(from https://web.archive.org/web/20031226123200/https://www.wqed.org/mag/features/0103_ten.shtml)
January 2003
Look for this select group of Pittsburghers to shake up 2003.
By Minette Seate | Photos by Blaine Stiger
Change takes time, but it also takes people to make it. Sure, you're already well familiar with many of the newsmakers for 2003, but we've been thinking of some folks you may not have heard of—yet. We looked at the arts, medicine, politics, business, education and other areas to select 10 prime examples of regional evolution. These people stretch their own boundaries and, by doing so, carry the rest of us along for the ride. Join us in the coming year as we keep an eye on these pacesetters.
SYED SALEH WAZIRUDDIN
co-president of the board, Thomas Merton Center
For those who think that political activism died in the '60s, the Thomas Merton Center serves as a thriving enabler of nonviolent protest. As a board member, Waziruddin uses his own consciousness-raising experiences to help guide the center's mission. Waziruddin himself is a microcosm of world views. The son of Indian and Pakistani parents, he was born in Canada, raised in Saudi Arabia and educated at Carnegie Mellon University, where his views on civil rights and freedoms were allowed to bloom. A combo of youth, optimism and reality, Waziruddin might be the way to get folks thinking beyond their own backyards.
Minette Seate is the producer of Black Horizons, which airs Fridays at 10 p.m., with repeats on Sundays at 2 p.m., on WQED 13, and a contributor to OnQ.
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