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Best Nonprofit Volunteer

Peg Kramer

Single mom Kramer credits her 13-year-old son for motivating her activism on the UT staff salary issue when he asked, "What are you going to do about this, Mom?" What the firebrand has done since becoming president of the University Staff Association has been to mobilize a previously listless organization around the salary issue, forcing (unsatisfactory so far) administration response and causing elected representatives to question what's going on at the state's wealthiest university. Kramer warns the coming fiscal year could lead to an intensified struggle. Sic 'em, Peg!