Tempe 05.31.2018

Ann Monahan

Growing up, my close friend has a brother who was diagnosed with MR, so I was exposed to individuals with developmental disabilities early on. I worked with Special Olympics, and the ARC in Michigan when I was in high school. Read more>>

Andrea Kaye Goodman

Oh boy, how much time do you have? Okay, you said “briefly” in a nutshell: Every Job I have ever had has always been in the service industry. I love helping others! My motto is “Everyday, work harder and harder on yourself… because if you become better, you can add more value to others!” Read more>>

Matt Howard

With 29 years of paint, body, and restoration experience on cars, motorcycles and everything in between Matt Howard has created an exceptional vision – Deluxe Customs. Matt and his employee’s constant attention to detail exceeds its customers expectations. Read more>>

Bird Mejia

When I was young, I heard Seal’s song Crazy, “In a world full of people, only some want to fly – isn’t that crazy?!” I knew then that I wanted to be one of those people who flies. So I worked very hard towards it. I earned an MFA in Creative Writing and an MLS in Youth Librarianship. Read more>>

Mary Ann LaRoche

As a sibling it was difficult to watch my younger brother Paul, who was diagnosed with autism when he was 3 years old, not have challenging resources for job development after he graduated from high school. Read more>>

Neal A. Lester

Dr. Neal A. Lester, Foundation Professor of English at Arizona State University, founded Project Humanities in 2010. This was during the US national economic downturn when many parents and their students were steering away from humanities majors and toward STEM majors. Read more>>

Sheera Gersh

I think the spirit of the beauty industry was always instilled in me, as I am the daughter of an amazing New York hair designer (Thanks Mom). I can remember being a young kid and playing “beauty parlor” with my friends. Call it fate, it was just inevitable I would later end up in beauty school. Read more>>

Jayla Jimenez

Now. I Am. Fitness started as my mere desire to want to take my active fitness lifestyle I’m passionate about and turn it into something I can provide as a service to others on a regular and ongoing basis. Having an active fitness lifestyle has always been a part of my life from playing team sports as a child throughout my years up through my final years in high school. Read more>>

Eva Louis

When I was in high school, I always knew I would want a consulting business where I could help others succeed. My entire career has been based on developing skills and learning how to work with corporate to small businesses as well as individuals and projects. Read more>>

Igor Fulman

I was born in the Soviet Union. I went to a school there, and later I studied at a university. I got a degree that was approximately equivalent to M.Sc. in mathematics. Then my family immigrated to Israel. Read more>>

Brett Campbell

Well I was originally a Ferrari Mechanic for Newport Imports in Newport Beach CA. I didn’t like the greasiness of working on cars be it a Ferrari or whatever, so I started working for a Custom high performance boat builder and built thousands of custom boats ranging from 18’ to 40’. I did this for 15 years. Read more>>

James Christensen

After my business partners opened a medical marijuana dispensary in 2013, the state started issuing new licenses for medical marijuana retailers in metro Phoenix, and we were lucky enough to land one. Thus began an intense, two-year labor of love that took us to where we are today. Read more>>

Rachel Mari Kimber

I have loved chocolate ever since I can remember. My first experiments were using high quality plain chocolate, melting it and adding flavors like cinnamon or orange essence, and then putting the melted chocolate into molds. Read more>>

Kelli Shallal

In college, I set out to lose a little college weight and did everything wrong. I came from a house that knew nothing about nutrition, so I knew nothing about nutrition except that salads were healthy. I counted calories too low and did an excessive amount of cardio. Read more>>