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OPENING REMARKS 6 From your Lake Highlands editor DEVELOPMENT 14 3 Midtown projects PROFILE 10 Hotchkiss Elementary’s principal 16 Penny’s musical journey 33 The preteen kart racing around the world SPECIAL SECTION 23 Education guide DINING 20 Ghost Pizza FEATURES 8 Bath House’s Día de Muertos exhibition 35 Neighbor Heather Stevens wants a greener Dallas

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Juan Hernandez’s “Remembrance,” oil on canvas, is a past art piece from the Bath House Cultural Center’s Día de Muertos exhibition.

A PARTY FOR THE DEPARTED 40 years of Día de Muertos at the Bath House Story by SYRA CASTILLO

right orange and yellow marigolds decorate wooden altars dedicated to loved ones who have passed. Burning candles illuminate the faces of those who have crossed over. Music plays, food is

shared, and stories of family members fill the air. That is the scene artists have been asked to create for this year’s Día de Muertos: They’re Having a Party! exhibition at the Bath House Cultural

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Center, where the annual celebration is marking its 40th year. “In the scenario of the celebration, we’re thinking about the spirits, about a spiritual presence,” says Enrique Fernández Cervantes, curator and visual

arts coordinator of the Bath House Cultural Center. “We imagine that they’re here and that they’ve come to have fun with us, and we want artists to imagine that setting of festivities and imagine those spirits having a good time.” For Cervantes, that distinction is important. Día de Muertos (also referred to as Día de los Muertos) is not about celebrating death itself, but about remembering the people who have died and the memories they left behind. That idea has shaped the Bath House’s annual exhibition for decades. The exhibition traces its roots to Cora Cardona Hurst, founder of Teatro Dallas, a nonprofit theater that focuses on international works and the Latino experience. Cardona Hurst was using the Bath House Cultural Center as a home for Teatro in the ’80s when she was producing the first iterations of the exhibition. “In 1986, I staged Don Juan Tenorio by Jose Zorrilla, the first DOD show, along with an altar where audiences were able to appreciate the arts and crafts made in Mexico during this holiday,” Cardona Hurst says. Her play included scenes where certain characters dine at tombstones, which she notes as a reason why so many Mexican-Americans embraced it since it deeply resembled the tradition of dining and celebrating at Mexican cemeteries for Día de Muertos. Cardona Hurst decided to bring the Día de Muertos altars into the Bath House’s gallery spaces as an extension of her production to inform the public about the holiday. “She began doing exhibitions here that featured Day of the Dead altars, and she did that one year, and the public responded very well,” Cervantes says. “The then-director (of the Bath House) invited Cora back to do another play.” What began as an extension of a theater production eventually became a recurring exhibition — one that would continue for four decades. By the time Cervantes, who came from Mexico City, arrived at the Bath House Cultural Center in 1999, the exhibition had already become a tradition “I thought, ‘Oh, that’s a festivity that I grew up with, and maybe I can do something to continue that tradition,’” Cervantes says. As visitors began coming to the exhibition, Cervantes noticed their curiosity extended beyond the artwork itself. They wanted to understand the symbols, traditions and details incorporated into the pieces.

