Notable Figures

There are few figures in contemporary South Africa who provoke as much passionate debate as Zandile Dabula. She is not a politician who rose through party structures, nor a celebrity who stumbled into social commentary. She is, by all…

Who Was Bushy Maape? There are politicians who seek power, and then there are those on whom power is thrust — because the circumstances of their time leave no room for bystanders. Kaobitsa "Bushy" Maape belonged firmly in the second…

Monica Tibbits-Nutt is an American transportation policy executive and public servant who has dedicated her career to improving public transit systems in Massachusetts — a state whose transit infrastructure, particularly the Massachusetts…

Stephanie Abrams is one of the most recognizable faces in American television meteorology — a Weather Channel personality whose combination of genuine scientific expertise, energetic on-camera presence, and willingness to broadcast live…

Loran Livingston is a Baptist pastor and preacher who has led Central Church of God in Charlotte, North Carolina for several decades, building it into one of the larger and more influential evangelical congregations in the Charlotte…

Jim Vena is one of the most experienced and respected railroad operating executives in North America — a career railroader who spent decades working his way through the ranks of Canadian National Railway before retiring and then being…

Paola Ramos is a journalist, author, and television correspondent whose career has been dedicated to documenting and amplifying the stories of Latino communities in the United States — particularly the communities that mainstream media,…

Joby Martin is the founding and lead pastor of The Church of Eleven22 in Jacksonville, Florida — a church he planted in 2012 that grew from a small gathering into one of the fastest-growing and most attended churches in the United States…

There are two kinds of civil servants in India. The first kind becomes famous — they appear in newspapers, generate controversy, and are known even outside their state. The second kind simply works. They move from department to department,…

There are police officers who spend entire careers in comfortable anonymity — and then there are those who, through a combination of ability and circumstance, suddenly find themselves leading an investigation that the entire country is…