  She served as a Judicial Law Clerk in Civil District Court in Orleans Parish for the Honorable Sonja Spears.

Maribel got an early taste in business in 1992, when she and a partner bought New Orleans’ Dixie Tavern on Canal Street. Maribel regained the bar’s lost live performance license and developed a recognized live music venue that nurtured local talent and was featured on MTV and VH-1.

Prior to New Orleans, Maribel attended the U.S. Coast Guard Academy from 1986 to 1989 after graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy Prep School in Newport, Rhode Island.

An avid volunteer, Maribel is on the Advisory Council for the Cleveland Orchestra in Miami. She supports tomorrow’s young artists and immigrant students through the Alma Hispana arts scholarship in Palm Beach County and Casa Maya in Lake Worth.