Moneeka Settles

WLC President

Moneeka Settles is the Program Coordinator for the Innovation and Leadership degree at Southern Oregon University. She teaches both Intercultural Communication and Organizational Communication at S.O.U. She holds a Master’s Degree in Organizational Leadership from Columbia University. She has advocated for and taught many young women how to best understand how their voices are used in the classroom and the workplace.

Rhonda Klug

Past WLC Co-President

Rhonda Klug is the Head of Community Relations Manager of at Harry & David where she began her career 20 years ago. She serves as the company’s ambassador for the brand working directly with top-level executives for internal and external communications. Rhonda holds a double AA in Business/Corporate Communications and Accounting and Computer Science. She’s an Oregon native who believes in higher education and continues to further her career taking college courses and various workshops. Rhonda has served as the Co-President, Conference Chair, VP of Conference and Marketing Chair for the Women’s Leadership Conference (WLC).

Rhonda enjoys volunteering her time to SMART (Start Making A Reader Today) in the Rogue Valley, providing reading support and mentorship to children Pre-K thru third grade. She has a passion for philanthropy and works with the local non-profits to build upon meaningful relationships that impact the community.

Her dedication to her two sons and her husband, who also works at Harry & David, is a source of great pride and joy. She also adores her pets, enjoys outdoor activities and the beautiful Southern Oregon landscape. She has a love for food & wine and an overall enthusiastic lover of life. Cheers!

Stacey Derrig

Past WLC Co-President

Stacey Derrig currently works for Southern Oregon University (SOU) as Assistant Director, Adult Education. She assists adults who want to attend SOU to complete their degree. She is also involved with many community organizations to connect the university with the community. This includes the Women’s Leadership Conference, Downtown Medford Association among other committees and groups. Involved with WLC since 2013, Stacey has served on the logistics, and conference content committees and was the 2017 WLC Conference President.

As a very active person, she enjoys her cabin in the wilderness with her husband where they like to hike and enjoy the peaceful outdoors. Stacey has traveled all around the world to snow ski and scuba dive. She’s helicoptered to a hut in the Selkirk mountains in Canada with 16 other women, where they hiked and skied 5,000 vertical feet a day on glaciers.

Debbie Martin

Secretary

Debbie Martin is the controller for Adroit Construction Company, Incorporated located in Ashland, Oregon. She began her construction accounting career with a Medford plumbing company and joined Adroit Construction in 1990. She was hired for the accounts payable department, which was a new position. Her attention to detail, willingness to perform whatever tasks are asked of her and dedication to the job provided opportunities to expand her knowledge and take on additional duties.

She first attended the Women’s Leadership Conference (WLC) in 2013. It was an excellent opportunity to network with other women in the Valley, some performing the same job within other companies while also expanding her knowledge of what the Women’s Leadership Conference offered. She joined the WLC logistics team in 2014, 2015, and 2016 and is currently the board Secretary.

Outside of work she enjoys family time – any day, anywhere, family dinners at the dinner table, movie nights, motorcycling and sightseeing when time permits. Debbie is wife to a hard working husband of 34 years and a mom to two awesome daughters.

Deborah Jones

Treasurer and Finance Chair/Sponsorship Program

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    

Dana Keller

Logistics Chair

Dana Keller currently works as the Director of Food & Beverage for Neuman Hotel Group. She prides herself in exceptional customer service and attention to detail. Dana originally graduated from the California Culinary Academy with Honors to pursue her passion for creating fine food. Dana has been in the hospitality industry in Southern Oregon for over 25 years. Originally, a California native, Dana moved to the Rogue Valley in 1994 to follow her dreams, open a restaurant and start a family. Now she enjoys interacting with clients and helping them to realize their own vision. Whether it is an intimate wedding, holiday party, or large multi – day Conference, Dana loves the process of putting plans into action and turning ideas into reality.

Dana loves spending time with her husband and two children. She also enjoys nature, hiking, yoga, art, fine food and wine. Dana believes that life is about making it happen and enjoying the process.

Michelle Wilson

Micro-Events Chair

Michelle Wilson has worked in the Rogue Valley for the last 14 years and is currently the Wellness Program Manager at La Clinica. Her past experience includes serving as Development Manager for Foundation and Individual Giving at La Clinica, Development Director of the Children’s Advocacy Center, serving on the Oregon Nonprofit Leaders Conference planning committee, and providing grant writing and organizational development consulting to several nonprofit organizations through her business, Wellspring Consulting. .

Tiffany Mays

Marketing Chair

We are so excited to have Tiffany Mays join the Women’s Leadership Conference team, her eclectic and extensive background in marketing and business is a welcomed addition to the team!

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.

Cristina Sanz

Community Outreach Chair

Cristina is a Director of Development for Southern Oregon University Foundation.  She assists individuals and families who want to support student scholars and academic programs through charitable giving.

Prior to joining the SOU team, Cristina was the Southern Oregon Regional Director and Philanthropic Advisor for the Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) for twelve years.  Cristina’s previous career was that of a lawyer and court mediator.  She received her J.D. from the University of Oregon and her B.A. in Political Science with a specialty in Women’s Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Cristina is completing her third year on the WLC board. She is also involved with the Southern Oregon Estate Planning Council, the Rogue River Valley University Club and her PEO chapter.  She’s a past board member of the Oregon Women Lawyers and its foundation.

A resident of the Rouge Valley for the past 28 years, Cristina resides in Medford.