Greenville Business Magazine 2010 September issue : Page 54Greenville’s Class 36. In 2009, AJ played an integral role in the effort to save the Greenville Shriner’s Hospital, and more recently he helped to organize and implement the Ready4Reading community project. He and his wife also enjoy volunteering with Hands on Greenville. 19 ELVIA PACHECO AGE 26 HR SPECIALIST FLUOR CORPORATION Currently working toward her MBA at Strayer University, Elvia is an HR specialist for Fluor’s South Texas Project and is responsible for working with new hires on assignment, conducting welcome orientations and helping managers with the performance appraisal system. A recipient of the Riley Institute’s Diversity Award, Elvia has been a member of the Chamber’s PULSE program for three years – currently acting as the Social Committee chair – and is in her second year as treasurer of the YWCA Greenville’s Junior Board where she has been able “to learn the importance of coming together for a great cause.” In Fluor, she forms part of GAP: Graduates Advancing to Professionalism, and also volunteers with Hands on Greenville, Habitat for Humanity and American Heart Association events. She participated in 2010 Census events in several Hispanic and African American communities, encouraging community members to take part in the Census, and she has served as a tutor at a local elementary school. 20 AMANDA PERKINS AGE 34 PEDIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONER, PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY GREENVILLE HOSPITAL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OUTPATIENT CENTER Working with children who have diabetes, endocrine disorders and obesity, Amanda provides direct patient care,as well as education and lifestyle counseling. She helped implement the Get Real About Diabetes program, providing intensive medical and psychosocial services for patients and their families struggling with the challenges of living with a chronic illness. She also initiated the local chapter of Girls on the Run – an after school program that helps pre-teen girls develop self-respect and healthy lifestyles through running – because she believes it is “important that young girls develop habits of healthy eating and physical activity and learn at an early age the importance of self-esteem and good body image.” She recently participated in a medical and humanitarian mission to Haiti with Christ Church in Greenville where she provided care to the indigent population. Earlier this year, she participated in Rotary International’s Group Study Exchange program to Australia in order to share ideas, practices and experiences with other healthcare practitioners. 21 ALICIA POWERS,PHD AGE 30 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FURMAN UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES DEPARTMENT A professor of health sciences, Alicia also conducts research in the areas of public health and nutrition with particular emphasis on community-based interventions to impact the obesity epidemic. She is the principal investigator for Greenville’s Healthy Kids Healthy Communities initiative SHOELESS JOE ARTIST:DOUG YOUNG “Shoeless” Joe Jackson played baseball in Greenville and later for the Chicago White Sox, where he was banned from the game after the “Black Sox” scandal of the 1919 World Series. A museum dedicated to Jackson sits across from the nearby Greenville Drive stadium. L to R from top: Sean Dogan, Alice Grey Harrison, Amanda Perkins, Danielle Gibbs 54 GREENVILLEBUSINESSMAG.COM | SEPTEMBER 2010 funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which expanded from Activate Upstate, a comprehensive public health initiative for Greenville County that now includes policy, system and environmen-tal change efforts. She is a key member of the Healthy Kids Healthy Greenville initiative of the Piedmont Healthcare Foundation and is facilitator of its Access to Healthy Foods workgroup. She also serves as a Higher Education Representative of the Action Communities for Health Innovation and Environmental Change. She is a member of the Sterling Phoenix League Health & Wellness Task Force Assessment Team; assists with planning, implementation and analysis of policies relating to obesity in the Berea, Sterling and Nicholtown communities; provides oversight for the Sterling Community Health Assessment and serves on the advisory board of Sterling’s TORCH after school program. 22 DUFFIE POWERS AGE 33 ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY GALLIVAN, WHITE & BOYD, P.A. After graduating from USC School of Law in 2005, Duffie began his practice with Gallivan, White & Boyd, P.A. and “immediately sought ways to become involved and make a difference in the Greenville community.” He serves on the firm’s market-Greenvill Greenvill Greenvill Greenvill Greenvill Greenvill Greenvill Greenvill Greenvill Publication List |
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