Paula Faris

Paula Faris

Paula Faris was innately curious as a child, asking so many questions her family nicknamed her “Paula 20 Questions.” The daughter of a Lebanese immigrant and an Irish Catholic mother, Paula was gifted with darker skin, a slight frame, and what she calls “unusually...
John Wallace

John Wallace

About John Wallace John Wallace is a native of Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood. So, when John— who’d been raised in Homewood—was the first in his family to graduate from college, when he received his doctorate from the University of Michigan when he accepted a job...
Dr. David Armstrong

Dr. David Armstrong

About Dr. David Armstrong Dr. David Armstrong, professor of surgery at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, specializes in amputation prevention. As the founder of the Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA), he’s a bit of...
Eric “Astro” Teller

Eric “Astro” Teller

About Astro Teller Eric “Astro” Teller is that rare sort of person, the kind who inspires both belief and awe. His grandfather on his mother’s side was Gerard Debreu, a Nobel Prize–winning economist. His paternal grandfather was theoretical physicist Edward Teller,...
Justin Moore

Justin Moore

About Justin Moore The chief executive officer of the American Physical Therapy Association [APTA] and an outside-the-box thinker, Justin Moore is dedicated to advancing integrated, holistic human health. What is one of the primary threats to human health in modern...
Dr. Joshua Margolis

Dr. Joshua Margolis

About Dr. Joshua Margolis Dr. Margolis is an accomplished professor at Harvard Business School in the field of leadership and ethics. According to his bio, he “is an expert in complex situations involving tradeoffs. In particular, he focuses on the distinctive ethical...