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Meet the Baltimore area’s most intriguing movers and shakers of 2. Look for the 2. 5 Women to Watch in a special magazine supplement in some editions of The Sun on Sunday, Oct.

Saida Agostini. 35, chief operating officer of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture. Saida Agostini isn’t very handy with a needle and thread. But she excels at stitching together activists, rape survivors and members of the LBGTQ community to work for a common cause. For the past year, Agostini’s been chief operating officer of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, the collective that created The Monument Quilt, in which stories of 2,2. Agostini, who has overcome violence in her own life, contributed a square which spells out “love” and was made with an artist friend’s help.

She puts it bluntly: “I’ve been a witness too many times to people being told their experiences don’t matter. You cannot do work for people without including them in the process.”—Mary Carole Mc. Cauley. Keisha Allen. Westport Neighborhood Association. Keisha Allen stepped into community activism when she was left in charge of a neighborhood association bake sale. A decade later, she’s the group’s president, keeping Westport’s interests in the forefront as the nearby $5. Port Covington redevelopment is under way.

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She helped negotiate a $3. Her day job in medical billing gives her more time off than her community activism: “When I come home, I put on my cape. I want people to treat our neighborhood with the same respect they treat some of the more affluent neighborhoods.”—Yvonne Wenger. Meet the area's most intriguing female movers and shakers. Read more about The Baltimore Sun's 2.

Women to Watch: http: //bsun. Cg. MDEricka Alston- Buck. CEO of Maryland Community Health Initiatives and executive director of Kids Safe Zone. One foggy August morning, Ericka Alston- Buck woke up at 3: 3. Six Flags to ride the “Wild One” roller coaster 1. The rides were broadcast live on local television for a charity event during the morning rush hour, enabling her not only to extend the visibility of the West Baltimore youth center she oversees, the Kids Safe Zone, but to give 1.

It is that kind of atypical approach that has led Alston- Buck, the center’s founder and executive director, to keep the youth center open in an impoverished and dangerous area in which more than 1. She founded the Kids Safe Zone shortly after taking a job as a publicist for the Penn North addiction recovery center — the same center the West Baltimore native once attended in her 2. After the riots following 2. Freddie Gray’s death, Alston- Buck says she heard residents repeatedly complain: “Our kids have no place to go after school — no sports, no jobs, no recreation.”She appealed to her employer, and Penn North gave her the keys to a vacant laundromat. Drawing upon a background in communications, she raised donations on social media to open the doors within five weeks.

On a typical weekday afternoon, Alston- Buck’s team sees as many as 1. She’s since become the CEO for the umbrella organization Maryland Community Health Initiatives Inc., which includes the Kids Safe Zone, Penn North recovery center and several other efforts, including residential housing for 1. Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis describes Alston- Buck as “a beacon of hope,” and state Del. Bilal Ali says, “If I could clone Ericka and sprinkle her around the city, this would be a much better city.”—Catherine Rentz Karen Barbour. Barbour Group. For years, Karen Barbour has advocated for and supported entrepreneurs through her bonding company, the Barbour Group. Then last year, she launched the Alliance for Hispanic Commercial Contractors, a network designed to help its 2. The alliance addresses a dramatic achievement gap for Hispanic- owned commercial construction firms, she says.

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She took her advocacy one step further this June with the creation of the National Small Business Party, a 1. Barbour lobbies for legislation designed to eliminate regulatory barriers for entrepreneurs, she says, because of “the importance of economic fairness.”—Michel Elben. Bradie Barr. 54, president, Transamerica Stable Value Solutions Inc., vice president and managing director, Institutional Markets at Transamerica. Bradie Barr is something of a guardian of retirement. Last year she began overseeing a business that “wraps” insurance around 4.

The money you put in is protected, and the money you earn is protected,” she says. This has real tangible value to people, and I like that.” She says it’s all “real money,” a lesson that stuck from her early days as a bank teller cashing people’s paychecks. And if protecting money feels good, next up for Barr is giving it away through Transamerica’s foundation. It’s pretty cool,” she says.—Meredith Cohn Alison G. Brown. 61, senior vice president and chief strategy officer, University of Maryland Medical System.

Alison Brown believes in going after what she wants. If you see an opportunity that you think you might like to have, you really have to raise your voice, raise your hand and put yourself out there to be considered,” she says. That philosophy has helped her rise through the ranks at the University of Maryland Medical System.

As senior vice president and chief strategy officer, she makes sure key parts of affiliations with other hospitals run smoothly. Her next big project is the affiliation with University of Maryland Capital Region Health in Prince George’s County, where she will be charged with rebuilding the reputation of the troubled health system, among other tasks.—Andrea K. Mc. Daniels 5. 2, director, Baltimore’s Office of Civil Rights and Wage Enforcement. The daughter of respected civil rights activist Walter P. Carter, Jill Carter feels she has the opportunity to carry out her father’s work. In her new role leading Baltimore’s civil rights efforts, the former state delegate has restaffed and reinvigorated three community boards that oversee police misconduct, wages and discrimination.

Baltimore, when it comes to issues of racial and economic justice, has not advanced very far since the time of my father,” the Ashburton resident says. Her impact has already been felt. The police department’s internal affairs chief says Carter has convinced the agency several times to sustain complaints from citizens that would have otherwise been dismissed.—Luke Broadwater.

Female leaders answer the question: "What do you consider the greatest challenge facing women in the workplace today?" (Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun video). Female leaders answer the question: "What do you consider the greatest challenge facing women in the workplace today?" (Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun video)SEE MORE VIDEOSHeidi Daniel. Enoch Pratt Free Library. New to Baltimore, Heidi Daniel has a long to- do list: Try Old Bay caramel ice cream at the Charmery, enroll her children in a city public school and run the $4. Enoch Pratt Free Library system.

Daniel, a former Ohio librarian, is spending her first weeks on the job touring each of the 2. The Pratt is here to serve the community, Daniel says, adding, “People tend to think of one thing about the library: You’re coming in looking at a book and going home. We’re so much more.”—Yvonne Wenger Margaret B. Davis. 58, president and CEO of Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts. How do you follow someone who’s been on the job for 2.

Margaret B. Davis is about to find out. On Nov. 1, she takes over the leading role at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, the center of the Annapolis arts scene, from Linnell Bowen, a woman described as “a force of nature.” But Davis has her own impressive credentials. Watch World Without End Dailymotion.

She previously was the head of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, where she doubled revenue after taking over in 2. That work was important to Davis, who recently moved to Annapolis, but the mission of the arts center is, too.

This is what I am called to do,” she says, “to help bring in great art and connect it to the citizens and the public.”—Rick Hutzell. Dr. Elizabeth Dovec.