iv The Leading Healthy Change In Our Communities book is a capstone project of Healthy NewsWorks. Through interviews, student journalists learn how Philadelphia-area leaders are working to make our communities healthier and safer. And they share their insights with other children who read this book. We thank the health leaders featured in the following pages for donating their time to share their insights with our student journalists. We deeply appreciate the students whose work is presented here as well as the teachers and school faculty and administrators who helped make the book possible. We are also most grateful to our editors, Mary Lowe Kennedy, Susan FitzGerald, Denise Foley, John Fried, Andrea Kenyon, and Dana Reddington; designer, Craig Reese; and printer, The Homer Group, Inc. On the cover Illustration by Dominic Rivera, eighth grade, St. Veronica Healthy Hero © 2019 Healthy NewsWorks. All rights reserved. www.HealthyNewsWorks.org Creating this book