Angela Hughey: A communicator keeping Arizona and the U.S. awake to the benefits of equality.

Angela Hughey and Sheri Owens co-founded ONE Community in the fall of 2008.

Angela Hughey and Sheri Owens co-founded ONE Community in the fall of 2008. The concept of an interactive web and events community came from over a year of research that they compiled on the LGBT community which included the diversity within the community, buying power and how to market to the community. 

Angela Hughey is Co-Founder and President of ONE Community — a member-based coalition of businesses and organizations that supports diversity, inclusion, and equality. In 2012, ONE Community launched “Your Vote is Your Voice” a collaborative multi-organization push for civic engagement and announced a multicultural business advisory board. In 2013, Angela Hughey and the ONE Community team launched The UNITY Pledge, a concerted effort by Arizona businesses and individuals to advance workplace equality and equal treatment in housing and hospitality for the LGBT community. Today, the Unity Pledge is the largest equality pledge in the nation.

“It is all of our responsibilities to mentor everyone…to help one another dream. Being a business owner is not for the weak of heart. We have to support one another entrepreneurial.”

On May 17, she will receive the Positively Powerful Woman Award for Equality Leadership. She says, “We shouldn’t see “opposition” when it comes to LGBT equality issues, we should see “opportunity”.  Not just in Arizona, but all across the country. (Source)” Angela is a dynamic leader, speaker, connector, and recipient of many awards; some of which she received as an independent filmmaker.  She is a passionate storyteller who tells the stories of local heroes.She says, “The good thing is we are awake. And…we have more work to do.” You can bet she and her One Community team will do all that they can to have these next years be breakthrough years to keep people awake to the benefits of this for Arizona and beyond.