WHO SHE IS President of Cooperative Home Care Associates



AGE 45



GREW UP Baychester in the Bronx and the Lower East Side



RESIDES Roselle Park, N.J.



EDUCATION B.A. from Boston College; M.P.A. in health policy and management from the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU



COMPENSATION $200,000. "The presidents of the cooperative have never made more than 10 times [the salary of] the lowest wage earner, and that continues to be the case for me."



2015 REVENUE $60 million



FAMILY BUSINESS Peggy Powell, Adria's mother, is national director of workforce and curriculum development at Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute, the research, advocacy and consulting affiliate of the cooperative.



RAISING AWARENESS Powell serves on the board of the Democracy at Work Institute, an organization created by the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives to develop resources for cooperative businesses nationwide. "We have to draw on each other's experiences and harness the energy of the things that work."



UPTOWN PRIDE Though Powell, a proud graduate of New York City public schools, now lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children, she's still a cheerleader for her old neighborhood. "I think the Bronx is the best-kept secret. It still has a community feeling. It's still got its affordability."

