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Kristin Connor
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.
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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,”...
Women Making a Mark: Lauren Koontz
As the first woman CEO and president of the YMCA of Metro Atlanta, Lauren Koontz shoulders a lot of responsibility.
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Jennifer Hidinger
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.
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Colleen Kiernan
Colleen Kiernan is a warrior. In her role as director of the Georgia chapter of the Sierra Club, she battles against power plants, plastic bag manufacturers, and deforestation. Admittedly, her work pulls her in...
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Diane Capriola
For Diane Capriola, books are more than a business; they are a way to save the world. The former child psychologist opened Little Shop of Stories in Decatur eleven years ago to share her...
Women Making a Mark: Lori Lane
Lori Lane, senior vice president of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Georgia, lives and breathes real estate. “I’ve always been that kind of person that my work is my social life,” she says.
Women Making a Mark: Jill Binkley
Better than anyone, Jill Binkley understands breast cancer. As founder of TurningPoint Breast Cancer Rehabilitation, an organization that treats people regardless of their ability to pay, she’s helped some 5,000 patients move through the various stages of treatment and recovery. She’s also lived that journey herself—twice.
Women Making a Mark: Carolyn Meltzer
A visual thinker, Carolyn Meltzer was drawn to medical imaging sciences because she appreciated using pictures
to solve a complex problem—to her, it
felt like putting a puzzle together. But at this stage in her career, the 59-year-old neuroradiologist is embracing a different kind of challenge.
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Cynthia Canteen-Harbor
Considering the odds, Cynthia Canteen-Harbor should not be a senior technical program manager completing enormous data projects for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For one thing, she’s a woman in a male-dominated...