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FL Regional team

Counting Albanian Americans in Florida.

NAR — the National Albanian Registry — is the community-led count. 132 counted in Florida so far.

2 ambassadors organizing the count locally.

Director of Outreach

National outreach director.

Sets cross-state strategy and recruits state directors. Florida's ambassadors report up here until a state-specific director is seated.

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Iliriana Sela

Director of Outreach · National

Florida ambassadors report to Iliriana.

Ambassadors in Florida

Regional ambassadors on the ground.

  • Nalvi Duro headshot

    Nalvi Duro

    Regional Ambassador

    NAR Secretary. Bioinformatics scientist in Tampa; President of the AANO Tampa Chapter.

    nalvi@albanianregistry.org

  • Mikel Murati headshot

    Mikel Murati

    Regional Ambassador · Clearwater/Tampa/St petersburg

    For years, I’ve been actively involved in the Albanian community through organizing events, building connections, and bringing people together across the Tampa Bay area. I’m excited to help grow this project and make it as impactful as possible for Albanians throughout the United States. • Secretary of AANO Tampa Bay Chapter • Founder of Albanian American Community of Tampa Bay From soccer tournaments and networking events to Albanian parties, car parades, Cars & Coffee gatherings, and many other community events, my goal has always been to create unity, culture, and opportunities for our community. Let’s continue building something bigger together.

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Why Florida matters

A real count is where the work starts.

ACS 2024 estimate

17,470

Federal count

Community estimate

69,880–87,350

Methodology page

On NAR today

132

From Florida

Capture rate

0.76%

vs. ACS

As Florida's Albanian community becomes visible in the data systems institutions actually use, the recognition story gets stronger — for bilingual-ballot petitions in jurisdictions with significant limited-English Albanian populations, for hospital interpreter staffing, for school home-language reporting, and for university heritage programs. None of these unlock automatically from a count; they come from sustained organizing on top of one. The Census ACS stays the official federal source; NAR builds the parallel community count alongside it.

Florida concentrations

Tampa Bay, Jacksonville, South Florida

Florida is the fastest-growing Albanian destination outside the Northeast. Tampa-Hillsborough and Jacksonville-Duval are the working concentrations.

Florida ranks in the published ACS Albanian-ancestry counts at 17,470 (2024). Nationwide the Census counts 224,000 Albanian Americans while community estimates put us close to a million — and the same gap shows up here. NAR is the community-led parallel count that sits alongside the ACS, one self-attestation at a time.

Read the full methodology →

What's happening in Florida

3 upcoming events.

Festivals, services, fundraisers, and community gatherings the Florida team is tracking.

See all Florida events →

Organizations in Florida

15 Albanian organizations.

Religious institutions, charities, schools, and cultural associations — free to list, claimable by the people who run them.

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Businesses in Florida

13 Albanian-owned businesses.

Added by the owners themselves. Listing is free.

Own a business in Florida? Add it free →

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Join the Florida team.

Each state seats up to three Regional Ambassadors plus one state outreach lead. Volunteer role. Listed publicly. Reimbursed expenses for one local event a year.

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