Autumn Wiggins-Merrill
Autumn Wiggins-Merrill: Faith & Recovery Network, Richmond, Virginia
For Rev. Autumn Wiggins-Merrill, healing happens when people are met with compassion instead of judgment. As co-founder of Faith & Recovery Network (FRN), she works at the intersection of faith, mental health, and addiction recovery — equipping faith leaders and community organizations with practical tools to better support individuals and families facing substance use and mental health challenges. Rooted in both pastoral care and lived community experience, FRN helps bridge the gap between faith communities and recovery resources through evidence-based training, coaching, advocacy, and strategic partnerships.
Katie Kenyon
Katie Kenyon, Village Green RVA, Richmond, Virginia
Village Green RVA strives to make healthy food and family support accessible to the underserved community. Focusing on children in care (foster, adoptive, kinship, biological) and their families, single parent, and senior adults, the program will offer healthy and sustainable food while providing supportive life and career programs.
Drew Nagy
Drew Nagy, Richmond, Virginia, Living Water Community Center
Drew Nagy is the executive director of Living Water Community Center in Richmond, Virginia. Living Water is an attempt to reimagine what a faith community looks like and how it engages with the local ecosystem. The goal is to create a community committed to the flourishing of all of life on earth. To accomplish this, Living Water focuses on creating space for contemplative practices that support the physical and spiritual well-being of individuals, community and the earth. Living Water is a community center, bee sanctuary, and monastery. Through contemplative practices such as yoga, meditation, mindful beekeeping and urban farming, the hope of Living Water is to create a more sustainable and healthy community, both for the individual and the entire earth community. Read more about Drew Nagy and Living Water here.