Why, visitors would ask, was a monarch butterfly appearing in a work? Why were short poems written alongside certain pieces? Among the traditions he and the Bath House have explored are calaveras — short rhyming poems that can be affectionate, satirical or even used to criticize public figures. “So, throughout the last 10 or 12 years, we’ve thought about one thing that maybe people don’t know much about in regards to the celebration, and we explore that,” he says. This year, about 350 to 400 works are expected to be submitted for consideration, with roughly 45-60 ultimately making their way into the three gallery spaces at the Bath House. “The main thing I look for is whether or not the artists actually read the description of the theme,” he says. “And, that they’re following our directive to think in ways that they can illustrate the theme’s idea.” Cervantes reviews photographs of the submitted artwork without knowing who created each piece. “It’s not only about the aesthetic elements of the piece, although that’s important,” he says. “It’s also about what the piece is communicating and how strongly that piece is touching or moving somebody.” After curating the exhibition 28 times, Cervantes also knows the importance of looking at the artwork through other perspectives. He occasionally seeks input from independent curators and artists who have experience with Día de Muertos exhibitions. But the artists who submit their work — and the people who come to see it — have changed considerably since the exhibition’s early years. Cervantes says that at the very beginning of the exhibition’s history, the majority of the artwork was submitted by artists of Latino origin. Now, the majority of the artists are no longer Latino. Rather than seeing that shift as a departure from the exhibition’s roots, Cervantes views it as a sign that people outside the Mexican culture have found something meaningful in the celebration. “I saw that increase of participation from non-Latinos as something flattering to my community, my Mexican heritage,” Cervantes says. “Day of the Dead is one of the most ancient rituals of the American continent,” Cardona Hurst says. “It belongs to all of us, whoever wants to embrace it and pay tribute to our departed loved ones.” The exhibit will run from Oct. 10 through Nov. 7.

Maggie Wolters, a Mexican artist leading cartonería (papier mâché) artwork in Dallas, is known for her large-scale papier mâché sculptures and Día de Muertos altars. Photos courtesy of Enrique Fernández october 2026 lakehighlands.advocatemag.com Cervantes.

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Principal Katie Benningfield has built a career around expanding opportunities for Dallas students Story by SYRA CASTILLO | Photography by KATHY TRAN

atie Benningfield had just walked out of the lecture hall where she completed her LSAT exam at Texas A&M when a Teach for America (TFA) recruitment table caught her eye. Teaching was not in Benningfield’s career plans at the time. Becoming an immigration attorney was. Still, she diverted over to the table with eager recruiters sitting behind it. “(The recruiters) really spoke about this vision of one day all students, regardless of ZIP code, would have access to a quality education and great opportunities,” she says. The recruiters’ words reminded her of the educational gaps she faced when she enrolled in her neighborhood’s high school in Santa Fe after relocating from San Antonio. Her school’s guidance counselor’s words immediately came to mind after talking with the TFA recruiters. “When I went to enroll at one of the public schools in Santa Fe, the (counselors) cautioned me about enrolling there because they didn’t offer the same number of AP courses as the other high school,” she says. She says she couldn’t understand why her ZIP code was halting her from enrolling at a high school that did offer the courses she wanted. While standing in front of the TFA table, Benningfield had a revelation. She wanted to create a solution to the problem of ZIP codes stopping children from receiving a quality education. “I was like, ‘You know what? I can do this for a couple of years,’” she says. “And so I joined the TFA and was placed in Dallas.” She arrived here in 2014 and began teaching for Dallas ISD at Blanton Elementary in Pleasant Grove. “During my second year teaching, Blanton became part of the ACE 1.0 schools,” Benningfield says. ACE, which stands for Accelerating Campus Excellence, launched during the 2015-16 school year at six historically low-performing campuses that had been designated by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) as “improvement required.” Within the four years Benningfield spent at Blanton Elementary, the school went from one of the district’s lowest-performing campuses to one of its highest. According to a 2018 D Magazine article, 82% of Blanton’s fifth graders met TEA’s grade-level standard on the 2017 math STAAR exam. By comparison,

