Rebecca Anderson

Rebecca Anderson

The Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina – in Appalachia – have long been home to the poorest communities in the state. So in 1994 Rebecca Anderson, now 67, used her two decades of experience in community and economic development to drum up a...
Richard Niederman

Richard Niederman

As a practicing dentist, Dr. Richard Niederman was all too familiar with the threat untreated tooth decay poses to underserved populations, especially children. Dental infections are the most common chronic early childhood disease – five times more common than...