28TH ANNUAL MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
“LIVING THE DREAM” COMMUNITY DINNER CELEBRATION JANUARY 12, 2022
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS Title Sponsor
Diversity Sponsors
Program Sponsors
Table Sponsors Axon • Diversity Leadership Alliance • Scottsdale Unified School District
CCD BOARD OF DIRECTORS CCD President
CCD Treasurer
CCD Past President
Director of Membership Experience Scottsdale
Director of Business Services Health World Education
Regional Banking District Manager, VP Wells Fargo Bank
Sarah Kearney
Joe Rusin
CCD Vice President
CCD Secretary
Assistant Fire Chief City of Scottsdale Fire Dept.
President (interim) Scottsdale Community College
Ryan Freeburg
Jeffrey Harris
Attorney Titus, Brueckner & Levine, PLC
Marion Kelly
Director, Community and Business Relations Mayo Clinic
Dr. Scott Menzel
Superintendent Scottsdale Unified School District
Kevin Richardson
Chris Haines
Michelle Pabis
Vice President, Government & Community Affairs HonorHealth
Melody Rodriguez
External Relations Manager APS
Brent Stockwell
Assistant City Manager City of Scottsdale
David Wilson
Underwriting Manager National Partners Nationwide
Peter Rusin
Executive Director Health World Education
MLK Planning Committee Programming
Melody Rodriguez Kristy Hahn-McDonald
Youth Scholarship Julie Reeve
VOICES
Ann Achtziger
Diversity Champions Brent Stockwell Sarah Kearney Ryan Freeburg Michelle Pabis Peter Rusin Joe Rusin Cindy Slick Linda Groomes Walton Donald Logan
Registration
Donna Cole Susan Hagen-Smith Helen Gándara Amy Herring Danise Folk Elaine Cowans
Marketing Eric Sells
PROGRAM
Ms. Carmen Green & Ms. Audrey Evans Sign Language Interpreters
DOORS OPEN Pilgrim Rest Choir
DINNER
WELCOME Sarah Kearney President, Community Celebrating Diversity
SPONSOR RECOGNITION: APS TITLE SPONSOR Sharee Hurts Strategic Partnerships Program Manager
MASTER OF CEREMONIES Marion Kelly Mayo Clinic
DIVERSITY CHAMPION AWARDS Nationwide Cox Communications
PRESENTATION OF COLORS Scottsdale Police and Fire Color Guard
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Patricia Russell-McCloud
NATIONAL ANTHEM Sania Sumar
CLOSING REMARKS Sarah Kearney
BLACK NATIONAL ANTHEM James “Rambo” Smith
“WE SHALL OVERCOME” Led by Marion Kelly
INVOCATION Pastor Mark Yule Highlands Church
We shall overcome, We shall overcome, We shall overcome, some day. Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe We shall overcome, some day.
REMARKS Honorable Mayor David Ortega City of Scottsdale
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Patricia Russell-McCloud With more than 20 years on the lecture circuit, Patricia RussellMcCloud is categorized as being one of the nation’s best in providing a “visual speaking experience.” Her speaking style is engaging, highly substantive, well-researched, pertinent to her audiences, and entertaining, whether for the public or private sector. She is distinguished and distinct. Her style is classified as “big, broad and animated”, which leaves her audiences anxious for more. With each presentation she demonstrates, yet again, that she is a master at her craft as she artfully seeks to master the spoken word. In sum, this is a “speaker’s speaker” who specializes ascertaining the organization’s culture, interests and challenges The client, in turn, receives the value-add of the experience and exposure to this qualitatively measurable speaker who is, in a word, unforgettable. Each year she speaks to more than 100,000 people in private and public organizations, in the United States and internationally. She encourages her listeners to surmount every obstacle that stands between them and... the possible. Her client list includes, but is not limited to, AARP, National Association of Women’s Business Owners, AT&T, Women’s Food Service Forum, eWomen’s Network, Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club, General Motors, American Honda, Cox Enterprises, McDonald’s, Northrop Grumman, General Electric, McGraw Hill Publishing, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Xerox, Procter & Gamble, and The United States Postal Service. Each company has benefited from having Russell-McCloud share her informed, inspirational wisdom and wit. As a member of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO), she studied at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. She earned her Juris Doctorate degree at Howard University, School of Law, Washington, DC. Prior to embarking upon her speaking career, Russell-McCloud was an attorney with the Federal Communications Commission, Chief, Complaints Branch, Broadcast Bureau, Washington, DC for ten years. Then she decided to follow her true passion which was to be a business entrepreneur and global professional orator. Born in Indianapolis, IN, and graduating from Kentucky State University she knew that her true career connection was to prepare meaningful presentations for diverse audiences, and to meet them at their point of need. She has received many honors, including being presented more than 300 keys to American cities. She has served as the 11th National President of The Links, Inc., and the National Parliamentarian to the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She has been named as one of the top five business motivators in the country by Black Enterprise Magazine; identified as one of the top 10 speakers in America, “Success Runs in Our Race”; featured in ESSENCE Magazine, and in EBONY magazine as one of the most influential people in the United States, and featured as the cover story of SPEAKER magazine, National Speaker’s Association 2007 July/August. A resident of Atlanta, Georgia, Russell-McCloud is married to Bishop E. Earl McCloud, Jr., the 127th elected and consecrated Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
DIVERSITY CHAMPIONS
CHRIS HAINES Interim President
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Scottsdale Community College
With 38 years in higher education, Chris Haines has led educational initiatives designed to support marginalized and at-risk populations to reduce barriers to access, such as the Hannelly Center One Stop Enrollment Center at Phoenix College and launching scholarships for DACA/ Dreamer students. While coaching women’s sports at South Mountain Community College, she realized many of the players required flexible schedules to participate and she adjusted practice times to accommodate everybody. During the summer of 2020, the campus community was hurting from the tragic death of George Floyd. She held multiple town halls, and encouraged everyone to share their experiences. She quickly launched an extensive diversity, equity and inclusion committee to engage and support the campus community. She serves on the Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce, Community Celebrating Diversity, East Valley Think Tank, City of Scottsdale Education Committee, Scottsdale Coalition of Today and Tomorrow (SCOTT) and Arizona Happy Tails Dog Rescue.
