After 30-plus years in the private sector, Frances Kallam joined the City of Greensboro's Engineering & Inspections Department last September for one important reason – to serve the community she grew up in. Now, as the City's chief design engineer, she's doing just that as she leads a talented staff and manages project schedules and coordinates design services for the City's Transportation Department.

Rena Comer has worked to improve people and communities since growing up in the US Virgin Islands. The North Carolina A&T State University graduate came to Greensboro on a volleyball and academic scholarship and has made a career of helping others. Today she serves as the project manager for the City’s People and Culture Department and is the founder and executive director of a local nonprofit.

Not long after returning to the Water Resources Department for a second tour of duty, Jana Stewart received a once-in-a-lifetime kind of assignment: help the City fulfill its promise to provide City water and sewer service to the massive Guilford-Randolph Megasite 16 miles away. Read how the mother of two accomplished the task, thanks partly to a 180-foot-high water tank.

When Danny and Jodie Stanley enrolled in a professional development class offered by the City’s Human Resources Department, they thought they were simply brushing up on their leadership skills. While the training has served them well in their more than two decades of combined City service, they came away with much more. Read how the couple eventually married on a whirlwind trip to Key West and became a family of eight.

For some, December marks one of the most wonderful times of the year. For 18-year Field Operations employee Fred Sparks, it marks when he gets to dress as a familiar seasonal character and spread holiday cheer to children of all ages.

While it’s a popular theme on movie and television screens, real crime scene investigation is unlike what’s portrayed by Hollywood. Meet Kelli Wise, a US Air Force veteran, and CSI for the City police department’s forensics division.