Rhonda Ulmer isn't your run-of-the-mill community activist. She reaches out to the neighborhood in various capacities as an advocate for health, teachers, parents, students and women.

"Day in, day out, I'm able to give back to my community," said the longtime volunteer at area schools said. "My job doesn't seem like work."

Ulmer, a community health advocate for Johns Hopkins Health Care by day and an active PTA member and parent advocate by night, has been named one of the country's top 10 "Women of Worth" by L'Oreal Paris.

Her $5,000 award will go to the Van Bokkelen...