Heroes: Nonprofit Professional of the Year

Under Fields' leadership, URI, which provides comprehensive, holistic and supportive human services programs that empower individuals and families in the New York metropolitan area to change their lives for the better, launched New York City's first co-sheltering program, People and Animals Living Safely, to enable domestic violence survivors and their pets reside together in shelter, and the Working Internship Network, a program that provides URI's domestic violence shelter residents with valuable job training and internship opportunities.