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A Spirit for Change

Danny Lafuente ’05 distills RE’s mission into a sustainable spirit
by Linda Robertson

The Simple Spirits company is one of the numerous brainchildren of Danny Lafuente ’05.

Lafuente calls himself a serial entrepreneur, which is another way of saying he is a procreator of ideas. He’s got so many ideas that one of his most successful ventures, LAB Miami, is a nerve center for generating ideas. 

Simple Spirits sprang from his mind as a combination of two ideas: Sell vodka and fight hunger. Enjoy a cocktail while simultaneously giving food to someone in need. Convert vice into virtue.

List of 2 news stories.

  • Allison Freidin '03

    A New Take on Graffiti

    Sofia Andrade ’19, Photos by Suzanne Kores
    Allison Freidin ’03 puts graffiti on the world stage

    Well before Wynwood became the mega-commercial, tourist-heavy district it is today, known for the vibrant murals that helped catapult Miami atop the international contemporary art scene, attorney Allison Freidin ’03 was already taking note of the area’s rich diversity of artists making the district their canvas.
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  • Illustration by Noa Garcia ’27

    The Art of Writing

    Matt Margini, Upper School English Department Coordinator, Illustration by Noa Garcia ’27
    When Jeff Freundlich Lindsay ’70 transferred to the Ransom School after a couple of years at Ponce De Leon Junior High, he immediately wanted to do one thing: get into Dan Leslie Bowden’s English class. At the time, Bowden required prospective students to write an essay explaining why they wanted to take the course. Lindsay concocted something suitably lofty: “It is my ambition,” he wrote, “to emulate the verbiage of the great writers.”
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