Women Making A Mark

In 2012, after her husband Ryan was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, the restaurant community hosted a benefit dinner to help the couple pay medical bills. Overwhelmed with gratitude, the couple decided to form a nonprofit, The Giving Kitchen, to assist other metro Atlanta restaurant workers in crisis.

Eighteen-year-old, Spelman student Mary-Pat Hector's campaign Think Twice urges people to pause before picking up a gun.

There is something unexpected about Dr. Meria Carstarphen, the forty-seven-year-old superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools. Maybe it's that she's a hugger ("you should have seen my dad at church," she says), or that, instead...

Rachel Epps Spears has some great stories, but she isn’t at liberty to tell them, thanks to strict confidentiality agreements. As executive director of Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta, Spears’s organization helps Georgia-based nonprofits...

Atlantans have access to hundreds of apps that let them check the weather, keep up with friends, or simply order dinner. Kiran Ebrahim wondered why local abuse victims didn’t have an app to connect...

After an inexplicable miracle caused her son's tumor to disappear, Kristin Connor decided to dedicate her life to curing childhood cancer, something she does everyday as executive director of CURE Childhood Cancer.

Carol Waddy believes it’s a privilege to serve the community. “I find satisfaction in knowing that the smallest act of service is potentially changing the trajectory of someone’s life,” she says.

Growing up, Liz Gillespie spent more time outside than inside. It’s fitting then that now, as partner and vice president of marketing at North American Properties, she promotes outdoor living.