Leadership Forward for a Better Arizona

Flinn-Brown Fellows Christopher Glover and Patrick Tighe discuss their roles as board members for Keys to Change, an organization dedicated to supporting individuals experiencing homelessness in Maricopa County, in this 16th episode of the Leadership Forward for a Better Arizona podcast by Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation. Glover, a 2016 Fellow and former Mesa City Counc...

Sarah Rose Webber is deputy director of Arizona State Parks and Trails, where the 2017 Flinn-Brown Fellow applies her passion for preserving Arizona's natural and cultural heritage. In this 15th episode of the Leadership Forward for a Better Arizona podcast by Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation, Webber discusses her leadership in expanding public access to outdoor spaces,...

Alfred Urbina describes himself as a husband, father, and grandfather from South Tucson. He's also a 2013 Flinn-Brown Fellow who started as a paperboy and busboy and went on to serve in the military, as a police officer, and later a prosecutor, Attorney General, and judge for Arizona tribal communities. In this 14th episode of the Leadership Forward for a Better Arizona podcast, hosted by Dawn Wal...

Flinn-Brown Fellow Lisa Schnebly Heidinger, a renowned author, journalist, and historian, shares her stories of Arizona and future plan to promote teachers with Leadership Forward for a Better Arizona host Dawn Wallace of the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation. Schnebly Heidinger, a 2012 Flinn-Brown Fellow and third generation Arizonan, has worked in print, radio and telev...

Flinn-Brown Fellow Thea Wilshire tells her story of how she unexpectedly moved from Southern California to Globe to work as a child psychologist on the San Carlos Apache Reservation three decades ago—and how Arizona became her home. In this 12th episode of the Leadership for a Better Arizona podcast, hosted by Dawn Wallace with the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation, the 2...

In this 11th episode of the Leadership for a Better Arizona podcast, hosted by Dawn Wallace with the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation, Flinn-Brown Fellow Tony Cani, founder of Slingshot Campaigns, and Daniel Scarpinato, president of Winged Victory Agency, discuss the issues that are top of mind for Arizona voters in the upcoming general election. The political strategist...

Flinn-Brown Fellow Elyse Guidas talks about her dedication to providing access to food for Arizonans during this 10th episode of the Leadership for a Better Arizona podcast, hosted by Dawn Wallace with the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation. Guidas, a 2019 Fellow and executive director of Activate Food Arizona, shares stories about growing up in Phoenix and her family's fo...

In our ninth episode of the Leadership for a Better Arizona podcast, Gina Roberts (Scottsdale, 2019) chronicles her public service journey from local government to leading the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission. She discusses the importance of voter education and how that led to an unprecedented partnership this year with the Arizona Media Association to stream candidate debates to every...

In this eighth episode of the Leadership Forward for a Better Arizona podcast, host Dawn Wallace of the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation is joined by East Valley emergency physician and 2016 Flinn-Brown Fellow Dr. Nick Vasquez. Vasquez, who serves as a Vitalyst Health Foundation trustee among other community service roles, talks about his experiences in the emergency dep...

In this seventh episode of the Leadership Forward for a Better Arizona podcast, host Dawn Wallace of the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation is joined by Arizona Corporation Commissioner and 2011 Flinn-Brown Fellow Lea Márquez Peterson. Peterson talks about her early career as an entrepreneur in Tucson and how that led to her leading the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce...

In this sixth episode of the Leadership Forward for a Better Arizona podcast, host Dawn Wallace of the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation is joined by 2023 Flinn-Brown Fellow Adam Goodman, a business and community leader and CEO of Goodmans. In this wide-ranging interview, Goodman discusses shaping his third-generation furniture business to impact and better the community,...

In this fifth episode of the Leadership Forward for a Better Arizona podcast, host Dawn Wallace of the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation is joined by two Flinn-Brown Fellows: Erin Carr-Jordan and Mignonne Hollis. Carr-Jordan, president and CEO of the Digital Equity Institute, and Hollis, executive director of the Arizona Regional Economic Development Foundation, discuss t...

On this episode of Leadership Forward for a Better Arizona, Dawn Wallace is joined by two executives from Helios Education Foundation: Paul Perrault, Ph. D., Senior Vice President, Community Impact and Learning, and Janice Palmer, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs and Public Policy. Perrault and Palmer discuss with Wallace research Helios has done on the economic benefits of postsecondary...

On this episode of Leadership Forward for a Better Arizona, Dawn Wallace is joined by two executives from Helios Education Foundation: Paul Perrault, Ph. D., Senior Vice President, Community Impact and Learning, and Janice Palmer, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs and Public Policy. Perrault and Palmer discuss with Wallace the research Helios has done on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...

Elvy Barton, Water and Forest Sustainability Manager at Salt River Project—and a 2013 Flinn-Brown Fellow—joins Dawn Wallace on Leadership Forward for a Better Arizona, a podcast from the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation. In a period of rapid economic growth and ongoing drought, Arizonans are increasingly concerned about catastrophic wildfires, water conservation, and wat...

It's the second episode of Leadership Forward for a Better Arizona, the podcast where leaders unite, ideas collide, and the future of the Grand Canyon State comes into focus, hosted by Dawn Wallace of the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership at the Flinn Foundation. Today, Wallace speaks with Teniqua Broughton, executive director of The State of Black Arizona and CEO of VerveSimone Consulting. A 20...

It's the inaugural episode of Leadership Forward for a Better Arizona, the podcast where leaders unite, ideas collide, and the future of the Grand Canyon State comes into focus.   For this first episode, host Dawn Wallace is joined by two influential figures in Arizona politics, former legislators and political insiders, Stan Barnes and Chad Campbell, who partnered for several years as the princip...