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2013 Forty Under 40: Hannah Joseph

Hannah Joseph has a fondness for small businesses—the one she owns with her husband, Brent—King David Dogs—and the 150 or so that are her clients at law firm Katz & Korin.

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2013 Forty Under 40: Michele Jackson

Michele Jackson splits her week between her Harden Jackson Law LLC firm, where she handles domestic adoptions and reproductive law cases, and MLJ Adoptions, where she specializes in the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes heartbreaking world of international adoption.

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2013 Forty Under 40: Laura E. Henderson

As founder and executive director of Growing Places Indy, Laura Henderson sees the big picture. People making healthier food choices feel better, and when many people feel better, the result is a healthier community.

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2013 Forty Under 40: Andrew Held

Andrew Held had an impressive law career going—as an Indiana University-Bloomington law student, he clerked for federal Judge Sarah Evans Barker and Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Margret Robb before joining Hackman Hulett & Cracraft LLP and then Bose McKinney & Evans LLP in its Real Estate Group.

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2013 Forty Under 40: Ben Gale

Ben Gale grew up in Anderson, graduated from Anderson University, left town for a few years and came back “committed to being a positive influence in a community that’s really struggled.

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2013 Forty Under 40: Chris T. Gahl

Chris Gahl is passionate about his hometown. As vice president of marketing and communication for Visit Indy, he turns his enthusiasm loose on meeting planners and travel professionals, showing them the best Indianapolis has to offer, which was on display for millions in 2012 during Super Bowl XLVI.

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2013 Forty Under 40: Claudia Fuentes

When Claudia Fuentes was elected Marion County treasurer in November, she became the first Latina elected to countywide office in Indiana. She considers that milestone “huge.”

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2013 Forty Under 40: Scott Fadness

For five years, Scott Fadness has focused on what’s best for Fishers. Three years from now, what’s best for the town of 80,000 will include the end of his job, as the town becomes a city that will have a mayor to handle the work Fadness now does as town manager.

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2013 Forty Under 40: Katie Culp

Katie Culp has amassed enough frequent flier miles to move up to first class frequently. That’s good not only because she’s 5-foot-11 but also because she does a fair amount of traveling.

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2013 Forty Under 40: Elizabeth Childers

Strengthening relationships is key to Elizabeth Childers’ success. A marketing leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the “big four” accounting firms, Childers nurtures the company’s ties to its communities, clients and alumni in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio with frequent travel among four offices in the three states.

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2013 Forty Under 40: Timothy L. Carter

In the three years since Timothy Carter became Butler University’s first director of its Center for Urban Ecology, he’s been busy defining the center’s vision, setting goals and building relationships within the campus as well as the Indianapolis community.

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2013 Forty Under 40: Brad Beaubien

Brad Beaubien came from Sioux City, Iowa, to Ball State University to pursue an education in landscape architecture and urban planning. Give or take 75 miles, he’s still there.

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2013 Forty Under 40: Edward Battista

Edward Battista owns the trendy Bluebeard restaurant in Fountain Square and is in the middle of law school at IUPUI. The last time he slept, he jokes, was two years ago.

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2013 Forty Under 40: Sarah Aubrey

The numbers tell Sarah Aubrey’s story: Since founding her grant-writing company in 2007, she’s secured nearly $60 million for clients in 38 states. In an average year, she writes several hundred grants and boasts a 90-percent success rate.

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2013 Forty Under 40: Kendale Adams

As a North Central High School senior, Kendale Adams went through a 100 Black Men mentoring program that paired him with a police officer. By his senior year at Ball State University, he’d already begun the process of joining the Indianapolis Police Department.

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