Kelly Green

Age: 27

Family: married to Zach and mother of their son Liam with another baby due in September

Employer: City of Cape Girardeau, Public Works Department

Position: Traffic Operations Engineer

Community Involvement: Child Passenger Safety Technician, graduate of Leadership Cape, member of the American Public Works Association, member of the Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety, member of Cape Girardeau Safe Communities, member of Marble Hill United Methodist Church

Kelly Green did not build the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge, but she helped.

"It is exciting to look at the finished product and know that I was one of the many people who helped make it a reality," she says.

The bridge is only one example of a large project in Cape Girardeau of which Green was a part. Though it means intense multi-tasking, she welcomes the day-to-day variety of her job. According to Green, "being able to manage these projects and address and (hopefully) solve problems as they arise is very satisfying to me."