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Dana Spinola
Dana Spinola’s goal is simple: “I want clients to walk into my stores and say, ‘Wow.’” As CEO and founder of women’s clothing boutique Fab’rik (it’s the phonetic spelling of “fabric” and pronounced the...
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Leah Ward Sears
Not everyone has the professional admiration of the U.S. President, but such is the exceptionalism of Justice Leah Ward Sears. The fifty-nine-year-old partner at Schiff Hardin, LLP caught President Obama’s attention in part because...
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Kathy Schwaig
Like father, like daughter. Kathy Schwaig’s dad was a Baptist minister, a skilled orator behind the pulpit but a man who was quiet in everyday life. Schwaig readily admits that she too is a...
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Merritt McAlister
In her teenage years at Paideia School in Druid Hills, Merritt McAlister was the only female lawyer in the Mock Trial Club. “I used to love tearing apart witnesses—I was a little aggressive,” she...
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Sharon Story
If you’ve had a child involved with any Atlanta Ballet dance program over the last twenty years, you’ve been impacted by Sharon Story. The fifty-something former professional ballerina oversees the Ballet’s Centre for Dance...
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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...
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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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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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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...