Board Members
Position | Name | Employer |
Chairman: | Chelsea Boozer | Central Arkansas Water |
Vice-Chairman: | Colea Blann | Medtronic |
Immediate Past Chairman: | Jared Landrum | Bond.AI |
Communications Chair: | Ryan Stephens | Engel & Volkers |
Programming Co-Chairs: | Brandon Thompson
Diego Morales Ibarra |
Arkansas State Hospital
ASBDTC |
Land in the Rock Co-Chairs: | James Larakers
Tania Martinez |
Northwestern Mutual
ASBDTC |
PopUp in the Rock Co-Chair: | Josiah Johnson | Apptegy |
PopUp in the Rock Chair: | Nikki Crane | Polk, Stanley, Wilcox |
At Large Board Members: | Ross Owyoung | Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts |
Connor Martz | Encompass Financial Partners | |
Skye Martin | Army Corp of Engineers | |
Itzel Velazquez | Conexion de Negocios Latinos | |
Mike Harris | ||
Hector Balada
Scott Carroll Ciara Mills |
Arkansas Department of Health
Arkansas Business Arkansas Geological Survey |
Committees
Looking to get involved? Create Little Rock has 4 committees you can join. Learn about them below, and email the committee chair to get on the list. Committee meeting schedules are determined by each of the committee chairs.
PopUp in the Rock
Organizes and implements our annual PopUp in the Rock project in partnership with studioMAIN. To learn more about PopUp, visit our PopUp in the Rock page. Chaired by Josiah Johnson and Nikki Crane.
Programming
Responsible for selecting speakers for our Unplugged Speaker Series and other programming throughout the year, and for facilitating Serve the Rock and Crew at the Zoo. Chaired by Diego Morales and Brandon Thompson.
Land in the Rock
Organizes and implements our annual Land in the Rock summer program designed to entertain interns, law clerks and medical residents who are here for the summer and demonstrate to them what Little Rock has to offer. These events are also for young professionals who have recently moved to Little Rock. To see last summer’s schedule, visit our Land in the Rock page.
Chaired by James Larakers and Tania Martinez.
Be501
Be501.com was conceived by the Economic Development Committee of Create Little Rock’s Think Big Little Rock initiative. It’s designed to be a one-stop shop for things to do in the Little Rock Region. It’s in its beta phase while we build up a committee of volunteers to regularly contribute upcoming events and activities to the site. If you’d like to be an influencer, email createlittlerock@gmail.com.