79% of fifth graders in Highland Park ISD met the same standard. “(The scores) just show that students can achieve when it’s just about the opportunities we provide,” Benningfield says. “It was that love and inspiration that actually had me then become a founding teacher at the School for the Talented and Gifted (TAG) in Pleasant Grove four years later.” From 2018 to 2022, Benningfield worked closely with then-principal Ruby Garza and the TAG administration to build the program from the ground up. Benningfield says the one question that remained at the forefront of the entire faculty’s mind when planning new initiatives for the students was, “What are the skills and opportunities and experiences that students will need in order to be college and career-ready?” Benningfield and her team began envisioning ways to expose students to a variety of careers by bringing professionals from different fields to speak with TAG students. “We were able to create pathways for robotics, theater and other (interests),” she says. “We were also able to start career days for our students to see what else there is in the world and to encourage them to pursue opportunities beyond what they normally would have had.” Currently, the School for the Talented and Gifted offers a wide range of extracurricular activities, including academic pentathlon, Destination Imagination, esports, a crochet club and other activities for every type of student. After four years at the School for the Talented and Gifted, Benningfield took the next step in her career, moving into school administration. She served as an assistant principal at Rosemont Primary SchoolChris V. Semos Campus (Lower Campus) from 2022 to 2023 before becoming principal of Rosemont Primary in 2023. Her transition from teacher to principal, she says, broadened her perspective on education. Her role was no longer limited to motivating students; she was now responsible for supporting teachers, families and the broader school community. After spending four years at Rosemont Primary, Benningfield found out that a principal vacancy at Hotchkiss Elementary opened up. Eager to return back to her original roots, Benningfield applied. “When I first moved to Dallas, I actually lived october 2026 lakehighlands.advocatemag.com 11

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THREE AT FIVE Three Midtown Dallas mobility projects aim to link trails and create safer connections

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or pedestrians and cyclists navigating the Five Points intersection of Park Lane and Fair Oaks Avenue, the route can mean weaving around school drop-off lines, unpaved sidewalks, apartment traffic and busy streets. T h r e e p l a n n e d m o b i l ity projects from Midtown Dallas Inc. (MDI), which manages the Midtown Impor vement District, could e ventually make that trip easier, creating new connections between trails, schools, transit stations and other destinations in the area. The projects — a shared-use trail along Greenville Avenue, a redesign of Ridgecrest Road and an expansion of the SoPac Trail — are in varying stages of development and design.

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S H A R E D US E T RA I L The planned Shared Use Trail from Midtown will run along Greenville Avenue from Northwest Highway to just short of Royal Lane, creating connections to the SoPac, Ridgewood, Northaven and White Rock Creek trails. The project was selected by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to receive federal funding through its Transportation Alternatives grant program, which supports non-motorized infrastructure such as sidewalks, bike lanes and shared-use paths. The project received an award of about $10.46 million. “We originated the idea, and we applied for the grant,” says Nick Palles, co-executive director of MDI “It’s an 80/20 grant, and this trail will be real for people to use in three or four years, which is such an incredible timeline.” Under an 80/20 grant, TxDOT will cover 80% of the total project costs, while the local recipient will cover the remaining 20% of the project. MDI, along with consultants at Kimley-Horn, led the application process for the grant, which was awarded on Nov. 13, 2025, as part of the Texas Transportation Commission’s selection process to award federal funds and transportation development credits (TDC) to support an assortment of bicycle and pedestrian planning initiatives across the state. A total of about $284.76 million in federal funds and up to about 31.6 million TDCs were awarded in the Nov. 13 announcement. The Shared Use Trail will run about two miles from north to south and will connect to the SoPac Trail. The new bike infrastructure will also merge with both Walnut Hill Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Station and Park Lane DART Station. “We have Bronx-level density right here in Dallas, in Vickery and in Midtown, so this is going to be a massively transformational project to northeast Dallas,” Palles says.

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Part of The Loop, the SoPac Trail is a commuter and recreational bike and hike trail that runs from Lawther Road north towards Forest Lane and U.S. 75. As one portion of The Loop’s mission to connect all of the Dallas area into one continuous 50-mile urban trail, the SoPac Trail is being expanded by the City of Dallas to connect to the Northaven Trail that stretches along Walnut Hill Lane, Royal Lane and across Central Expressway. “This project has been designed and is in the approval process with the City of Dallas,” Palles says. “(Construction) was originally to be completed in 2026 but has been delayed.” Since the $4 million project is federally funded, construction was delayed due to multiple reviews and approvals, including TxDOT and DART. The design for the expansion is approximately 60% done, with design completion estimated for December, says Amanda Reyes, District 13 council assistant. The expansion is part of DART right-of-way (ROW), which is the legally controlled land, corridor or property owned or managed by DART. Reyes says construction is set to begin in May 2027 with a completion date in October 2027. The construction award is expected in late summer 2027. “One key factor that could impact the (completion) schedule is the acquisition of required easements from agencies and utilities such as DART and Oncor,” Reyes says. “The timing of those approvals remains uncertain and could result in project delays.”

