April 27, 2024

Movers & Influencers

Personal promotions, transfers, board appointments, civic accomplishments and philanthropic activities for the week of April 24, 2024.

Nancy Hogshead-Makar is a champion for women's sports

For Nancy Hogshead-Makar, sports has been an avenue for achievement and a source of healing. Florida schools' noncompliance with Title IX robs other women of those opportunities, she says.

Florida Icon: Yann Weymouth

Architect Yann Weymouth shares his secrets to successful architecture.

Remembering 'Florida Icon' Burt Reynolds

Reynolds died last week. Read his "Icon" interview here.

People & Profiles

Florida Icon: Thomas Wilkins
4/11/2024
My mother was a single parent, but a very grown-up woman, and there were certain things she demanded of me: good behavior, clean clothes to wear to school, obey my teachers and be a good citizen in the neighborhood. She created disciplines and an inner personal structure that were an important part of my beginning.
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4/10/2024
In the eight years since Raechel Canipe graduated from college, she's held eight jobs at four companies. A baby boomer might question that job-hopping — but for Canipe, like many Millennials, switching positions has opened doors to learning, career opportunities and giving back.
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Nursing: The Faculty Famine
4/1/2024
In 2005, I wrote a story called “Critical Condition” — my first for FLORIDA TREND — about Florida's nurse faculty shortage. Back then, Florida had about 18 million residents and was grappling with 3,000 RN vacancies. The state's nursing schools, meanwhile, were scrambling to fill instructor slots and turning away hundreds of applicants.
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Splitting the Seams
4/1/2024
Our April issue is one of the largest monthly issues in Florida Trend history — so large that staples alone would not hold it together. Due to its sheer size, we had to work with our printer to change the bindery process, having them “perfect bind” the magazine, as opposed to our usual method of “saddle stitching” (stapling) it together. A big thank you goes out to Jill South, our production director, who worked tirelessly to make sure this extra-large issue of Florida Trend came together seamlessly.
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Good Vibrations
3/11/2024
Blake Richardson created a vibrating wristband that gently rouses firefighters when they get an emergency call. The device is designed to reduce the stress of traditional fire alarm systems, which can take a toll on first responders' health.
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Florida Icon: Jacqueline Quinn
3/8/2024
Environmental engineer at Kennedy Space Center who holds 12 U.S. patents, many involving soil contamination technology; inductee in the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Titusville; age 56
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Publisher & Editor

Florida's Future is Strong
6/30/2022
As publisher of Florida Trend, I travel the state from its most northern regions to its southern tip and all the places in between. As many Floridians know, many of the state's most precious treasures can be found in the lands tucked between the coasts...
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Florida Ever After
6/1/2022
When you move to a state with a fairy tale castle at its center, a certain amount of magical thinking comes with the territory. Fresh out of journalism school in Arizona, I came to Florida because I wanted to be a storyteller, and no place had — and still has — better stories to be told...
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