EMILY STARK Age: 30 Occupation: School counselor, Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children Personal: Experienced hearing loss as a young child and now hears with the help of a cochlear implant and a hearing aid. Married to Brian Stark, who works in medical-equipment...
NEETA SINGH Age: 35 Occupation: Associate professor of nutrition, University of the Incarnate Word. Background: Diplomat's daughter who was educated in several countries on three continents, earning three advanced degrees. Personal: Single but open to cross-cultural...
CYNTHIA RODRIGUEZ Age: 32 Occupation: Teaching assistant, Culinary Institute of America (CIA), San Antonio. Personal: Shares her life with daughter, Carissa, age 12, and their Chihuahua, Carmelo. Why she's a Role Model: After more than a decade of ups and downs in the...
Bringing fresh perspective as the second generation of her family at upscale fashion store COURTNEY GLOVER PERCY Age: 26. Occupation: Marketing director, Julian Gold. Personal: Married since June 2008 to Charles Brandon Percy. Why she’s a Role Model: Brings a fresh...
Enthralled audience members often resort to other-worldly references to describe a concert by Voci di Sorelle, a 12- member all-female ensemble of vocalists who specialize in a cappella singing. Phrases like "I felt like angels were singing," or "I felt like I wasn't...
Once San Antonio's founding nearly 400 years ago, the city has amassed a substantial physical record — artifacts and documents — without stopping in its eventful history to figure out what to do with all this stuff. Not long ago, for instance, a ceremonial sword...
For her first real post-college job, Kirsten Crow hasn't chosen one of those hot new fields that didn't exist in the last millennium. Instead, she's pursuing a profession associated with Ben Franklin or, at best, the Watergate scandal of 30-plus years ago. Crow, 24,...
There's one sister question Demitra and Samanthe Peterson don't have to ponder: Which one's the pretty one and which one's the smart one? They're identical twins, age 27, both slender and naturally elegant, with classical features that seem to derive from their...
There are no mean girls in this gymnastics class, no queen bees or wannabes. Most are around 9 years old, wearing blue velveteen leotards. As the six girls work through stretching exercises to prepare them for floor routines, they encourage each other. "Good job!"...
There are around two dozen ponytails bobbing during a varsity girls' volleyball practice at TMI: The Episcopal School of Texas. One of them belongs to the team's coach, Courtney Duke, who's right in the middle of the action through most of the practice. Duke serves...
On most nights, Belinda Menchaca can be found in the dance studio at the Institute of Mexico, where she conducts rehearsals of the Guadalupe Dance Company. It's a handsome space, with the right kind of floor, mirrored walls and a lot of room for dancers to practice...
Several of Leslie Popiel's co-workers could be extremely intimidating: They're much more powerful than she, favor a severe black-and-white look and crunch on ice balls for snacks. Ice balls? At the top of the food chain? "Whales like ice balls the way people like ice...
During this election cycle, we've heard about a lot of different subspecies of voters: security moms (most concerned about terrorism), NASCAR dads (this year's counterpart to soccer moms) and iPod voters (youthful and techno-savvy). Political scientist Amy Jasperson...
You can hear Madeline Anz Slay coming down the hall. Office carpet can't muffle the sound of a pair of determined heels in fast motion. "My husband says, ‘Madeline doesn't walk, she marches,'" the 34-year-old architect says, as she swoops into a seat at the head of...
Stephanie Bocanegra looks comfortable in the sunny, award-studded office of City Councilman Enrique Barrera, who has loaned the space to his aide for an afternoon appointment. In the female politician's uniform of sleek black pantsuit brightened with a slice of...
It not that Missy Bruce, D.V.M., is one of those fanatics who think their pets are people. She just wants the humans in her life to understand that animals occupy a special place in her heart and sometimes elsewhere. When she and her husband Carlos went on their first...
Just as the knee bone's connected to the thighbone, Bobbie De Los Santos has a personal tie to the exhibit she helped bring to the Witte Museum. That's "Bones: An Exhibit Inside You," created by the Children's Museum of Indianapolis and presented locally by Advanced...
Not long ago, grants manager Mara Posada was sitting in her office at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center when a realization struck her: She and her employer are practically birthday twins." The Guadalupe and I grew up together," Posada says with a smile. She's 25...
