Bio
Bio, quick intro
Cami Green Hofstadter holds two law degrees and a PhD in educational leadership. In addition, she has certificates in Diplomatic Law (Hague Academy of International Law, the Netherlands), and International Organizations (University of Geneva, Switzerland). She spent her academic career at the University of Miami School of Law and Florida International University Graduate School of Education while all along nurturing her lifelong passion as a writer.
An award-winning author in the human-interest genre of the Tales2Inspire series https://www.tales2inspire.com/, Cami has also written widely about the role of the foreign consuls who function throughout our communities while continuing to explore the history of the Jews in Scandinavia during World War II.
As said in other places of this website, Cami Green also served as honorary consul of her birth country (Finland) in S. Florida and as Secretary of the Consular Corps of Miami.
Bio, more in my own words
The best preparation any person gets is the life she’s led. While I grew up in war-torn Helsinki, Finland, I had a growing awareness of having spent my early life on the outside looking in, never quite fitting in as a Swedish-speaking Protestant. It was in my beloved America where life truly began for me.
In Miami, I found acceptance among new friends who introduced me to Jewish culture and traditions, and family values I hadn't experienced before. Still, I couldn't understand their curiosity about the King of Denmark during World War II. I had told them I was a Swedish-Finn, not a Dane, so what was all this about Denmark? Besides, I was the honorary consul of my birth country, Finland!
Although I was also busy being a wife and mother, time had come for me to start learning. Not just about the war-time Jews in Denmark and Finland, but in the rest of Scandinavia.
When the University of Miami School of Law hired me to administer a graduate program for lawyers and judges from around the world (the same track where I had received my M.C.L.) it was obvious there was a good fit between my law school position and that of an honorary foreign official, since both combined to open doors in foreign recruitment trips and meetings with past graduates abroad. In fact, I soon made history by modeling our fledgling globalism for other law schools; – this experience is now documented in the archives of the permanent collection of My Miami Story https://museumofmiami.org/cami-hofstadter/
Along the way, I was active in many organizations that shared the goal of preparing coming generations for the new global community. Here are a few examples: AALS (Association of American Law Schools) Section on Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers (founding president; newsletter editor); Florida State Commission on International Education (University of Miami Law School Representative); NAFSA: Association of International Educators (member and national Parliamentarian).
Among other unique qualifications are my proficiency in reading all Scandinavian languages, my scholarly background, and that I – through my ongoing lectures and writings – understand what my audience wants to know about the war-time history in the four Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden; all with their own unique experiences. Depending on the venue, I also include Greenland and Iceland.
On the personal side, as a widowed mother of two grown sons, I list among my current interests pickleball, golf, and ballroom dancing. A plethora of cultural offerings in South Florida adds yet another dimension to my life, which is also interspersed with cruising to other parts of the world.