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Initiated by the MDI, the $7.2 million Ridgecrest Petition Improvement Project, funded in full by the City of Dallas’s 2017 bond, calls for the complete redesign of Ridgecrest Road as a complete street. The redesign will link local paths directly to the nearby SoPac Trail, making it more navigable for pedestrians and cyclists to travel toward White Rock Lake, The Shops at Park Lane or NorthPark Center. Currently, Ridgecrest Road, at certain points, has bar ditches. With the road leading directly to Sam Tasby Middle School, the remodeled road would alleviate school traffic by incorporating paved sidewalks for students to use when commuting to school. “(Ridgecrest Road) is a high-traffic route for kids walking to school because we have a super high-density area that is encapsulated,” Palles says. “We need to make sure that (students) are safe when they’re out in the streets.” According to the Dallas Department of Transportation and Public Works, the project includes local street construction of approximately 4,900 linear feet with 24-foot-wide reinforced concrete pavement with curb and gutter, shared-use sidewalks, drive approaches, storm drainage, landscape improvements, lighting and water and wastewater improvements. City staff are currently working with franchise utilities to complete utility relocation and make progress with the right-of-way easement. The design process is complete as of September, with construction expected to start in 2027. The three separate paths are coming together despite distinct designs and differing funding sources. “These are absolutely separate projects, but they weave together a very exciting mobility network in Midtown for pedestrians and cyclists,” Palles says. “The three projects practically form a triangle of shared-use trails that connect the entire district.” october 2026 lakehighlands.advocatemag.com 15

A SEAT AT THE S TA G E Penny Laussade adds another signature to the stool that follows her musical journey Story by SYRA CASTILLO Photography by LAUREN ALLEN

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Penny Laussade would pretend to tune her Hello Kitty guitar when she was 4 years old and would spend hours playing it.

PENNY LAUSSADE LIKES W H E N H E R GU I TA RS B R E A K . When the bridges of her guitars begin to lift after years of use, it means she gets to spend hours at Guitar Center, sitting in the acoustic room at the back of the store while her dad brings her guitar after guitar to strum. Sitting in the humidified room, surrounded by guitars hanging on the walls, she carefully runs her fingertips over the chords of the instrument resting on her lap. She knows she needs to meticulously choose her next guitar. Laussade, a senior at Lake Highlands High School, has been musically inclined since she was 4 years old. In fact, she composed her first song with her dad at that same age. “My parents started me on the piano when I was like 10, and I didn’t love it,” Laussade says. “I got angry with it all the time. I played for about two or three more years, and then I got my guitar.” She says she didn’t feel the same resentment toward the guitar that she had felt toward the piano. “A guitar is only yours. It’s very mobile, and you can take it anywhere,” she says. “I like it more because it feels more personal, and there’s more variation to it.” With her mind set on making the guitar her instrument of choice, she asked her piano instructor to teach her how to play classical guitar. From there, she began using it as a tool to accompany her singing. But singing and playing guitar together created something more: a performance. Then, one night at her mom’s nonprofit event, Laussade found an opportunity. She built up the courage to ask Vector Brewing owner Craig Bradley, who was in attendance, if she could perform at the brewery. “I was really scared, but I went up to him and asked him, and he was like, ‘Oh yeah, we’d love to have you,’” Laussade says. For the past two years, Laussade has been performing every six weeks at the brewery, where she mainly covers folk, indie and country songs, drawing on her background in classical guitar. Her performances have become

