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Kara Roy

Ms. Roy demonstrates leadership in her role as an elected member of the Hudson Board of Select’men’ and as a committed community volunteer. She served as the Vice Chair of

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Raude Raychel

Raude leads an organization that promotes community connections with those in the Indonesian diaspora. Immediately before the pandemic she and her organization were spearheading an effort to bring the country’s

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Janet Polaneczky

Janet is a Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter (NSKS) Board Member and also a volunteer in our Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry. With the onset of COVID, since March of

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Courtney Perron

Courtney is the Director of the SNHU Center for New Americans which serves immigrant and refugee youth and families. Since the pandemic reached Manchester, Courtney and her staff have been

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Nancy and Mackenzie Murphy

During the beginning days and weeks of the pandemic, Nancy and Mackenzie organized ‘Snacks for Our Heroes,’ collecting and distributing bottled water and snacks to frontline health workers at area

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Sumathi Madhure

Sumati is a very caring Physical therapist a single mom who not only worked as frontline worker throughout PANDEMIC going into people’s home providing home care as PT. Both her

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Ali Nesman and Sallie Macintosh

Sallie started a music program for the residents of Edgewood Centre in Portsmouth, NH. She called it ‘Music is Magic’ because it brought joy to people who could no longer

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Grace Kindeke

Grace is an incredible organizer and young leader in our state pushing for a more equitable and just society for all community members!

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Lisa Keslar and JoAnn Burchuck

Lisa is one of the most genuinely kind individuals anyone would be lucky enough to know. Specifically during COVID, Lisa and JoAnn created ‘Cheers for Charity’, an online, video-based platform

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Dr Jennifer Gillis

On behalf of Aimee Kereage of Granite United Way, Steve Thiel of Southern NH University, and Jessica Riendeau of the Granite YMCA, I am honored to recognize Dr. Jennifer Gillis

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