Joe Celestin, featured in this video, was the former mayor of North Miami for two terms. He is now in the running for District 2 Miami-Dade County Commissioner
The winner will replace incumbent Jean Monestime, the first Haitian American to be elected to the 13-member Miami-Dade Commission
District 2 includes portions of Miami, North Miami, North Miami Beach, Opa-Locka, Hialeah, and the unincorporated neighborhoods of Liberty City, North Dade Central, and Biscayne Gardens. Nearly half of its 200,000 residents are Black, many of them Haitian.