ANGELA HUGHEY Co-founder and President
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ONE Community & ONE Community Foundation
Angela Hughey exemplifies leadership through her work within the LGBTQ+ community and the broader business and political communities in Arizona. She co-founded ONE Community in 2008 with the goal of engaging socially responsible businesses, organizations and individuals who support and promote diversity, inclusion, equity and equality for all Arizonans. In 2013, Angela and the ONE Community team launched the UNITY Pledge to advance workplace equality and equal treatment in housing and public accommodations for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBTQ) individuals and their allies. More than 3,300 businesses and 20,000 Arizonans have taken the UNITY Pledge, the largest equality pledge in the nation. Angela has won multiple awards for her work on inclusion and awareness including the Human Rights Campaign Individual Equality Award, Echo Magazine’s Woman of the Year and the Anti-Defamation League’s Al Brooks Community Leadership Award. Angela is a 2021 Phoenix Business Journal, Most Admired Leader.
ALAN “AP” POWELL Chairman and CEO
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AP & Associates
Alan “AP” Powell is a serial entrepreneur, Gulf War Veteran, philanthropist and a renowned strategic consultant developing relationships for Fortune 500 companies. Powell is also the founder of the non-profit HeroZona Foundation which serves students and veterans by giving them access to educational opportunities to ensure they get to cross the “finish line.” The Foundation’s programs include HeroZona National Veteran Summit, Veterans Reach to Teach, Phoenix Tools 4 Schools, the Bridge Forum, Play It Forward, among many others. In addition, his foundation is working on a series of Bridge Forums in an effort to understand different perspectives, attitudes and beliefs about community policing. Previous topics discussed ways to better support veterans with recruitment, hiring, opportunities in service, veterans in crisis and support systems. Another one of his more recent projects includes the Play It Forward program, which exposes students to the arts at an early age with opportunities to learn, create and grow.
EVENTS
Scottsdale Community Collaborative Scholarships Applications now open. Deadline is March 21, 2022 Apply at ccdarizona.org/youth-scholarships CCD awards $2,500 scholarships to high school graduates who have had a positive impact on fostering diversity within the Scottsdale Community through leadership activities and community service. These scholarships are for study at post-secondary institutions of higher education in Arizona. Town Hall – Chaos or Community: What can Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s work and writings teach us now? January 17, 2022 | 3:30 – 5:00 p.m Horizon Community Center | 15444 N. 100th St., Scottsdale Join friends and neighbors for a facilitated discussion that considers Dr. King’s final published work, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? and what lessons it, and Dr. King’s other work, have for us today. This discussion is for everyone ages 15 and older, and is hosted by the Scottsdale Human Relations Commission. Light refreshments will be served. The event is free, but please register in advance at ScottsdaleAZ.gov, search “diversity.” The Motown Story January 22, 2022 | 2:00 p.m. | Civic Center Library Dive into the iconic Motown Sound with Vinnie Bruno, Rock Historian, as he constructs the house that Barry Gordy built with sensational recording artists and “hit machine” writing teams.
Many Thanks
Thank you to the City of Scottsdale’s Communications Office and Scottsdale Video Network, including Kelly Corsette, Amanda Willis, Craig Noll, Al Kane and Becca Cox. Thanks also to Doug Williams and Chad Sexton, Scottsdale Police Department’s photographers, and the wonderful support from the Embassy Suites Scottsdale Resort. Thanks to the Saguaro High School String Quartet for providing the pre-event entertainment.
PEACE, UNITY, AND UNDERSTANDING. Community Celebrating Diversity (CCD) works to promote these qualities in our families, our communities, and our world through programs and events that touch the mind and heart, and encourage respect for all. CCD is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization based in Scottsdale that promotes educational and community events which celebrate and create a greater awareness of our community’s diversity. CCD was founded in 1993 by Sandra Rembrandt, Don Logan and Art Decabooter.
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