Category: People

Stacy Shannon of GoKart Kids

“You really get to know these kids. They respond well in that environment, even the hesitant ones.” —Stacy Shannon, founder of GoKart Kids It was one of those lightbulb moments for Stacy Shannon. A single mother at the time, she was…

Shane Dittmar

by Samantha Gratton
photography by Eamon Queeney

My Girl Friday

  “If we’re supported in our professions, we tend to be happier in them.” —Margaret ‘Austin’ Macfarlane, founder and CEO, My Girl Friday Margaret ‘Austin’ Macfarlane was a seasoned nanny when she founded My Girl Friday. Her business is a…

Poker Face Girls

by Katherine Poole
photography by Eamon Queeney

Nick Neptune

by Catherine Currin
photographs by Eamon Queeney

Barbara Brown

Since 1983, Barbara Brown has been “loving on the babies,” as she says, in the early childhood program at Edenton Street United Methodist Church. That is 35 years of holding fussy babies, rocking them to sleep, feeding them everything from…

Brave Enough Author Kati Gardner

“Growing up, I read all of the books about kids with cancer and everybody died. It was frustrating … because I lived. And I knew a lot of kids who lived.” Kati Gardner was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare and…

HOPE Inside Center for Financial Education

There’s more hope: the second Raleigh HOPE Inside center is now open in North Raleigh on New Hope Road. The center provides complimentary financial education to young people and low-income families. A branch of national organization Operation HOPE, visitors to…

Casey Gallas

“I don’t necessarily know what everyone does or even their names, but I recognize them, and that makes you feel part of a community.”
—Casey Gallas, barista, lucettegrace

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