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Raymond Omar Long is the Founding Managing Partner and Principal Impact Strategist of Long Impact Group. Raymond leads the firm’s strategic direction and client engagements, guiding organizations through complex challenges with disciplined analysis and decisive execution. He sets the vision, shapes strategy, and ensures work translates into measurable progress—helping organizations achieve desired social outcomes more efficiently and sustainably.
Raymond holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Organizational Management from Philander Smith University and an MBA from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He’s been recognized as one of Arkansas’ 250 Most Influential Leaders, a Leader in Hope by AY Magazine, a Soirée Man on a Mission, an Arkansas Business 40 Under 40 Honoree, and a Global Impact Fellow by the Washington, D.C. based Memorial Foundation, Incorporated.
Raymond has served on and alongside boards across diverse human services disciplines, such as positive youth development and mentoring with Big Brothers Big Sisters, affordable housing with Habitat for Humanity, national service and education with City Year, municipality-led education initiatives through a mayoral appointment, and higher education and juvenile justice through gubernatorial appointments. Over the past decade, Raymond’s strategic leadership has helped organizations secure major funding, expand services, and build lasting partnerships. He is known for aligning vision with execution—creating systems that optimize performance, enhance collaboration, and produce long-term results. As a socially conscious leader shaped by many of the adverse lived experiences that mission-driven human services organizations aim to solve, Raymond is committed to helping organizations grow with intention, lead with purpose, and deliver meaningful change—for today and the future.
Jay Barth (he/him) is Founder of Jay Barth Strategies, LLC, a consulting firm focused on social change work, and M.E. and Ima Graves Peace Emeritus Professor of Politics at Hendrix College, where he taught for 26 years. Since his retirement from Hendrix, Barth has served as the inaugural Chief Education Officer for the City of Little Rock coordinating the City’s work to support education from birth through higher education in Little Rock, and as the Director of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum. From 2012 to 2019, Barth was a member of the Arkansas State Board of Education chairing that body for two years and presently serves as a member of the Central Arkansas Water Board of Commissioners and several other nonprofit boards.
Since 2001, Stephanie S. Streett has served as Executive Director of the Clinton Foundation. In her role, she oversees the operations of the Clinton Presidential Center. The Clinton Center offers diverse cultural and educational programing with a focus on civic engagement and leadership development.
Since opening in 2004, the Clinton Center has emerged as a vital community institution and national forum for promoting our highest democratic ideals. Stephanie also serves as Corporate Secretary for the Clinton Foundation Board of Directors.
She oversees the Presidential Leadership Scholars program on behalf of the Clinton Foundation. This first of its kind leadership development program produces a new generation of bold and principled leaders committed to working across differences to find solutions to our country and our world’s toughest challenges through a unique collaboration between the presidential centers of George W. Bush, William J. Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Prior to joining the Clinton Foundation, Stephanie served in the Clinton White House as Assistant to the President and Director of Scheduling. Previously, she worked on Capitol Hill as a staff member for the United States Senate Committee on the Budget. Stephanie has served on numerous community boards throughout her professional career. Currently, she is an advisory board member for the And Justice for All Initiative, Inc. and a member the International Women’s Forum, Arkansas. She is an advisory board member for City Year Little Rock and past Co-Chair. She currently serves on the University of Arkansas’s Fullbright College Board of Advocates and previously as President of the National Alumni Board of Directors. Stephanie received her degree in political science from the University of Arkansas. She and her husband Don Erbach reside in Arkansas and are the proud parents of three daughters.
Career Educator for the Little Rock School District 37 years.
Kirk Meyer Bradshaw was born in Hamburg, Arkansas. He lives in both Little Rock and New York City and has worked as a Financial Advisor for Edward Jones Investments for the last 30 years.
Kirk has a BA from the University of Louisiana, a MA in Philanthropy from NYU and holds a CIBE from the Columbia School of Business. Kirk has put his education and training to use tackling some of central Arkansas’s top philanthropic challenges. In 2011 the Arkansas chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals named Kirk “Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year.”
Jody is a pension plan actuary during his career. He has been an actuary and owner of Little Rock pension consulting firm Osborn, Carreiro & Associates for over 30 years. Jody is a proponent of public schools and has been a volunteer within the Little Rock School District for many years, ultimately serving on the school board for six years. He has been a supporter of City Year since his time on the school board and has been a City Year board member for about 10 years.
Corey is a partner of Forvis Mazars, LLP. He has more than 20 years of experience providing audit and management consulting services to FQHCs and other nonprofit organizations. He is a frequent speaker to industry associations on financial accounting and operational issues, grants management, Government Auditing Standards, and Single Audit regulations. Corey is a member of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and he has obtained the AICPA’s Not-for-Profit Certificate II.
Mica Strother is a seasoned relationship builder and fundraiser with more than three decades of experience working at the intersection of philanthropy, public service, and community leadership. Currently a member of the University of Arkansas’s National Philanthropy team, she works with alumni and friends of the university across the country to cultivate meaningful partnerships and philanthropic support for the institution. Over the course of her career, Strother has spent more than 21 years in fundraising and 25 years building strong constituent relationships, developing a reputation for connecting people with causes and institutions they care deeply about.
Before joining the University of Arkansas, Strother served as Senior Associate Director for the Razorback Foundation, where she led fundraising initiatives, cultivated major donors, and managed a $28 million campaign for a new baseball performance center while overseeing the organization’s Central Arkansas office. Her career also includes significant leadership roles in government and the private sector. She served for nearly a decade in the administration of Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe, including as Director of Appointments to State Boards and Commissions. She also served as Finance Director for two statewide campaigns for Governor Beebe, the state fundraiser for the Mark Pryor for Senate campaign and worked as a fundraising consultant advising other political campaigns and nonprofit organizations. Earlier in her career, she served as Director of Community Relations and Assistant Attorney General in the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office and later became the first female Vice President for Marketing and Business Development at Baldwin & Shell Construction Company. A graduate of Ouachita Baptist University and the William H. Bowen School of Law, Strother is an attorney admitted to practice in Arkansas. She has remained deeply engaged in civic and nonprofit leadership, serving on numerous boards and chairing fundraising initiatives for organizations addressing education, hunger, homelessness, and community development.
