Stephen Ross wants to build skylines.
He wants to build a champions.
And he wants to build bridges — not between shores, but between people.
Along with owning a billion-dollar real estate empire and a National Football League franchise, Ross has made his life’s mission to use sports to fight racism.
He created the RISE initiative after the Dolphins’ 2013 bullying scandal, which has reached tens of thousands of youths across the country. RISE is “a nonprofit dedicated to harnessing the unifying power of sports to improve race relations and drive social progress.”
Those efforts have not gone unnoticed.