SJM_SouthernExposure_0423_SouthernExposure_11_08 4 / 25 / 23 2 : 09 PM Page 3 Do you know a local person ? NAMES TO KNOW who is doing great things ? Let us know by emailing Madeleine @ SouthJersey.com . Local people achieving big things in South Jersey and beyond Zac Gallen Michaela Bogon Melissa Klapper Yidi Ding Gina Emege Colandra Coleman Effective April 10 , Coleman was Collingswood High School Klapper , who has been an The 11 - year - old began playing Emege was recently recognized Camden County native Gallen named executive director for ( CHS ) senior Bogon was re - American and women’s history the piano at just 5 years old . with the New Jersey State was the starting pitcher for Joseph’s House of Camden , a cently accepted into her dream professor at Rowan University His talent and dedication to School Nurses Association’s the Arizona Diamondbacks ’ Camden County homeless shel - school while undergoing treat - for 22 years , completed a three - the art form have earned the School Nurse Excellence opening day game earlier this ter committed to providing re - ment for an osteosarcoma tu - game winning streak on Jeop - Woodbury preteen several in - Award . She began her career at month . His love for baseball sources , social and housing ser - mor in her upper arm , but ardy last month . The longtime vitations to perform at Lenape High School 20 years began when he was just a vices for those in need . Coleman that’s not the only silver lining educator came to the show Carnegie Hall and at the age ago and , since then , has contin - boy playing for Somerdale’s brings 12 years ’ nonprofit expe - for the future aerospace engi - with a strategy : Beyond trying of 7 , Ding was accepted to the ued to care for Lenape’s stu - Little League team , before go - rience with her , with a predomi - neering student . Bogon was to get as many answers right as Juilliard School Pre - College di - dents . The School Nurse Excel - ing on to play three seasons nant focus on helping those ex - undergoing chemotherapy in she could , she aimed to win as vision . He recently performed lence Award is presented to at the University of North Car - periencing homelessness . In her December when she found out much money as possible early in the Philadelphia Internation - school nurses who demonstrate olina and making his major efforts to keep following an ear - she’d been accepted to Vir - on , often taking the harder , al Music Festival , where he dedication to the advancement league debut in June 2019 . ly - in - life call to work in social ginia Tech ; since then , and higher - priced questions first . won first prize in his division of school nursing ; exemplifying Last season , he was named services , Coleman’s new role in - throughout her senior year , the Her working knowledge of and was named runner - up for the dedication that earned her the Diamondbacks ’ Most cludes ensuring the staff of al - CHS community has rallied American and women’s history , the grand prize , granting him a the award , Emege has collected Valuable Pitcher by the Base - most 30 continually meet their around Bogon , even coordinat - combined with her recreational partial scholarship for an in - data to illustrate the need for ball Writers Association of core goal of guest services ing a two - part fundraiser and knowledge of music and two tensive classical music train - additional school nursing re - America and set the team’s while bolstering development dodgeball tournament to sup - weeks of cramming , allowed ing program over the summer . sources as well as made strides new single - season record for efforts and maintaining active port her as she prepared for her to secure a total of $ 60,100 to ensure equitable access to the lowest opponent average . donor involvement . surgery early last month . in winnings . school health services . SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE volume20 issue 1 SouthJerseyMagazine.com 12 |