For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Jennifer L. Carson. Carson was born in Illinois, went to school in South Carolina and Louisiana, before moving to Little Rock where she finished her degree in sociology and anthropology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 1996. Shortly after,…
For this week’s pre-election edition of Hometown Heroes, AY About You sits down with Dr. April Chatham-Carpenter with Braver Angels. Chatham-Carpenter is a professor and department chair of applied communications at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and is an organizer with Braver Angels. She considers both Arkansas and Oklahoma to be her…
By Dwain Hebda Like many people involved with Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas, Donna Clark has never had to utilize the services the organization provides. She’s never sat in a NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) hospital room and watched her gravely ill infant hooked up to a babbling gallery of machines; never had…
For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Jessica Johnston-Myers, the director of sales development at Apptegy. Johnston-Myers was born in Fayetteville, grew up in Little Rock and graduated from Hendrix with a theater-focused liberal arts degree. She applies her theater skills to various sales and operations roles, often coaching high-performing…
Mark Camp and Otto the Otter on KARK. For this week’s Hometown Heroes, AY About You sits down with Mark Camp, Executive Director of Keep Arkansas Beautiful. Camp first took over as the director of the Keep Arkansas Beautiful state agency in 2016. He had been in the municipal finance world his whole…
Arkansans sometimes are smart Northern originals. However, when the Southern hospitality rubs off on them, they decide to hang around and call Arkansas home. Ted Clouser, CEO of PCA Technology Solutions, calls Arkansas home. I have known Ted for more than 20 years. He brings a wide range of ingredients to my Sunday Supper…
AY Media Group staff writer Katie Zakrzewski has received the Edward L. Whitbeck Memorial Award, which goes to the top (valedictorian) graduating Senior at UA Little Rock. Katie is passionate about making change in her community, and lending a hand wherever one is needed. A North Little Rock native, Zakrzewski decided to attend UA…
Happy Friday! For this week’s Made in Arkansas, AY About You is featuring AR-T’s, a Little Rock-based screen printer that specializes in Arkansas-inspired t-shirts. Justin Sharp thought about opening a t-shirt business for years before starting AR-T’s in February 2016. “I played around with the idea in college with a friend,” says Sharp.…
For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Justina Parker, founder of the blog We Belong. Parker is from Little Rock and currently resides in Maumelle. She holds a Bachelor’s of Professional Studies with a focus in Interdisciplinary Studies from Arkansas Tech University. “After landing a temp job at Heifer…
For today’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Dr. Rebecca Glazier. Glazier joined the political science faculty at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2009 and is now an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs. Glazier was born in Missouri and grew up in Utah. She earned her…
