WHO
WE ARE
MLKEDC was founded as an all-volunteer neighborhood-based organization with a charge to preserve and revitalize the Martin Luther King Jr. vision to reclaim the dream. As a non-profit community development corporation, MLKEDC is comprised of neighborhood residents, community leaders, community business people, and professional advisors. MLKEDC's goal is to restore the area to the proud, economically diverse, and viable community that once existed as it maintains its historic character while preventing displacement of long-term residents.
TEAM MEMBERS.
PRESIDENT | CEO
AMINA M. MCNEIL, ESQ.
Amina McNeil was born and raised in Detroit Michigan. After graduating high school, Amina attended the University of Michigan where she earned her Bachelor Degree in English. From there she attended Howard University School of Law, and graduated with a Juris Doctorate in 2005.
That same year, Amina moved to the magic city, where she eventually became a member of the Florida bar, and still remains in good standing today. With almost 20 years of legal experience, Amina has worked as a trial attorney in the areas of collections, foreclosure, personal injury and appeals.
Amina McNeil is the current President and CEO of the Martin Luther King Economic Development Corporation. Before her current role as president, Amina served on the Board of Directors of MLKEDC as the Secretary, and was a member of the board for over 10 years. Amina is married to attorney Arthur "Marty" McNeil, and they have one son together.
OUR BOARD.
AMINA MCNEIL
BILLY HARDEMON
CLEVELL JENNINGS
HELEN STEWART
IRIS T. GIBSON
JASON FORDE
OUR VALUES.
Throughout its forty plus years of service, MLKEDC has risen to meet challenges threatening our community and 2020 was no exception. Our response to the pandemic was swift. Within a week of the shutter in place order, MLKEDC implemented a hot meals program to address the food insecurity our senior community faced. The hot meals program not only provided nutritious meals for our seniors, it was an economic stimulus for our kitchen incubator participants providing more than thirty new jobs at a time when unemployment rose to its highest point in decades.