more than just singing in front of a crowd. Laussade brings her famous stool. Besides sitting on it, she asks the audience, who have watched her grow as a musician, to sign the legs of the stool. She even recently started playing some of her original songs that she saves for the end of her performance. “I think that I gained almost all of my confidence as a performer by performing my own music because I get to showcase my own stuff,” she says. Laussade has five completed songs but typically plays only two at a time. She began writing her first song, “Burn,” in eighth grade, imagining a young girl wishing for her ex-boyfriend to burn after he’s finished lying to her. “‘Burn’ has definitely changed over the years as I’ve grown into it,” she says. “I hadn’t had any romantic experiences then when I wrote it, and I kind of imagined how it would be.” With college around the corner, Laussade hopes to produce and release “Burn” on streaming platforms before she graduates high school. But as she looks toward college, Laussade is still figuring out where music fits into her future. “I’ve been conflicted with that for a while,” she says. “I’ve been looking at UT-Austin, which has a very intimidating music program, but I’ve also been looking at Belmont University in Nashville that has a lot of majors regarding business music and songwriting.” Laussade’s mom, Alice, says songwriting has helped Laussade when she’s experienced teenage blues. “(Songwriting) is just something that’s just really soothing for her,” Alice says. “I think that’s been a really good mental support for her throughout the good and bad times in life.” Laussade says she writes mainly at night. About everything. Between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. when she can’t sleep, she finds herself sitting in her desk chair with song lyrics floating through her mind. “(The guitar) has become meditation,” she says. “I get really restless sometimes when I’m on vacation or just out of town for something, and I don’t have it with me.”

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F R A N K N U C C I O was only in the seventh grade when he was put in charge of running his family’s pizzeria, Pizza by Marco, by himself for a week when his mom was having surgery. Although it was a daunting responsibility for a middle schooler, Nuccio had been helping his father with the pizzeria since he was 8 years old. By then, he knew the ins and outs of creating the perfect pie. Decades later, those early lessons continue to shape Nuccio’s approach to pizza. As the owner of Ghost Pizza, located in Northview Plaza, he’s applying everything he learned about consistency and quality to a new generation of customers. “I never really pictured myself staying in the business, and throughout my life, I’ve had my own businesses,” Nuccio says. His first venture was Video Quest, a video rental store at Preston Road and Royal Lane. When the Dallas Stars relocated from Minnesota, Nuccio gambled on adding a small selection of roller hockey equipment. The move paid off, eventually leading him to open Center Ice Hockey Supply in Addison. However, everything changed in 1995 when Nuccio’s father died. The following year, he

stepped in to manage Pizza by Marco’s books, inventory and ordering. Even as he helped run the family business, Nuccio continued pursuing new ventures. Following the release of the Counter-Strike video game, he launched a video game league that eventually grew into a company p ro d u c i n g m u l t i m i l l i o n- d o l l a r e s p o r t s tournaments around the world. After selling his esports company, Nuccio turned his attention back to Pizza by Marco since he says Preston Hollow was “devoid of good food.” As the restaurant’s lunch business continued to grow, he returned to his entrepreneurial roots and began thinking bigger. “The pizzeria was doing better and better in the shopping center, and Borders Bookstore had just moved in, and we’re getting a big lunch business,” he says. “And I was like, I’m going to open up a couple more of these.” By the late 2000s, Nuccio had expanded Pizza by Marco beyond its original Preston Ro a d l o c at i o n , o p e n i n g re s t a u ra n t s i n West Plano, Addison, Carrollton and The Woodlands. But growth came at a cost. As the only person who knew the family’s sauce recipe, Nuccio was making sauce for multiple october 2026 lakehighlands.advocatemag.com 19

