Mileyka Burgos-Flores is a Dominican-American activist and community organizer with a background in nonprofit management, strategic planning, resource development, communications, and community economic development. She is the founding Executive Director of The Allapattah Collaborative, CDC- a placed based, nonprofit organization focused on implementing place making techniques to foster identity, supporting wealth building strategies for marginalized communities of color and advocating for policies/procedures that support equitable, comprehensive and sustainable community development.  

Mileyka holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Miami and a master’s degree from Florida International University. She has dedicated much of her time to advocating for social justice in marginalized communities by establishing and assisting organizations focused on developing youth, empowering people, celebrating culture. She is an advocate of strategies that foster sustainability, identity and economic vitality in immigrant communities of color.

In 2017, Mileyka was selected as a “Neighborhood Hero” to join a group of community activists who lead social innovation projects to forward the City of Miami. She is also the founding Vice President of Miami Next Leaders and a previous board member of Dade Heritage Trust, Allapattah Community Advisory Council, The Advocate Program and FIU Research Center for Minority Institutions. She is a 2016 University of South Florida Community Real Estate Development Fellow, 2017 Miami’s New Leader’s Council Fellow, 2018 Radical Partner’s Leadership Lab Neighborhood Heroes Fellow, 2019 University of Miami Community Scholars in Affordable Housing and an alum of the 2019 NALCAB’s Pete Garcia Community Economic Development Fellowship. Mileyka is a 2022 Center for Community Investment Fulcrum Fellow, focused on establishing shared equity community ownership models to prevent displacement and enhance wealth building in disenfranchised neighborhoods.