Kudos: Syd Gris

Occupation: Psychologist, DJ, social activist

Home: San Francisco

Achievement: A founding board member of SF LoveFest, a dance party to promote peace scheduled for Oct. 4. Gris also provides child and family psychotherapy to clients in the foster care system in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point.

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