Meet Miki Esposito. When we interviewed her for the Leadership Lincoln Podcast, she was Director of Lincoln’s Department of Transportation and Utilities. Toward the end of 2019, Esposito accepted the position as Director of Marketing for Olsson, a Lincoln based, nationally recognized, employee-owned design firm.

Ann Burkholder had a big hand in bringing Lincoln's Haymarket back to life and in starting our monthly art walk, First Friday. You'll enjoy this conversation with had with Ann.

Chris Beutler served as Mayor of Lincoln for 12 years.

Suzanne Sughroue served as the chairman of the Leadership Lincoln Board in 2018 and 2019. She is also the Director of Development for the Madonna Foundation in Lincoln. https://www.madonna.org/foundation

Kim Russell came to Lincoln with her husband, Dr. Dirk Brom, to head the Bryan Health organization. They’ve fallen in love with the community for a wide variety of reasons.

Bill Stephan has his dream job. He’s the Executive Director of Lincoln’s Lied Center for the Performing Arts. And, the people of Lincoln, indeed all of Nebraska and even people in Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, South Dakota enjoy the work that he does for one of the nation’s premier performance centers.

Nordell manages the Extreme Light Laboratory at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and in that capacity he’s doing a wide variety of research ranging from creating micro-second videos of molecules to study how they change, using laser generated x-rays to study the nuclear levels in materials to help develop new batteries and to explore how x-rays can be used in communications.

Leirion Gaylor Baird was elected Mayor of Lincoln in May, 2019. This interview was conducted in the Fall of 2018, while she was still serving on the City Council and before she declared her candidacy for Mayor. She was elected to serve on the City Council in 2013 after serving for several years on the Lincoln/Lancaster County Planning Commission.

She’s the mother of three, wife of a teacher, a Marathon runner, from of a family that’s been around for more than five generations, a member of Lincoln’s downtown Rotary and someone who helps the Bryan Health operation do good things. In this episode of the Leadership Lincoln podcast Lincoln, you’ll meet and get to know Valerie Hunt.

Sue Wood grew up in Lincoln, graduated from high school here, attended the University of Nebraska then she headed out into the world . . . literally. She’s worked for the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the United Nations.