restaurants while also overseeing the flagship location. “When I was a teenager, I’d asked my dad, ‘Let’s open up more stores,’ and he’d say, ‘No, it’s too much work. We’re doing fine right now,’” he says. “I didn’t like the answer they gave me, but now, I understand.” After manning multiple locations, the final push to close Pizza by Marco was with the passing of Nuccio’s mother in 2019. Once the pizzeria’s leases ended, he decided to close them down. After trying his hand at owning a boba store called Squishies, Nuccio remembers feeling his parent’s strong personalities urging him to get back into the pizza business. “I kept hearing in the back of my head my mom, my dad nudging me to get back in the pizza business,” he says. “Their ghosts were talking to me.” Those “ghosts” became the inspiration behind Nuccio’s newest pizzeria, Ghost Pizza. Nuccio hopes to give customers an affordable option by keeping menu prices at 2019 levels, including a twopizzas-for-$20 special. Keeping prices low starts with his business model. Rather than investing heavily in renovations or a large staff, Nuccio has focused on keeping overhead c o s t s d o w n w h i l e m a k i n g g ra d u a l improvements as his business grows. He hopes to replace the restaurant’s tables with booths later this year. “People are trying to maximize their profits. But me, I just want to pay my bills. I want to save some money, but I’m not looking to be a jillionaire,” he says. About five years ago, Nuccio began experiencing joint pain that he initially thought was arthritis. After researching possible causes and changing his diet, he says the pain disappeared once he focused on high quality ingredients — a practice he is implementing in his pizzeria. Today, Nuccio uses organic flour, cooks sausages and hamburger meat in-house, fries appetizers in beef tallow, and says he prioritizes ingredients such as imported olive oil, black and green

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iam Nachawati lives near White Rock Lake, but he spends a lot of time traveling the world, competing in kart races. Not bad for a 12-year-old. Liam started kart racing as a 6-year-old. His uncle, an engineer who has an interest in cars and watches Formula 1 racing, let Liam use his racing simulator, similar to a video game but hooked up to a rig with a steering wheel and pedals. This exercise revealed that, in Liam’s words, he “wasn’t that bad.” His family bought a kart for him to try out. Once he took it out for a spin on a track in Denton, his racing career was put into motion. “I definitely got my first taste of real speed, and that was good,” Liam says. He started out small — local races with North Texas Karters, plus regional ones — and leveled up from the Micro Swift class to Mini Swift. The categories are based on the driver’s age, the size of the kart chassis, horsepower and top speed. He proceeded to national racing, which netted him several wins. “At the end of my Micro Swift career, we switched over to the Italy racing,” Liam says. “My first was 2024. I did seven weeks in Italy, I think, in the summer. So the full summer I left, like, the day school ended, and then I got back a week before school. I think I only had four days at home the entire summer, but it was really fun.” This is when he realized that his hobby was turning serious. He went from finishing in the top 10 in Italy to the top five and almost reaching the podium. Liam leveled up again to the class X30 Junior in America or OKJ in Europe. Now, 90% of his time is spent racing, says Liam’s father, Majed Nachawati, and the season is basically never-ending. This year, he was scheduled for events in Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany and Sweden. The competitiveness of this sport is why Liam had to switch from attending Parish Episcopal School in Dallas to the online academy Laurel Springs. He practices on his three-screen racing simulator at home as well as the one at his apartment in Italy. And he frequently plays games related to his sport. “When I’m not racing, I’m always racing,” Liam says. Crashes do happen, but in Liam’s case, they tend to be more akin to fender benders than fiery explosions. Sometimes they’re just setbacks that can be recovered from. “When you crash, I think for me, it gives me a bit more hunger to try to come back and still get a good result from what, obviously, I came from, was last place with a big gap,” Liam says. “Trying to recover a lot of positions is hard, but I would say me driving from the back, I’m quite aggressive. And for me, it’s quite fun to overtake a lot of people.” Liam once injured his wrist when his steering wheel snapped during a low-impact accident, which resulted in him having to wear a cast all the way down his dominant right arm for six weeks.

