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Focus: LGBTQ+

Join us for our bi-weekly member meetings centered on LGBTQ+ community and the evolving landscape of Executive Actions.

• Hear the latest on executive actions and their impact to your work
• Share your voice with AZIFG and key stakeholders to inform our efforts to support you
• Connect with colleagues to share insights, collaborate on solutions and support each other

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 | Chief Executive Officer/Ex-Oficio | one n ten

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. Managing significant growth for the company, he saw early on the need for continued staff development and instituted training to increase retention and help new employees to assume higher paying roles within the company.

Born and raised in Arizona, Nate graduated from Flagstaff High School and then pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Arizona State University’s WP Carey School of Business graduating magna cum laude in 2000. Over the last decade, he has committed himself to nonprofit service, serving on the Arizona steering committee of the Human Rights Campaign, the board of the Greater Phoenix Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, The Melonhead Foundation, and as co-chair of the board of directors for Equality Arizona. Currently he serves as the chair of the Human Relations Commission for the City of Phoenix, vice chair of Leading for Change, and on the LGBTQ Advisory to the Chancellor of Maricopa County Community Colleges.