Originally Dutch, Inge de Dreu now lives in Bogotá, Colombia. She’s a Business Consultant working on projects with companies and educational institutions, is now 27 years old and lives with her boyfriend and his two daughters. Ever since Inge was very young, she only wanted to work with horses. She’d…
Meet Inge De Dreu- Founder of InspiraTé, Manager of Touch of Love
Within the last 5 years Alezandra Russell has added a handful of new titles to her ever expanding resume: wife: social entrepreneur: traveler: foodie: and bi-continental citizen. Reluctant to fall into daily complacency Alezandra quickly woke-up to the brutalities facing our globe’s most vulnerable when she visited Thailand in 2009…
Meet Alezandra Russell – Chief Recycler of Recycled Child Project
Nate St. Pierre is the founder of ItStartsWith.Us, a global group of people committed to changing the world in just 15 minutes a week. He consults with organizations of any size on building and engaging community, while making it easy to mobilize their members to make a difference for others. Nate utilizes…
Race director, author, runner, coach, philanthropist and writer, Toby Tanser is the founder and only staff member of the charity organization Shoe4Africa. His latest and greatest project is trying to build Africa’s largest public children’s hospital. Tanser, a former professional athlete, lived with international athletes and their top coaches on…
Julie Nessen, Director & Co-Founder of the Young Entrepreneurs Alliance began the program with her father Robert L. Nessen to realize their joint vision for empowering at-risk youths through business ownership. This was natural extension of her prior experience teaching theater in adult prisons and troubled inner-city schools in New…
Meet Julie Nessen – Co-Founder of the Young Entrepreneurs Alliance
Pat Ford was born in Nebraska in 1948 and grew up in Idaho. He attended Columbia University in New York City and fled just short of graduation into some years of hibernation. At some point the Idahoan by accident became one by choice. He went to work for the Idaho…
Meet Pat Ford – Executive Director of Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition
Lisa A. Gatti, Founder and Executive Director of Pal-O-Mine Equestrian, began her career as a special education high school teacher. Today, she uses her horses as her teaching tool rather than books. Lisa’s accomplishments do not go unrecognized on local and national levels. She was chosen as the US Team…
Buzz Miller, founder and president of PACT, was a successful practicing attorney for 35 years prior to his full time involvement in the animal welfare industry. As President of Melvin B. Miller, Ltd. he specialized in business transactions involving real estate, tax, corporate, securities and partnership law. Buzz has maintained…
Paul Cothran is Vice President and Executive Director of VH1 Save the Music Foundation. In his position, Cothran oversees The Foundation, which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of education in America’s public schools by restoring music programs in cities across the country, and raising awareness about…
Meet Paul Cothran – Executive Director of the VH1 Save The Music Foundation
Scott Hed is the founder and Director of the Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska (SAA). The SAA is a program of the Alaska Conservation Foundation, an Anchorage-based non-profit. Scott’s background isn’t what one would typically expect when thinking of someone involved in conservation advocacy. But it’s a neat story. Scott grew…
Meet Scott Hed – Director of the Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska