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Londyn Smith-De Richelieu
director, Baltimore Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs
Londyn Smith-De Richelieu, a transgender woman, wants to address the
high death rate within the LGBTQ community. “We have to reteach people
on how to engage,” Smith-De Richelieu told The Sun earlier this year.
She partnered with the Baltimore City Health Department to host the
Human Rights Campaign’s Connecting Communities: A National LGBTQ+
Liaison Summit, she said. Baltimore received a 95 out of 100 rating on
HRC’s 2021 report card reviewing nondiscrimination laws, LGBTQ+ equality and more. The high marks contributed to HRC’s decision to hold the
summit in the city.
“I want to see Baltimore back on the map. … Baltimore was a tourist
city. Baltimore had a thriving population,” Smith-De Richelieu said. “I’ve
lived here all my life. These houses were not abandoned houses,” she said.
— Billy Jean Louis
PHOTO BY AMY DAVIS
Sarah Klein
director of Front End Operations,
Klein’s Family Markets/ShopRite
Sarah Klein grew up accompanying her father, Andy Klein, who was
then president of Klein’s Family Markets, to its stores. After college, she
worked her way up in the family business, inspired by her grandmother,
Shirley, who worked with her grandfather in the Harford County grocer,
long before it joined with ShopRite in 2009. “It was very rare for a woman
to work outside the home and be a leader in the community,” said Klein.
“She paved the way for me.”
Klein and her brother have led Klein’s Family Markets since 2019,
when their father died in a vehicle crash.
“We really want to be the hometown supermarket for everybody,”
she said.
— Lorraine Mirabella
PHOTO BY LLOYD FOX
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