In little more than two years, Keith Parker has overseen a turnaround in the metro region’s 35-year-old transit system – and not a minute too soon. In recent years, MARTA was perennially referred to as “beleaguered” or “troubled,” as though…
Georgia is known for a lot of things – peanuts, peaches, beautiful coastlines, bustling cities and mountain retreats. It’s also known for having a lot of counties – with 159, it’s second only to Texas. And that makes for a…
Take a look at a campus map of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), and you know right away that this is an unusual institution. SCAD’s more than 80 buildings in Savannah, many of them renovated pieces of…
Alana Shepherd comes every day to volunteer at the Shepherd Center, the private, not-for-profit hospital she and her husband Harold and son James founded 40 years ago in Atlanta to specialize in treatment and rehabilitation for people with spinal cord…
The Shepherd Center’s Alana Shepherd and SCAD President Paula Wallace are the 2015 recipients of the state’s highest honor.
Robert Balentine Chairman and CEO, Balentine, Atlanta Brandon Beach State Senator (R-21); CEO, Greater North Fulton Chamber, Alpharetta Freddy Bensch Big Kahuna, SweetWater Brewing Co., Atlanta Mohammad Bhuiyan President and CEO, Yunus Creative Lab Inc.; CEO, 2015 World Summit of…
Georgia Trend’s 2015 list of 100 Most Influential Georgians includes, as always, some new names and some old ones, as leadership changes and recent achievements combine with resignations, retirements, course corrections and shifts in power to shake the list up.…
Bill Bolling Founder & Executive Director Atlanta Community Food Bank Decatur Age: 66 Bill Bolling doesn't say he is retiring from the Atlanta Community Food Bank, the powerhouse nonprofit he founded in 1976 and where he has served as executive…
University System Chancellor Hank Huckaby has brought a new stability to Georgia’s public colleges
This December marks the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War’s surrender of Savannah, where in 1864 Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman ended his infamous March to the Sea. His scorched-earth tactics changed the history of warfare and are still studied…
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