What: Underline Teen Ambassadors from Breakthrough Miami are giving free tours every Saturday from May 15th to June 26^th at 9:30 AM or 11 AM. Each tour lasts 45 minutes. Sign up on Eventbrite here.

About Underline Ambassadors: The program pays rising high school students from traditionally lower wealth areas to lead fun and educational Saturday tours of The Underline’s phase 1 Brickell Backyard. The purpose of the Ambassadors Program is to empower our youth to lead with confidence through strong communication skills setting them up for a successful future.

Underline Ambassadors are sourced through a partnership with Breakthrough Miami.  The Breakthrough Miami program offers exceptional under-resourced students to be trained and mentored through the Friends of The Underline’s Ambassadors Program

Why: The Underline is a 10-mile linear park, urban trail, public art destination, and multi-modal hub located directly underneath the Metrorail. After completion in 2025, the park will extend from the Miami River to the Dadeland South Station. Currently, The Brickell Backyard portion of the park, from the Miami River to SW 13th Street, is open.  The Underline will provide Miami-Dade County with a transformational public space and will leave a lasting legacy of enhancing the environment, community, mobility and resiliency. We will apply all our learning so the Ambassadors, and others, will be the next generation of environmental stewards.  The Underline believes that this leadership development program will empower the youth involved and create a stronger connection between our community and our green space and instill in them a long-lasting pride and attachment to Miami

Details: Meet up 15 minutes before the tour start time at the Brickell Backyard Sound Stage at the corner of SW 1st Avenue and SW 8th Street. Tours begin in the Oolite Room at SW 13th Street (Coral Way) below Metrorail and end at the Miami River (Miami River Greenway). Guests should wear comfortable shoes and bring a hat. Friends of The Underline follows CDC guidelines for mask wearing and social distancing. 

Program Support: Friends of The Underline has launched our Ambassadors Program supported by the Al and Jane Nahmad Family Foundation in partnership with Breakthrough Miami.

How to get there: Walk or bike to The Underline Sound Stage at the corner of SW 1st Avenue and SW 8th Street. There is plenty of bike parking available. Or take Metrorail to the Brickell Metrorail station and exit north and walk 2 blocks to the Sound Stage. If you drive, please park at Brickell City Centre or nearby MPA parking on the street.

For more information about The Underline and our Teens from Breakthrough Miami program visit theunderline.org and follow us @theunderlinemia.

About The Underline 

The Underline is a planned 10-mile urban trail, linear neighborhood park and public art destination that will span from the Miami River, north of Brickell Metrorail station, to Dadeland South. The Underline project will feature dedicated bike and pedestrian paths, amenities, art, programming, lighting, native vegetation as well as safety features and improvements at road crossings. The Underline will be built in phases, the first of which will begin in the Brickell area. For more information, visit www.theunderline.org and/or follow them on social on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @theunderlinemia.

About Breakthrough Miami

Celebrating three decades as Miami’s Opportunity Generator, Breakthrough Miami uses a unique “students-teaching-students” model to create a rigorous, vibrant learning community, where highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented 5th-12th grade students are supported to achieve post-secondary success and emerging leaders are inspired to become the next generation of educators and advocates. Recruited in the fourth grade, Breakthrough Scholars benefit from an unparalleled 8-year tuition-free academic and social enrichment program. Serving 1300 Scholars, 130 Teaching Fellows, and over 400 Volunteers, Breakthrough Miami empowers students to catch their dreams in advancing an inclusive cycle of promise and prosperity. Founded in 1991, the Breakthrough Miami program operates throughout the school year on Saturdays and for six (6) weeks in the summer at six host site school campuses which include leading independent schools: Ransom Everglades School, Gulliver Preparatory, Miami Country Day School, Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart, and Palmer Trinity School, as well as the University of Miami. For more information, visit www.breakthroughmiami.org.