Simone Stewart

WLC President

Simone Stewart is the Marketing and Box Office Manager of the Oregon Center for the Arts at Southern Oregon University.

A Marketing Technologist since 2009, Simone also worked in the adult beverage industry as a Wine Buyer and in wine/beer sales for an international importer/distributor from 2006-2009. Simone was a small business owner of an antiques and consignment store in Ashland, OR from 1999-2002; and was a Computer Repair Technician at the Geek Squad and Technology Operations Manager of a computer tech company prior to being hired in her ‘dream career’ of Arts Marketing.

Simone has served as a City of Medford Arts Commissioner since 2014; and served as the Chair of the Arts Commission from 2016-2019. She is the current Board Secretary for the Talent, Oregon Chamber of Commerce DBA the Talent Business Alliance. She has held a position on the board of directors of Film Southern Oregon since 2015, and has served as a Medford/Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Ambassador since 1996; and served as the Ambassadors Committee Chair from 1998-2000. Simone was the Chair of the Ashland Chamber Ambassadors from 200-2002. Simone serves as a Union Steward for the SEIU Local 503 chapter at SOU. She is the current Southern Oregon University Representative on the board of Oregon Women in Higher Education.

Simone holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from the University of California at Berkeley and is an MBA candidate at SOU.

In addition to her career as an Arts Marketer and currently serving on several non-profit boards and city commissions, Simone is a professional theatre/television/film Actor with over 70 roles performed; and more performances to come.

Moneeka Settles

Past WLC President

Bio coming soon.

Deborah Jones

Finance Chair

Deborah Jones is Fiscal Coordinator-2 for Business Services Department at Southern Oregon University.   Her job role focus is to support the mission of all campus divisions/departments through financial reporting, verifying data integrity, and re-aligning process flows on all levels for finance and administration.  She provides fiscal administrative support to the Controller for the university’s comprehensive financial programs and oversight of special projects, facilitating finance system module conversions, training others, and web-site editing.    As a community volunteer, Debbie has chaired or participated on many committees over the years.  Her education focus is Business Administration and she has B.S. in Innovation and Leadership (SOU-2016), which focuses on organizational structure, business and administrative operations, digital media, leadership and all facets of communication.    

Karen Allen

Logistics Chair

Bio coming soon.

Kelly Taylor

Secretary

Bio coming soon.

Tiffany Mays

Marketing Chair

Tiffany is the Founder and CEO of DISR Group a Marketing & Development Firm located here in the Rogue Valley, as well as, the Program Coordinator for Southern Oregon Universities’ Professional Development Department.

Over the last 20 years, Tiffany has owned two small businesses and worked in marketing, finance, hospitality, education and healthcare. In that time, Tiffany has held executive leadership positions in the areas of; business development, event creation/management, strategic planning, program design, service excellence training, culture creation, employee engagement, staff and leadership development.

Tiffany is passionate about driving initiatives that create sustainable results benefiting everyone in an organization. She enjoys building relationships, sharing ideas, empowering potential and leading by example — while always remaining flexible and maintaining a sense of humor under pressure.

Heather Stafford

Content Chair

Bio coming soon.

Peggy Blair

Micro-Events Chair

Peggy Blair leads the dynamic Executive Services Team at Rogue. In her role as Senior Executive Services Assistant, she directly supports both the President/CEO and Chief Operating Officer/EVP, while leading a team that supports the entire leadership team and board of directors.

Peggy has over 30 years of experience in the financial industry and customer/client service. Her background includes marketing, community outreach and financial education, strategic planning and administration.

Passionate about personal/professional development and empowerment, she has mentored on both a formal and informal level. She was instrumental in the development and evolution of Rogue Credit Union’s long-established Student Branch Program.

Peggy has volunteered her time on the Women’s Leadership Conference Micro-Events Committee for the past 2 years before stepping into serve as Chair.

On her personal time, you will find Peggy running/hiking the trails (she can claim the title of an ultra-runner, having completed her first 50k in 2019), is a borderline gourmand, and has a personal tradition of tackling one, new and scary thing each year, for the past 17 years.

Stephanie La Pierre

Community Development

Stephanie La Pierre is an Associate Program Officer at Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) and works with nonprofit organizations, as well as their donors and board members, to support, strengthen and sustain their missions through OCF’s Endowment Partners Program.

Stephanie has a background in development, account management, publishing and library services, is a Southern Oregon University alumna and has won two awards for poetry. She has served the Rogue Valley community by volunteering for SMART (Start Making a Reader Today) and Ashland Emergency Food Bank as well as serving on the marketing committee for the Women’s Leadership Conference of Southern Oregon before joining the board in 2020.

In her free time, Stephanie enjoys reading, baking, learning French, organizing and/or making an Excel spreadsheet for everything and exploring the great outdoors with her husband and two dogs.