Meet the Team
Angela Smith
Senior Director, Youth Programs
Angela’s roots are intertwined within South Florida, as a graduate of the University of Miami, her love for the community is inspiring. She just recently joined the Miami Marlins Foundation team as the Senior Director of Youth Programs, although Angela has been with the Miami Marlins for 22 seasons!
Smith champions the Miami Marlins Foundation’s Wellness pillar, which includes programs addressing food insecurity as well as initiatives that promote a healthy, active lifestyle. In this role, she is developing relationships with youth baseball & softball leagues and organizations across South Florida to ensure that youth in our community have a chance to play the game she so loves. Angela also oversees the Foundation’s involvement with social impact projects and our military.
Sarah Garcia
Director, Foundation & Community Initiatives
Sarah lives and breathes baseball. Born and raised in South Florida, Sarah started her softball career at the tender age of six. Her love of the game is infectious to this day and drove her to play throughout her collegiate time at George Wallace Community College in Alabama, The University of West Florida, and later graduated from Florida International University with a degree in Marketing.
Sarah is a detailed- oriented, self-starter that enjoys working within a fast-paced environment, her zest for life in sports led her to start her career with the Marlins as an intern. She then spent time working with a local multicultural marketing agency, where she gained experience with strategic planning, managing, and executing experiential activations ranging from special events to community events.
Sarah is an accomplished community management professional with experience in grassroots initiatives. Garcia takes pride in her leadership abilities, ensuring the quality of her work is efficient and effective. She has worked tirelessly to achieve her goals by maintaining meaningful client relationships to successfully deliver objectives and goals, leading her to become the Director of Foundation and Community Initiatives. Sarah believes, "hard work always pays off, and then it's your duty, to pay it back to the community."
Jamal Knibbs
Manager, Youth Programs
Jamal's passion for sharing baseball with our community's youth is infectious. Having grown up in Miami, he loved watching the game, but never had the opportunity to play as a child. As a Miami Marlins RBI Alum, he took the unique path of picking up a bat for the first time at 15 years of age. Through his role at the Foundation, Jamal has been working tirelessly to pass along to the next generation, the valuable life lessons the world of sports taught him.
Knibbs began his career by interning with the Miami Heat Community Affairs department, where he set-up a 'Black History Month Trivia Contest' between high schools in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties. This internship led to his first job as a Video Coordinator with the University of Tulsa Women's Basketball team. Throughout this experience, he learned the importance of taking leaps of faith within the spectrum of his career, because it allotted Knibbs the opportunity to travel and explore himself. Later as an Equipment Manager/Video Coordinator with the WNBA's Tulsa Shock, Jamal experienced the art of working with professional athletes and a hall of fame head coach, whose talent prepared him for the stakes that come along with the world of professional sports.
Jamal is a savvy, observant, and driven individual who refuses to take no for an answer. Looking back, he wishes he'd been exposed to the game at an earlier age with programs like Jr. RBI. Demonstrating precisely why he is so passionate about seeing young children use the power of sports to grow, not only within the game but as leaders in the community. When the going gets tough, he leans on the quote, "what man has done; men can do."