It’s a Des Moines Register tradition to close out each year and open the next by introducing readers to 15 People to Watch — individuals expected to make an impact on Iowa in the coming year.
Register journalists and readers make nominations, which editors winnow to 15.
The final 15 include people in business and fashion, those who write for a big Hollywood production, people fighting to prevent stillbirths, farmers thinking about the future of cattle production for small farms, and people fighting to help underserved communities. We hope that you are as inspired by reading about them as we were in profiling them…