Angela HugheyCo-founder and President, ONE Community

Angela Hughey is the co-founder and President of ONE Community. Founded in 2008, ONE Community is a member-based coalition of socially responsible businesses, organizations and individuals who support diversity, inclusion 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 (LGBT) individuals and their allies. Over 2,000 businesses and organizations and more than 10,000 Arizonans have taken the UNITY Pledge; the largest equality pledge in the nation. Ms. Hughey is also credited with the Multicultural Conversation with the Candidates, Spotlight on Success Local Heroes Awards and The State of LGBTQ Arizona collaborative report, which was released in the fourth quarter of 2014.

Ms. Hughey is a 2012 graduate of Valley leadership. She has won awards for her work as an independent filmmaker and was honored with the YWCA 2013 Tribute to Leadership Award for Public Service. Ms. Hughey has received the HRC Individual Equality Award and was inducted into Echo Magazine’s Hall of Fame. Angela is a 2012 Business Journal Diversity Champion and sits on the President’s Advisory Council for Phoenix College. ONE Community is the recipient of the 2012 Phoenix Pride Howard and Patricia Fleischmann Community Spirit Award. Ms. Hughey is a 2013 inductee into the Phoenix College Alumni Hall of Fame. Angela and ONE Community led the OPEN for BUSINESS to Everyone coalition in the first quarter of 2014 in response to SB1062, which led to an educational campaign of the same name, which focuses on diversity, inclusion and equality for all Arizonans to ensure the economic sustainability of the state. Echo Magazine named Angela their 2014 Woman of the Year. Angela is the 2016 recipient of the Anti-Defamation League's Al Brook's Community Leadership Award.

Angela is the Chair of Valley Leadership’s Leadership Advance Program for high potential leaders.