This week’s Time Out New York features a list of 40 New Yorkers who have made a “positive impact on the city since TONY’s been around.” While we do like many of the people on their list, we felt compelled to make a list that the Idealist community might find more inspiring.
So here are the New Yorkers we’d love to interview, in no particular order. Please add more below and make our list 40 strong!
Rosario Dawson: Not only is she a fab actress, but she’s done work with loads of community groups, including the Lower East Side Girls Club , PFLAG , and Voto Latino .
Majora Carter: She founded Sustainable South Bronx , which combines poverty alleviation with environmental improvement—in the neighborhood and nationwide.
Danny Goldfield: His project, NYChildren , aims to photograph one child from every country in the world. All of them must live in New York City.
Chang-Rae Lee: The author of Native Speaker, a brilliant novel a...
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