Focus: LGBTQ+
Join us for our bi-weekly member meetings centered on LGBTQ+ community and the evolving landscape of Executive Actions.
Angela Hughey | Co-founder and President | ONE Community & ONE Community Foundation
Angela Hughey exemplifies leadership through her work within the LGBTQ+ community and the broader business and political communities in Arizona. Hughey's leadership and diligent efforts have direct statewide economic development impact. She co-founded ONE Community in 2008 with the goal of engaging socially responsible businesses, organizations and individuals who support and promote diversity, inclusion, equity and equality for all Arizonans.
In 2013 Angela 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 public accommodations for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBTQ+) individuals and their allies. More than 3,700 businesses and 25,000 Arizonans have taken the UNITY Pledge; the largest equality pledge in the nation.
Angela has won multiple awards for her work on inclusion and awareness including the Human Rights Campaign Individual Equality Award, Echo Magazine’s Woman of the Year and the Anti-Defamation League’s Al Brooks Community Leadership Award. Angela is a 2021 Phoenix Business Journal, Most Admired Leader.
In January of 2022, Angela was named a Communities Celebrating Diversity champion. She was featured in the Arizona Republic’s Faces of Arizona series in March of 2022, as well as featured in AZ Big Media’s 18 of Arizona’s most influential minority business leaders. Angela and ONE Community received the Trailblazer Award from Arizona Lodging and Tourism in September of 2022. Angela is a 2023 Southwest Center Luminary honoree as well as one of Phoenix Magazine’s Great 48. Angela is the 2023 Valley Leadership Woman of the Year.
Nate Rhoton serves as the CEO for one-n-ten, an LGBTQ non-profit delivering youth services in Arizona. Joining the team in 2015, he served as the Director of Development followed by Director of Finance & Operations, before assuming his current role in January of 2018.
Following a career of fifteen years in corporate management and finance, Rhoton chose to serve the community with his nonprofit fundraising and development expertise. Serving for twelve years as the operations director and then CFO of a local construction company, he worked to expand corporate community involvement and non-discrimination protections to LGBTQ employees.
Born and raised in Arizona, Nate graduated from Flagstaff High School and then earned his degree in finance & economics from ASU’s WP Carey School of Business graduating magna cum laude in 2000. Over the last 25 years, he has committed himself to nonprofit service, winning multiple leadership awards, and serving on many boards over the years. He currently serves on the national board of CenterLink, vice chair of Leading for Change, the City of Phoenix Human Relations Commission, and, most recently, the board of Your Paths. Additionally, he is an alumnus of Flinn-Brown, Valley Leadership and Leading for Change.
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