In Their Own Words

DR. THERESA GRAVES is a surgeon and coordinator of Lifespan’s Avenues of Healing, an annual event for cancer survivors and their families. / COURTESY LIFESPAN

Five Questions With: Theresa Graves

In Their Own Words 10/17/2016

Dr. Theresa Graves, director of the Breast Center of the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Lifespan and director of the Center for Breast Care at...

Leukemia Lymphoma Society Man of the Year Kevin O’Neill with LLS Boy and Girl of the Year Nicholas Harrington and Grace Duffy. / PHOTO BY JOHN BORZAIN

Five Questions With: Kevin O’Neill

In Their Own Words 10/14/2016

As founder and managing partner of O’Neill Consulting Group, a global executive search firm, and Acertitude, the firm’s parent company, Kevin O’Neill strives to...

Rosenbaum receives NASAA award

In Their Own Words 10/14/2016

RANDALL ROSENBAUM, executive director of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, was recently named the recipient of the National Assembly of State...

5Q: Sarah Schumann

In Their Own Words 10/14/2016

1 What inspired you to write "Rhode Island's Shellfish Heritage: An Ecological History?" The idea came from the University of Rhode Island's Coastal Resources Center,...

STEVE HEATH is the executive director of FabNewport. / COURTESY TEDXNEWPORT

Five Questions With: Steve Heath

In Their Own Words 10/12/2016

Steve Heath has been the executive director of FabNewport since July 2015; With a tagline of “dream, design, make,” FabNewport holds a variety...

JEFF MORTIMER is director of investment strategy at BNY Mellon. / COURTESY BNY MELLON

Five Questions With: Jeff Mortimer

In Their Own Words 10/11/2016

Jeff Mortimer is director of investment strategy at BNY Mellon Wealth Management. Mortimer, for more than two decades, has designed a data-driven model to...

DEBRA ERICKSON-OWENS is a co-principal investigator on an infant brain development study at Women & Infants Hospital. / COURTESY WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL

Five Questions With: Debra Erickson-Owens

In Their Own Words 10/10/2016

Debra Erickson-Owens, a certified nurse-midwife at Women & Infants Hospital, a Care New England facility, is co-principal investigator of the Infant Brain Study, in...

MERRY CASWELL is the administrative director of the First Star University of Rhode Island Academy. / COURTESY FIRST STAR UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND ACADEMY

Five Questions With: Merry Caswell

In Their Own Words 10/07/2016

Merry Caswell is the administrative director of the First Star University of Rhode Island Academy and former principal of Slater Middle School in Pawtucket...

Buchanan honored for teaching

In Their Own Words 10/07/2016

Sheryl Buchanan, adult learning facilitator and evening coordinator at Genesis Center, was recently named the 2016 Outstanding Adult Educator of the Year by the...