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Angela Smith

With international and domestic experience working with marginalized, Spanish-speaking communities, Angela holds a Bachelor degree in Foreign Language, Spanish, from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh where she graduated summa cum laude.

She is fluent in Spanish, serves as an instructor for Language Learners in community and academic settings, has wide-ranging experience with diverse organizations in the human services and religious communities specifically leading efforts to serve and empower women, youth and minorities in the United States and abroad.

Her international experience includes mission services and research, academic studies and international communication consulting. Angela builds on her background as an accomplished journalist to assist organizations in identifying key community partnership opportunities, creating low cost, high impact promotional concepts and crafting strategic communication tools.

Robert Smith

Robert has grassroots, Congressional, corporate, faith based and public affairs credentials. Robert has provided executives, public officials, faith-based and other non-profit leaders community engagement and strategic advice, crafted communication plans and provided speech writing and presentation design services and coaching.

Robert has led communication system redesign, business growth, service innovation and community engagement efforts for health care systems; provided strategic planning advice to universities, faith organizations, corporate boards-of-directors; has experience leading improvement teams based upon Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and LEAN criteria; held public office; been recognized by diverse community organizations including the NAACP and Big Brothers Big Sisters and began his career on Capitol Hill where he specialized in policy areas including transportation, infrastructure and the environment.

Robert, a priest in the Episcopal Church, earned his Bachelor degree from Eastern Illinois University, holds a Masters degree in Business from Webster University, St. Louis and a Masters degree in Minstry from Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Wisconsin where he graduated cum laude. He continues to serve the Church and the world in daily work with the LaSalle County (Illinois) Episcopal Ministry and as an administrative leader of one of northern Illinois' largest, independent community hospitals.