Margaret Graff and Richard Higgins are 2017 Day1 Community Leaders of Faith. Margaret Graff is a private wealth advisor with Ameriprise Financial, where she has been working since 1991. Earlier she was an assistant professor of physics at Georgia Tech. She earned degrees from DePaul, University of Oregon, and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Richard Higgins's career was spent at Georgia Tech and University of Oregon as a professor. He was educated at MIT and Northwestern. Now retired, his activities are directed to philanthropy. Richard and Margaret lead the Mundito Foundation. They attend Kirkwood United Church of Christ.