30 Leaders Of The Future

Ebony, Nov, 1999 by Lynn Norment

NAOMI R. PARADISE, 27, trade promotions fired administrator, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Atlanta, Ga.; recipient, Pursuit of Excellence Award for Customer Focus Team ('99); participant, United Way VIP (Volunteer Involvement Program) '99; volunteer; Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Chairman's Campaign; participant, GP Buddy Georgia Pacific tutoring partnership with M. Agnes Elementary School; volunteer with Atlanta Ballet Fund-raising Campaign and Zoo Atlanta Fund-raising Campaign; youth minister; Our Lady Of Lourdes Catholic Church.

SHAWN EMERSON SIMMONS, 28, environmental engineer, GB Biosciences, Houston; doctoral student, Texas Southern University; recipient, Mickey Leland Environmental Intern Award ('99), U.S. Environmental Toxicology Fellowship Award ('97-'99), YMCA Young African-American Achiever Award ('99) and DuPont Graduate Award from National Society of Black Chemists & Chemical Engineers ('99); board member, The Child Care Council of Greater' Houston arid Lighthouse Christian Academy.

BERVE M. POWER, 24, Chicago, attorney with Power & Dixon law firm and has been associated with several cases that drew media attention; criminal justice instructor, Kennedy King College; secretary, Chicago-area Morehouse Alumni Club; chairman, Chicago Inter-Alumni Council UNCF Pageant; founder, After-School Tutorial Program, Dean Rusk Elementary School.

CAPT. WILLIAM E. YOUNG JR., 30, Reston, Va., information operation strategist and chief of electronic warfare support for the U.S. Air Force's CHECKMATE Strategy Division; serves on National Executive Board of the Air Force Cadet Mentor Action Program, one of the premier mentoring organizations of the federal government; recently completed tour as an Air Force intern at the Pentagon, where he worked in the office of the Secretary of Defense and for the deputy chief of staff of the Air Force for operations and training.

JONATHAN BAILEY HOLLAND, 25, composer, music doctoral student and Dudley House Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; awarded numerous commissions, including Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra Volunteer Association, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra-Kennedy Center and Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies; 1999 winner Indianapolis Symphony-Marian K. Glick Young Composer's Showcase; winner, 1999 Harvard University Francis Boott Prize and 1999 Austin Petty State University Young Composers Competition; conductor, Dudley House Orchestra, Harvard; assistant conductor, Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra.

ELGIE R. SIMS JR., 29, director of appropriations, Illinois Senate Democratic Leader; vice chair, Fiscal Oversight and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures; mentor, Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Sangamon County; coordinator, Illinois General Assembly Christmas Exchange Program; member, Planning Committee, Springfield School Board's salute to African-American Teachers; 32nd-degree Mason and member of Central Lodge No. 3, Menelik Consistory #49-Prince Hall affiliate.