“It was like you were a toddler again,” his mother, Alma Nachawati, says about taking care of her son during this time. But Liam didn’t completely take the time off. In fact, he thinks he came back stronger. He still practiced on his simulator, only using one hand. And he made it to the podium in races after returning to the track. “I’m never really scared of crashing,” he says. “It’s always a risk every time you go out on the track.” And in this sport, being fearless is a good thing. “If they have fear, unfortunately, they’re going to be a bit timid when they come to racing and all that stuff, which is normal,” says Bill McLaughlin, Liam’s engineer (mechanic). “Most people have fear, but if you don’t, then you just have that little bit of edge that you can make the pass and not worry about it versus someone that’s going to be a bit timid about it. Just that little bit makes a difference.” Watching him on the track is scary for Alma but Majed says this sport is no less destructive than more traditional ones. “On an average race weekend, there’s a risk he may be in a bad crash, but knock on wood, most race weekends, he’s not in a crash,” Majed says. “He may rub bumpers, he may do this or that, but he’s not violently crashing into a kid, full speed, every play. In my perspective, I think football and other sports like soccer, where you’re using your head to hit the ball, and hockey, where you’re beating each other up and getting in fights, I think those sports pose a greater continuing danger than the isolated incidents that happen on the track with far less frequency.” To prevent serious injuries, he wears a rib protector, chestplate, HANS device to safeguard his neck, gloves and, of course, a helmet with a chin strap. His whole suit is fire retardant. He changes out his visors depending on the weather and now uses contacts instead of glasses, which can be dangerous if they fog up. Liam’s helmet features both the U.S. and Lebanese flags as markers of his heritage. (He’s also part Mexican but couldn’t fit that flag on the helmet.) The comic book character Venom is also pictured on the head gear and has been since Liam’s first coach designed his first painted helmet and added the iconic anti-hero. Now, Venom’s presence is a tradition. Majed recalled a moment where a competitor crashed with Liam, and when that driver was trapped, Liam helped him get out of the kart. “His character shows that above competitiveness and winning comes sportsmanship and professionalism,” Liam’s father says. McLaughlin has worked with other kids who race, and by now, he can tell who has what it takes and who doesn’t. Liam is one of those who has what it takes. “If he wants to be a race car driver,” he says, “he’ll be a race car driver.”

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n a New Jersey high school in the early 2000s, a group of students raised funds to buy a portion of land in Brazil to preserve. Among them was Heather Stevens, who was already interested in protecting spaces and leaving them better than she found them. Today, Stevens is a Lake Highlands resident, president and CEO of Rise 360 Consulting and CEO of Scalanthropy. “I started Rise 360 Consulting 13 years ago, and I do large-scale capital strategies for revitalization projects around green space, human health, safety and art preservation,” Stevens says. “I’m currently working on two big (projects) right now.” One of those projects is south of Fair Park, where Stevens is helping lead the capital strategy for a roughly $40 million community park. The project aims to transform land once occupied by homes and businesses taken through eminent domain in the late 1960s and early 1970s into a community asset serving about 13 neighborhoods. Fair Park is 277 acres, more than 80% of which Stevens says is covered by impermeable surfaces, leaving little tree canopy and contributing to the area’s heat. A master plan for the park called for green space along its perimeter, including the area where the new community park will be built. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, 300 Black homes and businesses were bulldozed through eminent domain to make way for parking lots serving Fair Park, Stevens says. Residents were promised green space in return. More than 50 years later, that promise has yet to be fulfilled. “Back in 2022, Fair Park decided they were going to proceed forward in fulfilling that promise, and

