Changemakers · Community
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7 changemakers featured by One Good Story Project on the topic of community.
Ann Oliva
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Ann Oliva
Chief Executive Officer, National Alliance to End Homelessness
Ann Oliva helped build the two federal programs that now sit on either side of the same question. Rapid re-housing is short-term,…
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Robin Wall Kimmerer
Botanist, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, author of Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a botanist and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor…
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Robin Danehav
Documentary filmmaker
Danehav spent years running production companies and filming for more than 600 corporate clients. In 2022 he took a big risk and…
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Matthew Desmond
Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He wrote Evicted after living for more than a…
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Katie Goar
President, Quadel
Katie Goar is the president of Quadel, a national firm that helps housing agencies and property owners run affordable housing programs. She…
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Helice “Grandma Sparky” Bridges
Founder, Blue Ribbons Worldwide
Sparky's premise is simple. Nearly everyone she honors tells her no one has ever told them they mattered. The ceremony exists to…
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Treger Strasberg
Founder & CEO, Humble Design
Strasberg’s idea is that furniture is what makes housing stick. A bed and a room that feels like yours turn a rented…
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Robin Wall Kimmerer
Botanist, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, author of Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a botanist and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor…
Learn more
Community
Robin Danehav
Documentary filmmaker
Danehav spent years running production companies and filming for more than 600 corporate clients. In 2022 he took a big risk and…
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Community
Matthew Desmond
Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He wrote Evicted after living for more than a…
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Community
Katie Goar
President, Quadel
Katie Goar is the president of Quadel, a national firm that helps housing agencies and property owners run affordable housing programs. She…
Learn more
Community
Helice “Grandma Sparky” Bridges
Founder, Blue Ribbons Worldwide
Sparky's premise is simple. Nearly everyone she honors tells her no one has ever told them they mattered. The ceremony exists to…
Learn more
Community
Treger Strasberg
Founder & CEO, Humble Design
Strasberg’s idea is that furniture is what makes housing stick. A bed and a room that feels like yours turn a rented…
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