When we launched the Next 20 series, we hoped that asking people to imagine the future would help them create it, and inspire others to dream. For many of the contributors, that’s exactly what happened.
Enid Krieger retired to central Virginia in 1999. She spent many hours on nonprofit boards and committees, drawing on her decades of experience in health care. But it wasn’t until contributing to Next 20 that she considered herself a writer, comfortable enough to share her ideas broadly.
Ckalib Nelson, a data engineer, said the Next 20 series gave him just the push he needed. Telling his story of local data for all propelled him to create a new company that will expand access to public data…