Harris Nussbaum
INTRIGUING EDUCATOR/MENTOR After a more than a five- decade career in education and an equally long commitment to community service, Harris Nussbaum has earned nearly every local, state, and national award possible. The octogenarian, married for 47 years to wife...
Dr. Karen Relucio
INTRIGUING HEALTH AND WELLNESS LEADER In addition to running a division with 17 programs spanning communicable disease control and prevention, chronic disease prevention, emergency preparedness, and initiatives to serve families and children, Dr. Karen Relucio became...
Thomas Buck
INTRIGUING WINE COUNTRY TOUR OPERATOR With a team of wine-savvy chauffeur tour guides, Beau Wine Tours is consistently rated as one of the premier luxury tour operators in the region. It helps that proprietor Thomas Buck has been an avid collector of California ...
Alexandria Brown
INTRIGUING LOCAL HISTORIAN Alexandria Brown has always loved history, not necessarily and wars and kingdoms, but rather people and cultures. A year as a research librarian at the Napa County Historical So the Napa local, Masters of Library and Information Science, and...
Lauren Ackerman
INTRIGUING VINTNER Napa Valley vintner and community leader Lauren Ackerman never intended to enter the home restoration game. The creator of award- winning Ackerman Family Vineyards wines and recipient of the 2020 North Bay Women in Business Award became inexplicably...
Nick Cann
INTRIGUING ARTIST A fifth-generation Californian originally from Palo Alto, Nick Cann has been drawing as long as he can remember. Schooled at San Jose State University, the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and the Art Center...
Amanda McCrossin
INTRIGUING WINE AFICIONADO Amanda McCrossin’s favorite quote is from Steve Martin: ‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.’ “It’s simple and obvious, but it somehow works as a great mantra whenever I’m feeling overwhelmed, or in need of a little direction,” said the wine...
Whitney Diver McEvoy
INTRIGUING COMMUNITY LEADER When Whitney Diver McEvoy joined the Yountville Chamber of Commerce in 2016 as president and CEO, her first goal was to rebuild the Chamber into an organization that could truly make a difference in the...
