Helen C. Kregg, B.A. 1991

Helen C. Kregg, B.A. 1991, cofounder and current president of the Minority Health Coalition (MHC), a nonprofit organization in Buffalo, NY that seeks to improve the quality of life for minorities through health education, health services and wellness opportunities, has been honored with the 2002 Mildred Francis McGuire Lockwood Lacey Award for Excellence in Civic Responsibility.

Before helping found the MHC in 1998, Kregg was president of the Linwood-Oxford Community Association. In 1992 she received the Rita Webb Smith Citizen Drug Fighter of the Year Award from then-governor of New York State Mario Cuomo.

Kregg has also served as a member of the Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) board of directors and was selected by HOME to operate—in collaboration with the Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Centers—an innovative housing mobility program, the Greater Buffalo Community Housing Center. In addition, she has been an active member of the Lupus Foundation since 1996. She resides in Buffalo.