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Winnetka’s MINDY TURITZ spent her childhood cutting up fashion magazines to make collages for her room in Kansas. Post college, she set her sights on New York City where she spent the next ten years building a career in marketing and brand strategy for brands like Polo Ralph Lauren and Chanel. “I loved seeing new

Hailing from Orange County, California, current Wilmette resident, ERIN MCCARTHY, is living her lifelong dream of working as an artist, designer, and small business owner. About four years ago, McCarthy had an “aha” moment when she realized her fine art photographs of flowers, plants, trees, lakes, and streams could be digitally manipulated into surface pattern

Allison Bruce is a “intentional” jewelry artist and award-winning writer. As founder of Flourish Integral Health, her mission is to help people feel cared for, empowered, and elevated. She is also a columnist for Energy Magazine. Bruce says it was “a time of despair followed by the pursuit of joy” that led her to develop

Asked to serve as Ragdale’s President of the Board of Trustees in the midst of a pandemic and a nationwide reckoning with racism following George Floyd’s murder, BETH BOYD saw an opportunity to help the nonprofit serve its artists better and smarter in a changing world. Indeed, over the past two years Ragdale has built

Board-certified neurosurgeon DR. SHERI DEWAN practices at Northwestern Medicine by day and studies business and finance at the University of Oxford by night. She completed her neurosurgery residency at Brown University and has a graduate degree from Northwestern University. Dr. Dewan donates her time performing charity surgery in Southern India and sits on multiple charity

“Teachers, by Inspiring students to soar, are heroes! Every month, not just May, should be Teacher Appreciation Month!” says Winnetka’s RONI MOORE NEUMANN. Along with her husband Rob, Neumann has four daughters who are graduates of District #36 and New Trier High School. Their youngest daughter Emma, in fact, joins her class of 996 students