Tamonie Denegall

Title: Auditor
Company: Defense Logistics Agency
Location: Forestville, MD United States

Tamonie Denegall has always been interested in mathematics. She pursued her passion at Payne University, and upon her graduation in 1988, she began working at a CPA firm. Later on, Ms. Denegall joined The US Army Agency, which sent her to Hawaii to earn a master’s degree in business from Chaminade University in 1994. She has also conducted internal auditing for the Department of Defense, and worked for the Inspector General’s office.

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Angela R. Crane, MD

Crane, Angela 1323235Title: 1) Owner
2) Investigative Health Journalist

Company: 1) Engaged Environment, LLC
2) Angela Crane Associates, LLC

Location: Nashua, NH United States

As a new entrepreneur, Angela R. Crane’s main responsibility is to bring awareness to the issues that face the nation today. She founded Engaged Environment, LLC, and Angela Crane Associates, LLC, as forums to discuss topics like homelessness, police brutality and health care. Dr. Crane is passionate about helping others, and hopes to create better schools and workplaces by breaking down the barriers of stagnation and the fear of change. Additionally, she would like to change the role of education to include social, emotional, mental and physical health. Making the life-changing decision to follow her passion was the highlight of Dr. Crane’s career.

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Nancy Chinski, BS, MT, ASCP

Chinski, Nancy 2092143Title: Central Specimen Receiving and Processing Coordinator
Company: Erie County Medical Center
Location: Lancaster, NY United States

While following her dreams of becoming a doctor, Nancy Chinski discovered that she really enjoys analyzing specimen. She decided to enter the medical technology field instead, and now has almost two decades of professional experience. After a number of years, a leadership position opened up and Ms. Chinski seized it. She is now the central specimen receiving and processing coordinator at Erie County Medical Center, a hospital that serves Western New York and Southern Ontario. Ms. Chinski loves her job, but she would like to change people’s perceptions of what the lab does. People are always surprised by the role it plays in patient care.

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Lonnie M. Jenkins

Title: Owner, Operator
Company: Lonnie M. Jenkins Adult Care Home
Location: Portland, OR United States

With 54 years of professional experience, Lonnie Jenkins is an expert in adult care. As the owner and operator of Lonnie M. Jenkins Adult Care Home for the past 9 years, she is responsible for assisting the elderly with their daily living, cooking, cleaning and scheduling doctors’ appointments.

Ms. Jenkins became involved in her profession because of her caring nature, and attributes her success to her lifestyle and upbringing. In addition to helping people through her adult care facility, she is also charitable involved in the community. Ms. Jenkins supports the New Hope Baptist Church, the local youth department, and the Prayer Core Committee, and is a member of Alpha Mu Beta.

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Mary Ann Hollingsworth, Ph.D.

Title: Assistant Professor
Company: University of West Alabama
Location: Livingston, AL United States

Sometimes described as an “iron hand in a velvet glove,” Mary Ann Hollingsworth is inspired by her inner drive; she believes strongly in an internal locus of control. Over the course of her professional life, she has enjoyed much success. Dr. Hollingsworth currently teaches students who are preparing to be school and community health counselors at the University of West Alabama. Besides teaching, however, she is also involved with project development, writing, and research. Dr. Hollingsworth’s current research interests have surrounded learning and counseling through a paradigm of wellness and the whole person. Although she loves her current career, she would like to see more hands-on education versus textbook education. Dr. Hollingsworth believes that there is much more to be learned in the field than in a classroom environment. She integrates this into the classes she teaches by including service learning projects in which students use course concepts in volunteer situations outside the classroom.

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