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The Community Foundation of Utah has recognized 50 individuals who it says are making a measurable — but often unsung — difference in the state.
Members of the community nominate members of the "Enlightened 50," a news release said.
To qualify for nomination, an individual must be an innovator pioneering original and sustainable approaches to the critical issues facing our state and its people, a builder committed to community engagement and the common good, or a visionary most likely to make a profound mark on Utah's quality of life, according to the release.
The program is in its fifth year, the foundation said. It will induct this year's Enlightened 50 members on June 18.
Those earning recognition are the following:
Adam Sklute • Ballet West artistic director
Alan Matheson • Gov. Gary Herbert's environmental adviser
Alison Einerson • Downtown Alliance Winter Market manager
Andree Walker Bravo • The Utah Society for Environmental Education director
Anne Osborn • University of Utah neuroradiologist
Canyon Viau and Deja Viau • high school students and Freshman Inventors founders
Casey Jarman • Jarman founder
Charles Sorenson • Intermountain Healthcare president and CEO
Chris Bray • Utah Nonprofits Association CEO
Chris Burbank • Salt Lake City police chief
Chris Conard • Playworks director
Chris Peterson • Sorenson Unity Center director
Colin Fryer • Red Cliffs Lodge owner
Davey Davis • Bicycle Collective
Delite Primus • Youth Garden Project director
Doug Hansen • partner, Tanner and Co.
Doug Wortham • Rowland Hall teacher
Erin Mendenhall • Breathe Utah policy director
Holly Yocom • Utah Film Center director
Jackie Biskupski • community leader
James Alfandre • Kentlands Initiative director
Jamie Kent • Wasatch Backcountry Alliance board chairman
Jennifer Seelig • state representative
Jennifer Speers • community advocate
Jim Dabakis • state senator
Jim Magleby • attorney, Magleby & Greenwood
John Pace • attorney
Judith Kapuscinski • Kayenta Arts Foundation chairwoman
Karen Crompton • Voices for Utah Children president and CEO
Kathy Van Dame • Wasatch Clean Air Coalition policy coordinator
Kent Hayes • Kayenta Arts Foundation, co-artistic director
Linda C. Smith • Repertory Dance Theatre founder
Luz Robles • state senator
Lynn de Freitas • Friends of the Great Salt Lake director
Mara Rabin • Health & Human Rights director
Maria Garciaz • NeighborWorks Salt Lake director
Martha Wunderli • AAA Fair Credit Foundation interim director
Matt Pacenza • HEAL Utah policy director
Melanie Taylor • Fourth Street Clinic chief operating officer
Peggy Tomsic • attorney, Magleby & Greenwood
Scott Leckman • RESULTS board chairman
Shawn Peterson • The Green Urban Lunch Box director
Spencer P. Eccles • director of Governor's Office of Economic Development
Stephanie Pappas • Roofers Supply owner
Susan Vogel • Artes de Mexico en Utah co-founder
Tony Milner • Family Promise director
Travis Hysell • Legacy Initiative president
Trisha Worthington • Park City Foundation former executive director
Valerie Larabee • community leader
Zeke Dumke IV • attorney, Dumke Law