Rev. Stephen Copley
Rev. Copley is Chair of the Arkansas Energy Network. Steve has a M.Div. from Southern Methodist University and a J.D. from the University of Arkansas-Little Rock School of Law. He is an ordained clergy in the United Methodist Church. He is currently the Executive Director of the Arkansas Interfaith Conference and Arkansas Justice for Our Neighbors. He also holds a position on the board of directors of the National Fuel Funds Network.
Rose Adams
Rose Adams is Executive Director of the Arkansas Community Action Agencies Association (ACAAA), which provides training, technical assistance, advocacy, and communications support to the state’s 16 community action agencies. She also served on the inaugural faculty of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, team-teaching a course on analysis for decision-making and strategic planning. Her current and past board appointments include the Morris Foundation, Arkansas Hunger Coalition, Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund (president), University of Arkansas at Little Rock Alumni Association, and Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance. She served on the Arkansas Legislative Task Force on Poverty and Promoting Economic Opportunity and is currently appointed to the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission. She has a background in education, strategic planning, grant writing and management.
Dominik Mjartan
Dominik Mjartan is Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Communications for Southern Bancorp . He manages Southern’s corporate social responsibility efforts, oversees Southern’s public policy initiatives and external relations and directs the corporate functions of social metric design and reporting, research, fundraising, marketing and corporate communications.
Prior to joining Southern Bancorp, he served as Program Director of Perks.com, a high-tech company providing global services to several Fortune 500 companies. He graduated Summa Cum Laude and as a Donaghey Scholar with a B.S. in management from UALR and earned an MBA at the University of Ulster (UK). His current and past board appointments include Board Chair of EAST initiative, Inc. and is president of the Cliffs Property Owners Association.
Dom emigrated to the US at age 16, coming from the former Czechoslovakia. He arrived with hopes of earning the ”American Dream”, a dream he now works to make attainable to disadvantaged people throughout the rural South.
Tom Navin
Tom Navis is the Director of Social Action and Prison Ministry for Catholic Charities of Arkansas, a position he has held since 2004. Prior to coming to Arkansas, he held social ministry positions with the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. He is a graduate of Indiana University, Blomington, IN with a degree in Marketing. He spent several years working with various advertising agencies before getting into ministry. He is a registered lobbyist for the Catholic Diocese of Little Rock and the Secretary/Treasurer of the Roundtable for Diocesean Social Action Directors. His current and past board appointment include Our House; Interfaith Workers Justice Coalition; Arkansas United Community Coalition; Arkansas Voices, and Arkansas Interfaith Power and Light.
Debbie Wolfe Shea
Debbie graduated from Gillett High School (Gillette, AR) and Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, VA. She currently resides in Dumas, AR where she is an active community volunteer. Her current and past board appointments include the Arkansas Arts Council Advisory Board, Old State House Museum Associates Board, Arkansas Advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Mary Baldwin College Alumnae Board, Main Street Dumas, and the Delta Area Community Foundation. She is also active in the First Methodist Church of Dumas where she serves on the Finance Committee and Alter Guild.