February 2, 2013
As a North Central High School senior, Kendale Adams went through a 100 Black Men mentoring program that paired him with a
police officer. By his senior year at Ball State University, he’d already begun the process of joining the Indianapolis
Police Department.
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February 2, 2013
The numbers tell Sarah Aubrey’s story: Since founding her grant-writing company in 2007, she’s secured nearly
$60 million for clients in 38 states. In an average year, she writes several hundred grants and boasts a 90-percent success
rate.
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February 2, 2013
Edward Battista owns the trendy Bluebeard restaurant in Fountain Square and is in the middle of law school at IUPUI. The last
time he slept, he jokes, was two years ago.
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February 2, 2013
Brad Beaubien came from Sioux City, Iowa, to Ball State University to pursue an education in landscape architecture and urban
planning. Give or take 75 miles, he’s still there.
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February 2, 2013
Ever since moving from Wabash to Indianapolis to attend Butler University, Linda Broadfoot has focused on ways to make Indianapolis
better.
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February 2, 2013
In the three years since Timothy Carter became Butler University’s first director of its Center for Urban Ecology, he’s
been busy defining the center’s vision, setting goals and building relationships within the campus as well as the Indianapolis
community.
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February 2, 2013
Strengthening relationships is key to Elizabeth Childers’ success. A marketing leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers, one
of the “big four” accounting firms, Childers nurtures the company’s ties to its communities, clients and
alumni in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio with frequent travel among four offices in the three states.
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February 2, 2013
Ask Jamar Cobb-Dennard who he is and he answers, “I am a businessman, community leader and future politician, speaker/author
and single father.
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February 2, 2013
Michael Crafton and his friends from Indiana University had grand plans after graduation: They wanted to be Mark Cuban.
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February 2, 2013
Katie Culp has amassed enough frequent flier miles to move up to first class frequently. That’s good not only because
she’s 5-foot-11 but also because she does a fair amount of traveling.
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February 2, 2013
Frank Dale has spent most of his career in the entrepreneurial world. Happily.
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February 2, 2013
For five years, Scott Fadness has focused on what’s best for Fishers. Three years from now, what’s best for the
town of 80,000 will include the end of his job, as the town becomes a city that will have a mayor to handle the work Fadness
now does as town manager.
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February 2, 2013
When Claudia Fuentes was elected Marion County treasurer in November, she became the first Latina elected to countywide office
in Indiana. She considers that milestone “huge.”
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February 2, 2013
Chris Gahl is passionate about his hometown. As vice president of marketing and communication for Visit Indy, he turns his
enthusiasm loose on meeting planners and travel professionals, showing them the best Indianapolis has to offer, which was
on display for millions in 2012 during Super Bowl XLVI.
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February 2, 2013
Ben Gale grew up in Anderson, graduated from Anderson University, left town for a few years and came back “committed
to being a positive influence in a community that’s really struggled.
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February 2, 2013
Andrew Held had an impressive law career going—as an Indiana University-Bloomington law student, he clerked for federal
Judge Sarah Evans Barker and Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Margret Robb before joining Hackman Hulett & Cracraft LLP
and then Bose McKinney & Evans LLP in its Real Estate Group.
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February 2, 2013
Michele Jackson splits her week between her Harden Jackson Law LLC firm, where she handles domestic adoptions and reproductive
law cases, and MLJ Adoptions, where she specializes in the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes heartbreaking world of international
adoption.
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February 2, 2013
As founder and executive director of Growing Places Indy, Laura Henderson sees the big picture. People making healthier food
choices feel better, and when many people feel better, the result is a healthier community.
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February 2, 2013
From frat boy to fundraiser to faculty—that’s how Matthew Holley describes his career trajectory.
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February 2, 2013
Hannah Joseph has a fondness for small businesses—the one she owns with her husband, Brent—King David Dogs—and the 150 or
so that are her clients at law firm Katz & Korin.
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February 2, 2013
Rob Laycock says that when he’s at work, there’s no better feeling than seeing Bankers Life Fieldhouse packed with fans. As
vice president of marketing for Pacers Sports & Entertainment, he has a hand in making that happen.
“It’s a collaboration
of everyone who works here,” he said. “This is a great organization, and I’ve been given a lot of opportunities.”
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February 2, 2013
Anyone who knew David Leazenby at Westfield High School must have figured he’d end up in some area of design and development.
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February 2, 2013
In 2009, Matt MacGregor was working as a consultant in Vietnam when Chuck Dietzen, the founder of Timmy Global Health, asked
him to apply for the executive director’s job at Timmy.
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February 2, 2013
Becca Manolov left Indiana 10 years ago to try something new. Now she’s back to promote something new—CityWay, the apartment/hotel/retail/YMCA
complex downtown.
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February 2, 2013
Jayson Manship’s job title is Lead Nerd.
Co-founder of Indianapolis-based inSourceCode, Manship and his 12 coworkers
write code for websites serving clients ranging from major political entities to professional sports teams. He has also done
the Web work for the two “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” projects in Indiana.
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February 2, 2013
As the corporate fundraiser for the Salvation Army Indiana Division, Mel McMahon is responsible for seeing that their red
kettles stay full to “do the most good.”
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February 2, 2013
Some people start on the ground floor. Josh Miles started in the basement, launching Miles Design LLC in his home.
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February 2, 2013
For the past few years, the Statehouse has been almost a second home for Lawren Mills.
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February 2, 2013
Doran Moreland discovered political science at Indiana University. After graduating in 2000, his real education in politics
began, working for Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, then U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh.
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February 2, 2013
Una Osili has one foot in the global community and the other in Indianapolis. A renowned researcher on philanthropic trends,
she also is a wife and mother who serves on St. Richard’s Episcopal School board and helped her husband, Vop Osili,
campaign for public office.
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February 2, 2013
In September 2001, Chad Pittman had a nice career going as a lawyer with Bose McKinney & Evans LLP, and his wife was about
to deliver the first of their now-four children. Then 9/11 happened.
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February 2, 2013
Dr. Matt Priddy makes house calls. At no charge.
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February 2, 2013
Sherron Rogers is up at 3 a.m. to hit the gym. “It works well for me,” laughs Rogers, a self-described high-energy person
who was recently promoted to vice president of patient support services at Indiana University Health. “I try to exercise a
bit, and get my day started with work.”
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February 2, 2013
In just four years, Michelle Study-Campbell has put Reach for Youth on firm financial footing while expanding its staff and
services. The not-for-profit offers counseling to Indiana youth and their families and works with the juvenile justice system
by operating a nationally recognized teen court for non-violent first offenders.
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It's also across the street from Fogo de Chao and Morton's....
Yep, the haters are trying to make good news bad. I guess it is hard to get people to believe the series is dying when they are gaining new sponsors.
David Copperfield! I remember watching his specials on TV when I was little.
Don't forget this is next to an MMA gym, a pawn shop, and some abandoned spaces.
Good project for Zionsville - A group who has owned the property for many years has waited and worked patiently to bring highest and best use development to a major corridor, and mix that in with the great downtown you have. Win Win. All the Best to Pittman Partners and Zionsville.