We’ve highlighted responses from some of the brightest and most talented artists, creatives, and entrepreneurs in the community below.

Sifu Courtney Colo” Taskowitz”

There is one person that immediately comes to mind when I think of a hero, more specifically MY hero. That person was my Grandma, Joan Elizabeth Taskowitz (Joanie). She was the most heroic, brave, caring, understanding, supportive, and unconditionally loving person, Growing up, my brother and I were “raised by a village;” parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, babysitters, etc.. Read more>>

Victoria Oshodin

My hero is undoubtedly my mother. Raised in a strict Nigerian Catholic household in SW London, my mother worked tirelessly to ensure that her children had everything they needed to be an asset to the world. She installed the principles that have guided us through life, showing us how to act, make decisions, and get the most out of life. Read more>>

Jeffrey Carabelos

I grew up listening to the themes from Star Wars, E.T., Indiana Jones, Jaws, Jurassic Park and more. My father would play games with me and my brother, whistling and humming motifs from an action sequence in one of our favorite movies, and we would have to guess the movie and who wrote it. Of course the answer was always a film scored by the maestro himself, John Williams. Read more>>

Ray Lynch

My hero is my mother Gloria Lynch. She was beautiful, smart, and tough. She raised me and my three brothers by herself in East Harlem, one of the toughest places to grow up in New York City. My mom went to college and got her Bachelors & Masters Degree and went on to become a Social Worker for over thirty years. When we were very young she had her own clothing store and later on she ran her own cleaning company that would clean offices after work hours. Read more>>