John Grigsby and Jim Vegher

businessman; physician; co-founders, Equity Foundation

Portland, OR

Jim Vegher was born in 1939 in San Pedro, California, the second oldest in a family of eight kids. Jim’s devoutly Catholic father was thrilled...
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Suzanne Pharr

Co-founder, Southerners on New Ground

Little Rock, AR

Suzanne Pharr was born in 1939, the youngest of eight kids, and raised on a farm near Lawrenceville, Georgia. From day one, she was in...
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Donna Red Wing

activist, organizer, reconciler

Des Moines, IA

For more than 30 years, Donna Red Wing was a national leader in the fight for human rights, civil rights and LGBTQ equality. The Christian...
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Kathleen Saadat

LGBTQ, AIDS, and racial equity advocate and activist

Portland, OR

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in a family committed to justice and education, Kathleen Saadat graduated from Chicago’s Farragut High School in 1957...
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