Each year, over 7 million tourists visit the Dominican Republic. However, most of the planes that leave the Caribbean island are taking these people home. Very few are transporting Dominicans on trips of their own. “It’s shocking that so many people can’t leave their country,” Camilo Convers says. “Anyone can come, but natives can’t leave.” […]
Features December 2022
Kasey Ortoski – Jacobs
Est. reading time: 5 mins
At the start of her career, Kasey Ortoski knew she was helping society as a teacher, spending nearly half a decade imparting knowledge to kindergarteners as well as second and fourth graders. Since leaving the classroom in 2019, she’s found a new way to make an impact—as a contract operations manager handling IT at Jacobs. […]
Alan Schomaker – Loyola University New Orleans
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The National Hurricane Center calls it the “cone of uncertainty”—the projected track of a hurricane for five days measured from its current position. New Orleans—and Loyola University—were in the cone of uncertainty eight times in 2020 as three tropical storms and two hurricanes struck Louisiana. That vulnerability to storms, as well as a 45-year-old IBM […]
Christopher Maynard – American College of Healthcare Executives
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Christopher Maynard has been leading IT teams and guiding technological transformations for more than 35 years. But it’s where he’s applied those skills—and the causes behind that work—that matter the most to him. “My career has always been in the nonprofit sector,” he says. “That’s been intentional. I want to work for organizations making a […]
