Felipe serves as chairman of the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora (also known as “The Cuban”), having been elected as board chair in 2018 and re-elected in 2019. At the time of his election, the museum faced a financial crisis. In 2019, he announced the firing of the museum's director, Ileana Fuentes, and her daughter, Carisa Perez-Fuentes, who served as head of communications and design, after a split in leadership of the museum. Felipe accused Fuentes and her daughter of “kidnapping” the museum from the board of directors and mismanaging the institution. Under Felipe’s leadership, the museum was reorganized primarily as a history institution. He designed The Cuban's permanent exhibit, "The Cuban Experience," based on his time as a student at
Florida International University, where he worked with former Cuban political prisoners at La Casa del Preso in Miami. A critic of communism in Cuba, Felipe claims the museum is “an icon of freedom." == Miami Dade College ==