People Archive

Fighting Hunger, Changing Lives

Georgia’s food bank network joins forces with 2,400 community organizations all over the state, united in a common purpose. It benefits those who serve and those who are served.

Patty Rasmussen

Covering The Civil Rights Movement

When getting the story was an act of courage, some Georgia journalists rose to the challenge. Most of them found that the story changed them, even as the movement changed their South.

Michele Cohen Marill

The Art of Homebuilding

One Museum Place in Midtown, across Peachtree from the Wodruff Arts Center, will be more than just another project for builder and museum benefactor John Wieland. It will be his new home.

Susan Percy

2006 Legal Elite: Criminal Law

Criminal Law

Georgia Trend 40 Under 40 2006

This year is quite a milestone in 40 Under 40 history. First, 2006 marks the 10th year in which Georgia Trend has sought to identify those individuals who will lead our state's commercial, cultural, academic and governmental institutions into the future.

Edited by Shannon Wilder

Swimming Upstream

PSC Chair Angela Speir, a self-described "Southern Christian lady," doesn't shy away from conflict. She's voted against all the rate increases that have come before her, and she's an outspoken critic of the behind-the-scenes political negotiations that are the commission's hallmark.

Katheryn Hayes Tucker

General Rodeheaver: A True Leader

As commander of the Georgia Army National Guard's 48th Brigade Combat Team, Brigadier General Stewart Rodeheaver put the community building tactics he honed in economic development with Georgia Power to work for the people of Iraq

Jerry Grillo

Carpet Maker To The World

Georgia's largest manufacturing industry supplies nearly 45 percent of the world's carpet, employs 45,000 workers and has a payroll that tops $4 billion annually. And it all started with tufted bedspreads sold along the sides of mountain roads.

Jerry Grillo

Making a Healthy Difference

Not all health care heroes hold MDs or wield scalpels. Meet six individuals who work behind the scenes in their hospitals and communities.

Mary Anne Dunkin

The Play's The Thing

Across the state, dozens of small theatre groups entertain audiences, enrich their communities and help a bevy of citizen-actors find their inner Hamlet.

Jerry Grillo