#PeopleofImpact

Garfield Beezer once owned and operated a restaurant in his native Jamaica. These days, he cooks for a group of eaters so famously fickle they could strike fear in the…

Wendy Norman knows a lot about childhood brain development.  She’s an expert on effective parenting techniques.  She even helped write the curriculum she and her colleagues at Forty Carrots Family…

The morning we initially planned to meet Elizabeth Rosado to talk about her work, she had to deal with an emergency.  Liz spent most of the day at the hospital…

Did you walk inside the much-larger-than-life “living lampshade” at Selby Gardens’ Downtown Sarasota campus last year during its Tiffany-themed exhibition? Maybe you were mesmerized by the kaleidoscopic mirrors in the…

Sabrina Cummings loved exploring the outdoors as a kid.Born in Miami, she moved to Sarasota with her family as a 4-year-old—“a teeny-tiny transplant,” she says.  Because they now lived so…