Life in the Spotlight

Dianne Kowalski, past president of the Munster Junior Woman’s Club, has been giving back to her community for years. She got her start with the club when her children were little and has been with the organization for a total 27 years as of today....

Being an educator means dedicating your life to helping others grow and nurture, forever expanding their knowledge, and yours. For Kate Villafranca, teacher and stay-at-home mother of four, this was no different. After teaching both fifth and sixth...

Tom Banas has dedicated his entire life to helping not only the people in his community of Highland, Indiana, but also all of the people in America. Banas served as a medical assistant in the United States Army for two years. During his time in the...

When Tyler Lennox-Bush is not behind a camera, he usually can be found in front of a classroom teaching about digital media. For the past three and a half years, he was Director of Studio Arts at Calumet College of St. Joseph. More recently, he made...

From being the spokesperson for her siblings to convince their mother to get McDonald’s for dinner to becoming the CEO of her own PR firm, C Whitt, Chelsea Whittington has always had a way with words. Persuasive ability and great communication...

Not many people are able to merge two dissimilar interests into one career path – but for Jona Rivera, stumbling upon Indiana University’s (IU) media law and management track was everything she had been looking for. “I knew that the Media...

Gregory Lollis is a salesman at the Ford in Merrillville. But this is not where he first started his career journey. After 20 years in the Steel industry, Lollis decided that it was time to try something new. This new thing turned out to be car...

Not everyone is passionate about what they choose to pursue in life. Sometimes people choose their career simply because they feel like they have to or because they don’t know what other path to choose. Nitya Shah, however, has been passionate...

There are so many amazing people in the Region who use their skills to make their community an even better place. What’s equally amazing, though, are the young people the Region creates—young people who are eager to go out into the world and...

Passions lead people in all kinds of different directions, even ones you never see coming. Famous child actors will go to college to pursue medicine. People fall in love and move halfway around the world. For Robert Klemz, passion for his daughter...