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For Pinecrest resident Jay Steinman making an impact on people and
trying to give something back to the community is an important part of
life. And, as a board member of the YMCA and a parent active in
academics and athletics, he's making Pinecrest a better place to live.
Jay Steinman
In 1997 Steinman joined the board of the YMCA and two years later
he was elected to the executive board. He's chairman of the facility
developing committee, working toward building a community center that
would service the Pinecrest and surrounding areas.
Steinman believes that having a community center with basketball
courts, tennis courts and other recreational facilities available is
vital to people of South Miami-Dade.
"In order to learn and to grow people need to have a positive
experience," said Steinman. "You've got to make it fun for
them."
Meantime, community academics and athletics are two other areas of
great importance for Steinman.
"Those are the two things that I did when I was growing up,"
he explained. "I played college football and I was an academic
All America."
Today, Steinman is a member of the Educational Excellence
Scholastic Advisory Committee for Howard Drive Elementary. The
committee works to establish a school improvement plan, concentrating
on the curriculum. As a parent, working on the committee has been
rewarding because it allowed Steinman to understand much more about
what goes on in the school.
As for athletics, Steinman has volunteered as a coach for both the
YMCA and the Howard Palmetto Khoury League. He began as a T-ball coach
in 1995 at the YMCA, then in 1997 coached a Khoury League baseball
team and for the last two years has managed league teams. He's also
spent some time on the gridiron coaching flag-football with the Y.
For Steinman, being involved in the community isn't something he
does on his own; it's a family affair.
Stienman's wife Riva is an assistant teacher at Bet Shira pre-school
and is very active in the community as well. She has been a Girl Scout
troop leader for seven years and on the Palmetto feeder pattern
executive board, which assists in assigning elementary school students
to junior high schools. She has been a Crime Watch chairman for the
last two years and on the committee for Baptist Hospital's annual
fundraiser gala for three years.
The Steinmans have three children, Rachel, 12, Gregg, 10 and Evan,
3. Rachel is on the student council at Palmetto Middle School and
enjoys playing the clarinet in the solo and ensemble class. Gregg has
played baseball in the Khoury league for two years and has been on the
all-star team for two years.
"We are all very involved in the community and we try to do
our best to help out and volunteer as much as possible," said
Steinman. "My thing in life is to make an impact on people and
try to do something to give back because over my career a lot of
people have been helpful in guiding me and I would like to give some
of that insight back."
Steinman grew up in Philadelphia and attended Dickinson College in
Carlisle, Pennsylvania where he played offensive guard on the football
team. In 1980, he moved to Miami to go to the University of Miami law
school.
Steinman is a shareholder in Carlton Fields, a Florida law firm
made up of 185 lawyers. He is a business attorney and deals with real
estate and corporate matters.
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