Debbie has led with her effervescent smile through an extensive professional background in Arizona, where she has found success working with small business and corporate entities, as well as essential nonprofit missions. Highly skilled in public relations, marketing, community engagement, and investor and donor stewardship, Debbie is recognized as an accomplished business leader and community advocate. As an innovative collaborator and problem-solver, Debbie’s corporate procurement achievements cultivated a strong network of influence, which manifested the opportunity to contribute to the national consolidation of retail banking operations for a Fortune 500 financial institution. Recognizing the importance of relationships alongside a growing sense of social purpose, Debbie redirected her business acumen toward community initiatives focused on youth development, human services, and health equity, and has become known as an exceptional communicator, presenter, and story-sharer, recognized for her ability to effectively elevate brand and cultivate robust internal and external stakeholder relationships.Debbie embraces the pillars of conscious capitalism, namely, elevating humanity through business. Her attainments are grounded in business marketing studies at Arizona State University and the University of Phoenix, including an emphasis on Corporate Procurement. She has supplemented extensive professional development with nonprofit leadership study at the ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation.Debbie understands that to be a leader, you must start by serving, and the community work that has held the most meaning is the serial-volunteerism she has learned and grown from. Starting from her time as President of the Most Holy Trinity Catholic Elementary School Advisory Board, where the Phoenix institution was honored to receive the National School Board of the Year Award from the National Catholic Educational Association, to more recently, Southwest Kids Cancer Foundation where she served as Vice Chair.As a proud Mississippi native, Debbie embraces the words of Ms. Eudora Welty, world-renowned author and photographer, “All serious daring starts from within.” Indeed, it does.