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so I got pulled,” Stevens says. “I got hired to come and help them build out the strategy to raise the funding for it, and it has been a complex road for them. But just recently, we’re over 90% secured in funding, and construction will start at the end of this year.” The park will include multiple children’s areas for different ages, a dog park, an expansive green lawn, a pavilion, a stage, a fitness loop and outdoor fitness equipment. The project will also include programming focused on health screenings, fairs and small businesses. The fence along Fitzhugh Avenue will come down, Stevens says, giving residents direct access to the new green space. The project will also include 60 permanent parking spaces for the community. The park is expected to break ground at the end of this year and be completed in mid-2028. Her other major project is in the Southwest Medical District, where she is partnering with Texas Trees Foundation as its capital strategist. The Southwest Medical District is the city’s second-largest employment center and, according to Stevens, its largest heat island. More than 80% of the district is covered by impermeable surfaces, while less than 5% has tree canopy. “The medical district is supposed to be an area of healing,” Stevens says. “It is within the buildings, but immediately when you step outside, very poor air quality. It’s very hot, and it’s unsafe.” The $250 million project is a collaboration between Texas Trees Foundation and the City of Dallas and is designed to improve human health and safety, environmental resilience and infrastructure throughout the district and surrounding neighborhoods. The project will begin with the relandscaping of Harry Hines Boulevard, including the planting of 4,000 trees. Stevens says the project is expected to improve air quality and reduce temperatures by 15 to 20 degrees. Later phases will transform a highway interchange into a cap park, with the roadway running underneath, and add a pedestrian bridge over Harry Hines Boulevard. The changes are intended to make it easier and safer for people to walk between the medical district’s institutions and surrounding neighborhoods. The Harry Hines Boulevard portion is expected to break ground at the end of next year, with the park following in late 2028 or early 2029. For both projects, Stevens’ role is less about managing the money and more about figuring out how to bring it together. “I help build out the capital strategy,” she says. “So how the funds are going to be raised, how they’re going to be procured, and how they’re going to be brought together to make the project work.” That means looking at state, federal and local funding, as well as private philanthropy, and finding a way to bring those sources together. It also means telling the story of each project and connecting it with the people and organizations who can help make it happen.

“These are just two examples, but I’ve worked on many projects and hope to work on other projects that are just as powerful and impactful to our city,” Stevens says. Stevens’ approach to connecting purpose with funding also led her to create Scalanthropy, a platform designed to help nonprofits find donors whose giving aligns with their work. The name, which Stevens coined several years ago, combines “scaling” and “philanthropy.” The idea grew out of her work at Rise 360 Consulting, where she created an algorithm and database to help identify potential donors for specific projects. “Everything is very personal,” Stevens says. “It’s about what are their alignments in giving? What are they passionate about?” Stevens noticed that many of the nonprofits coming her way were small organizations with annual budgets between $200,000 and $1 million. Existing donor-search software could be expensive, making it almost impossible for smaller organizations to access the same type of information. So, she built her own resource. Scalanthropy allows nonprofits to search for potential donors based on factors such as geographic location, causes and specific areas of interest. Steven says the database contains more than $1 trillion in donor data and can be searched down to individual ZIP codes. The platform also works in another manner. Donors and individuals can search nonprofits and see information about their standing and giving history, creating transparency between the organizations seeking funding and the people providing it. “It doesn’t do the fundraising for you,” Stevens says. “It still requires people to be thoughtful about how they fundraise, but it gives you the resources and the right donors that you can have and go and plan to (talk to).” Stevens began building the database as a concept in 2017, but Scalanthropy officially launched in January of this year. The platform costs $25 a month with no contract, which she says was intentional. Stevens’ work extends beyond the projects she is hired to build. She has also served as the president of the Executive Women of Dallas organization, continuing her involvement in efforts that connect people, philanthropy and the community. Whether she is helping transform a piece of land, creating new green spaces across Dallas or helping a small nonprofit find the right donor, Steven says her work ultimately comes back to the same idea that first sparked her interest in preserving nature as a high school student. “I like the idea of being able to leave things better than they were and improve them,” she says. “So whether it’s preserving or conserving something, or it’s building something where something doesn’t exist.” For Stevens, that means finding ways to preserve what is worth protecting, and for her, Dallas is worth protecting.

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