Award Winners
Nancy Bird: Bringing people, and organizations, together
Nancy Bird’s path to leading Johnson County’s premier economic development organization wound through Africa, Seattle, and a classified ad her mother clipped from a newspaper. Growing up in Washington, Iowa — the daughter of a farmer and a teacher —…
Drew Martel
Director of Crisis Services Foundation 2 Crisis Services AGE: 37 Best advice you ever received?…
Salina McCarty
Co-Founder and Managing Director Houses into Homes, Coralville AGE: 38 What was your first job?…
Megan Lehman
Work Based Learning Coordinator Kirkwood Community College, Hiawatha AGE: 28 Best advice you ever received?…
Diana Kremzar
Director of Family Services, University Human Resources University of Iowa AGE: 39 What was your…
Paola Jaramillo Guayara
Programs & Communications Coordinator Coralville Community Food Pantry AGE: 28 What was your first job?…
Beth Jaggers
Administrative Director University of Iowa Physicians AGE: 38 Best advice you ever received? Always use…
Elizabeth (Liz) Hubing
Director of Marketing, Community Development, and Entrepreneurship Iowa City Area Development Group AGE: 26 What…
Amy Hockett
Public Health Epidemiologist Linn County Public Health AGE: 36 What was your first job? Ice…
Nick Hatz
Principal/Civil Engineer Shive-Hattery AGE: 34 What do you consider your biggest break so far? Three…
Maggie Hartzler
School Based Program Manager Tanager Place AGE: 35 Best advice you ever received? Manage the…
Lyndsay Harshman
Physician University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatrics AGE: 37 What was…
Lindsey Greenzweig
Senior Talent Development Consultant Transamerica AGE: 38 What was your first job? Teaching dance and…
Kalvin Grabau Keele
Managing Partner Northwestern Mutual AGE: 37 What was your first job? Press-Citizen paper route. Who…
Shalisa Gladney
Coordinator Afro-American Cultural Center, Office of Multicultural Student Support and Engagement, University of Iowa AGE:…
Nicholas Garland
Operations Manager Nesper Sign Advertising, Cedar Rapids 29 Who do you consider your local mentors?…