In honor of Veterans Day, USAA, joins 'It Happens at STN' to discuss Veteran suicide prevention. The suicide rate for Veterans is 57% higher than the national average. Joining the show to examine the startling statistics and explore solutions are Patrick Fitzhugh, Regional Site Director for USAA,...

In Episode 3 of Community Collaborative, Robin Reed, CEO of the Black Chamber of Arizona, welcomes Carla Vargas Jasa, President and CEO of Valley of the Sun United Way, and Emma Garcia, Chief Community Development and Engagement Officer at Valley of the Sun United Way, the group breaks down the n...

Valley of the Sun United Way CEO, Carla Vargas Jasa, and Emma Garcia, Chief Community Development and Engagement Officer at Valley of The Sun United Way, join Robin Reed, CEO of the Black Chamber of Arizona, to discuss the latest data from their Mighty Change 2026 scorecard.

In Episode 10 of the Community Collaborative, Monica Villalobos, President and CEO of the Hispanic Chamber, and Robin Reed, President and CEO of the Black Chamber of Arizona, engage in a conversation with Chris Lynne, President of the University of Phoenix, and Lucy Fernandez, Program Manager at ...

Meet Jose Antonio Galvan for over 20 years he has owned and operated Jose’s Sheet Metal with his family.

They started their business in a small warehouse on the West side of Phoenix. In 2016, Jose and his family approached Arizona Financial Credit Union with the vision of buying property for th...

Dr. Battino Batts, Dean of Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, discusses how the journalism school is placing an emphasis on building future leaders of the journalism world.

Dean Batts is joined by Vanessa Ruiz, Vice President of Educational ...

Gov. Katie Hobbs joins Episode 9 of Community Collaborative to discuss why she is making diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) a top priority for her team and why it was important to create the first-ever DEI position in the governor’s office.

When Gov. Hobbs was sworn in earlier this year she ...

Five years ago PetSmart launched its “Week of Belonging” to build a more inclusive company culture.

Joanne Dwyer, Vice President of Social Responsibility, at PetSmart, and Mark Dompier, The Head of Belonging Manager, join hosts, Robin Reed, CEO of The Black Chamber of Arizona, and Monica Villal...

Community Collaborative launched as a virtual show during the height of the pandemic. Three years later, hundreds of business and community leaders have been on the show to talk about DEI. Monica Villalobos, President of the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and Robin Reed, CEO of the Black C...

Arizona Financial Credit Union joins episode 6 of Community Collaborative to talk about paths to capital for small businesses looking to get off the ground or take the next step in their growth.

Leticia Long is back on the show to give viewers an inside look at her health and beauty store inside the Chandler Fashion Center.
She shares with the panel how Shawn Pearson and the rest of the team at Zion Institute helped her get the capital she needed to get her business off the ground and i...

Jared Shintaku and Randall Gaston from Arizona Financial Credit Union join Arizona Black Chamber CEO Robin Reed and Hispanic Chamber of Arizona CEO Monica Villalobos to talk about when and how to look for capital and why it is important to work locally.

Shawn Pearson, founder of Zion Institute talks to STN about their mission to build a more inclusive economy in Phoenix. She is joined by one of Zion’s success stories Leticia Long who opened her own retail store in the Chandler mall called Purelistic Health & Beauty with the help of Pearson and Z...

Monica Villalobos shares her experience being part of Governor Hobbs’ transition team and founder of Zion Institute Shawn Pearson joins the show to talk about how they are working to create a more inclusive and diverse economy.

Carla Vargas Jasa, President and CEO of Valley of the Sun United Way, joins the show, along with Robin Reed, CEO of Arizona Black Chamber. They discuss the release of Valley of the Sun United Way’s Mighty Change 2026 Scorecard. The score card is the organization's five-year community plan that ad...

In observance of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, Lyn-Graves and Reed were joined on stage by Mike Hess from the Blind Institute of Technology and Kenneth Mims from the Neurodiversity Education & Research Center for a discussion about how disabled and differently-abled people must ...

During the September episode of It Happens at STN, leadership from the recently rebranded Arizona Financial Credit Union (formerly known as Arizona Federal Credit Union) joined an action panel to discuss how to grow employees into leadership positions with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and how ...

Black Chamber of Arizona President Robin S. Reed and Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce CEO Monica Villalobos, joined on stage to chat about the momentum they are building with the Community Collaborative series and how they hope to increase involvement and impact with the new show. Specificall...

In this episode we will examine the importance and business case for “Supplier Diversity.” We’ll be joined in studio by Courtney Moore, Director of D, E, I and Supplier Diversity from Southwest Gas and Conrad Smith CEO of Graphite Systems. We’ll also go inside “360 in the Kitchen” with Chef Ste...

In the last couple of years, we have watched the pandemic and social unrest take a toll on our community’s mental health. However, we’ve also seen a new willingness to speak up and out about mental wellness. Now, there is a new organization in the Valley taking a fresh approach to the mission o...

In this episode of The Community Collaborative, leaders from the Black Chamber, Hispanic Chamber, GPEC, Valley of the Sun United Way and Ability 360 come together to detail the collaborations required to create a more inclusive economy and elevate future leaders.

We have worked to become a rallying point for community and business leaders in the space of diversity, equity and inclusion. But we also want to construct a way to measure the mission by building the first-of-its-kind “Inclusion Index.” How can Arizona set the bar in these efforts? We peel ba...

For this episode of the Community Collaborative, we’ll focus on workforce development and how to create job advancement for our youth. We’ll also be joined live in studio by Shawn Pearson, founder and CEO of the Zion Institute, for a discussion on the correlation between strengthening pathways a...