Author: Rebecca Loredo

Neekta: Young professional bets big on DFW; Neekta Hamidi brings love of biotech and health innovation; Points to global mindset of region and convenience. Neekta Hamidi came to Dallas with a hypothesis: that the region was poised to become a globally recognized hub for biotech and health innovation. After years working across the East Coast […]

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Born in India and educated at Penn State University, Anmolika Singh is a data scientist at Stanley Black & Decker and the vice president of professional development at Society of Women Engineers Dallas. She’s also in the process of starting a local chapter of AI Tinkerers, a global community of engineers, developers, and researchers who […]

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If you’re following the arts and entertainment scene in Dallas, the name Ahava Silkey-Jones may already be familiar to you. She’s a Midwest transplant with her fingerprints on today’s events and installations, while shaping the future of the local arts industry. Jones moved to Dallas with her husband and two children in 2022, from Minneapolis. […]

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Annette Addo-Yobo’s journey to Dallas — and to the Miss America stage — has been anything but ordinary. Born in Ghana, she moved to the U.S. as a toddler, then spent eight years in Canada before her family settled just north of Dallas. Staying close to home was important to Annette. It wasn’t until 2019 […]

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Laurel Hess has fond memories of growing up in Dallas. Little did she know life would bring her to Cajun country and then lead her back with a family of her own, and a successful startup. Hess had left the Lonestar State for college in the early 2000s. She was temporarily driven out of New […]

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