For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Graycen Bigger, executive director of the Northeast Arkansas Regional Intermodal Authority. Bigger was born and raised in northeast Arkansas. She grew up in Paragould and attended Arkansas State University, where she earned her undergraduate degrees in Art History and Photojournalism. Bigger worked in…
For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Natalie Black Blaney, owner of The Fix Salon, in Little Rock. Blaney grew up in Corning, where she was the oldest of three children in an entrepreneurial family. After high school, she moved to Jonesboro and attended Arkansas Academy of Hair Design where…
For this week’s segment of Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Ayoola Carleton, the Associate Director of Research in the Office of Community Health and Research at UAMS Northwest. Carleton grew up in Trinidad and Tobago, a small island nation with great food, great music, and an epic annual Carnival celebration. She…
For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Brooke Moore, founder of MyVirtual.Lawyer. Moore is a single mom to three children, Parker (15), Brodie (12) and Kinlee (9), and is a native of Batesville, although she considers North Little Rock to be home. Moore has an undergraduate degree in political science,…
For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Christy Ouei of Mule Kick. Ouei spent her early life in the Delta town of Lake Village. In 1996, she graduated with a degree in Agriculture Business at Southern Arkansas University. Ouei owned and operated a small service-station-turned-convenience-store in Taylor for 20 years,…
For this week’s segment of Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Lisa M. Smith, executive director of Community Health & Research at UAMS Northwest Regional Campus. Smith grew up in a small farm town in Colorado, where she says her upbringing instilled strong values such as resilience, respect, humility and work ethic. …
For this week’s segment of Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with LaTresha Woodruff, the public information officer for the Arkansas Division of Emergency Management (ADEM). Before going to the ADEM, Woodruff spent 10 years as the public information officer (PIO) with the Conway Police Department. “I was the department’s first…
For this week’s segment of Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Katherine Holmstrom, Senior Project Manager at the Arkansas Economic Development Commission. Holmstrom was born and raised in DeWitt, where her family has operated an agricultural aviation business for more than 70 years. “I started working at the business when I…
For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Donna Townsell. Townsell is a lifelong native of Conway. She graduated from Conway High School and UCA, where she was a member of the Delta Zeta sorority. Townsell has been an accomplished business woman for the last 28 years, 14 of which have…
AY wants to share the stories of women here in Arkansas on Wednesdays in hopes to inspire and lift up others. Come back each week to read a new one. As the executive director for the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas, Anna Beth Gorman has been a leading advocate for women and girls in the…
