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Deborah VanTrece
Deborah VanTrece has always been the underdog. The longtime flight attendant started culinary school in the wake of a workers’ strike that left her feeling vulnerable. She was one of the few Art Institute...
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Women Making a Mark: Sharon Mason
As president and CEO of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce, Sharon Mason’s job is to help build consensus on tough issues surrounding economic development. But where many see a stumbling block—a politically fractious county, region, and state—Mason, 39, sees an advantage.
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Kate Atwood
The woman leading ChooseATL, a Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce outreach to recruit and retain talent, wants students who graduate from the city's colleges to call Atlanta home.
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Mary-Pat Hector
Eighteen-year-old, Spelman student Mary-Pat Hector's campaign Think Twice urges people to pause before picking up a gun.
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Camille Russell Love
When former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell approached Camille Russell Love in 1998 about directing Atlanta's cultural programming, she turned him down. She told him she was happy as the owner of her eponymous Buckhead...
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Susan Booth
When asked what makes a play successful, Alliance Theater Artistic Director Susan Booth doesn't start in on box-office sales or positive reviews. Instead, she simply points to her heart, then to her head.
A graduate...
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Dr. Alpa Patel
If you’ve seen the headlines that “Sitting Is Killing Us,” then you’re familiar with Dr. Alpa Patel’s life’s work.
“I had one of the first studies in the U.S. linking sitting time and premature death,”...
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Candice Saunders
The CEO of WellStar Health System shows why the company she helms made Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For and Working Mother’s 100 Best Companies lists.
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Women Making a Mark: Denene Millner
Throughout her career, Denene Millner has focused on building platforms that highlight the experiences of African American people. The journalist and mother of two decided to start a parenting website, MyBrownBaby, in 2008 after noticing that black moms were rarely considered as an audience,
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Rachel Epps Spears
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...
