Every so often, we walk away from a conversation thinking:
Wow!
She’s beating the odds.
She’s changing lives.
She’s taking risks.
How does she do it?
Valerie Boyd
Valerie Boyd is a globe-trotting artist who highlights exemplary women through art
Photography by Jehadu Abshiro. t takes one step into Valerie Guth Boyd’s foyer to pinpoint two of her hobbies: painting and traveling. Most of the art hanging throughout the home [...]
Jennifer Bradford
Therapist Jennifer Bradford is passionate about helping women navigate their lives
Photography by Liesbeth Powers. t took a while for Jennifer Bradford to settle on a career path. As a child, she thought she wanted to be a teacher, like her [...]
Sandy Gaston
Antique aficionado Sandy Gaston has been selling items at Forestwood for years
Photography by Jessica Turner. ajolica pottery, a glazed pottery popular in Europe in the late 1800s, was one of the first items Sandy Gaston collected when she started antiquing. [...]
Tracey Nash-Huntley
Nonprofit board chair Tracey Nash-Huntley models looks and service
Photography by Liesbeth Powers. racey Nash-Huntley has an engineering degree from Georgia Tech, but she’s never worked professionally as an engineer. When she was a student at SMU, before transferring, [...]
Victoria Segal, Margot Phaneuf, Meg Dillon and Riya Malhotra
Four Hockaday seniors came up with a plan to distribute COVID-19 vaccines using ice cream trucks
Photography by Jessica Turner. hat started off as a class project for four Hockaday School seniors ended up in the hands of the COVID-19 Presidential Task Force. Victoria Segal, Margot [...]
Ananya and Anisha Sharma
These sisters from The Hockaday School created a pen-pal program that went viral
Photography by Jessica Turner. enior Pen Pals, a virtual letter-exchange program, is a nonprofit that aims to strengthen intergenerational connections between seniors and Generation Z and help with mental health [...]
Anh Vo
Anh Vo turned Cindi’s New York Deli into a local institution
Photography by Jessica Turner. hen Anh Vo decided to open Cindi’s New York Deli, it wasn’t because it was her dream. “We just tried to make a living, tried to survive, that’s all,” [...]
