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ALICIA HORTON
31, emergency medical technician
and firefighter, youth outreach
director for Trans Maryland
“Being trans doesn’t have to be
your only identity,” said Alicia Horton.
“You can do anything you want.”
This has been Horton’s mantra
since she started educating people on
transgender issues in 2010. The Patterson Park resident began her career as
a musical theater dancer, but became
an EMT/firefighter six years ago. She is
also a certified cardiac rescue technician. Horton does it all: from providing medical care and emergency assistance to people in Baltimore, to giving
trans youth the resources to help with
health care and transitioning.
— Lizzy Lawrence
PHOTO BY LLOYD FOX
KATHERINE SELEY-RADTKE
63, medicinal chemist at University of
Maryland, Baltimore County
Just a few years ago, Katherine SeleyRadtke struggled to find funding for her research on coronaviruses at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County. The COVID-19
pandemic has since revived interest in the
medicinal chemist’s work on developing antiviral drugs that could help treat more than
one virus at a time as well as variants.
“Coming up with a way to cure a disease,
there is something really exciting about it,”
she said.
The president-elect of the International
Society for Antiviral Research continues to
advocate for “more proactive and less reactive” approaches to developing treatments
for viruses.
— Lillian Reed
PHOTO BY KIM HAIRSTON
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