
Getting to Know: Makers Mart
The production team behind a long-running holiday fair hits its stride with city funding and community support
The team behind Makers Mart, Sacramento’s annual holiday bazaar, has dealt with a litany of challenging logistics over the last decade. But the show always goes on in high style.

Getting to Know: Lori Richardson
A film industry veteran branches into the compliance training genre — using Sacramento talent
The compliance content genre has a reputation for being outdated, but the video series Lori Richardson produces for the e-learning company Emtrain look like they could be part of a Netflix drama.

Getting to Know: Mayra Vega
Woodland's mayor serves with an inclusive perspective and inclination for tech
As a full time director of communications in the health care field, Woodland Mayor Mayra Vega cares about including the underrepresented and boosting the city’s tech jobs.

Getting to Know: Cole Cuchna
Podcast host makes a career out of analyzing the biggest albums in hip-hop
With “Dissect,” Cole Cuchna goes deep into his favorite
music albums, cultivating curiosity in others. Now nine
seasons in, he’s found success with a Spotify partnership
and a talk at TEDxBerkeley.

Getting to Know: Brandon Darnell
A content director tells the stories of Sacramento
The former journalist shapes the brand for Visit
Sacramento’s web content, audio-visual output, podcast, Visitors
Guide and more.

Getting to Know: Dr. Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
A celebrated Asian American studies professor leaves the ivory tower for entrepreneurship
Encountering barriers in academia has prompted Dr. Robyn Magalit
Rodriguez to launch into entrepreneurship. She is leaving her
post as a full professor at UC Davis to create her own school,
farm and learning center.

Getting to Know: Alycia Anderson
A Roseville-based disability advocate encourages corporate America to rethink accessibility
Alycia Anderson pivoted from a successful career as a sales
executive to start her own company
championing diversity, equity and inclusion in the
workplace.

Getting to Know: Anna Fontus
The Metro EDGE Young Professional of the Year is passionate about education and workforce opportunity
As senior program director of Capitol Impact, Anna Fontus
crafts policies that address inequality in California’s
complex social systems.

Getting to Know: Brandon Brown
The Grin CEO believes consumers have fundamentally shifted focus from companies to people
Brandon Brown is CEO and co-founder of the fast-growing
Sacramento-based company Grin. His thought leadership on
influencer marketing is based on authenticity.

Getting to Know: Sarah Miller
A New Yorker satire writer and journalist calls Nevada City home
Freelance essayist Sarah Miller lends her idiosyncratic
style to The New Yorker website and many other
publications. The Nevada City-based writer was
commissioned by Substack to start her own
newsletter earlier this year.