Board of Directors

Cameron is the Founder & CEO of AgencyOf which is a full-service marketing and development agency driven to create meaningful connections between brands and the people they serve. The Agency Of team is unreasonable – pursuing the unexpected when it comes to service, creative, strategy, and execution. Through this unreasonable work, they achieve extraordinary outcomes for their clients as the agency of possibility, results, tension, discomfort, and change. Above all titles, they are the AgencyOf what their clients need them to be.

While attending graduate school, Eileen began to work with a child with Autism using Applied Behavior Analysis. She has worked with children with autism and other developmental disabilities between the ages of 3 and 15 years old within the home, school, and community settings. Eileen worked for over five years in a Middle School as a Special Education Teacher in a center based classroom from children with autism, an ABA therapist in the home setting and an Autism Specialist. She works as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) in the Kansas City Metro area, working with children in the home, school, and community setting.

Abbie Connelly was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated from O’Hara High School, received her undergraduate degree in Nursing at the University of Missouri-Columbia and her master's degree in nursing at KU. Abbie has put her nursing career on hold to focus on giving toothers. She is active in various nonprofits and is a previous board member for Bright Future’s Fund and Noah’s Bandage Project. She is a wife to Bruce Garnerand a mother to Dillon Cooper who is currently living out his dream wrestlingat the University of Arkansas at Little Rock while studying business and finance.

Heather Bennett is the Vice President, Treasury for Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas.  In this role Heather has oversight of DFA’s shared service functions, including centralized Treasury and Accounts Receivable (cooperative-wide), and Corporate Accounts Payable. Heather has led treasury and shared service responsibilities for 21 years in various industries and has been with DFA in the dairy industry for the last 4 years. Heather graduated with a BA in International Business and Spanish from William Jewell College in Liberty, MO, and has an MBA with an emphasis in International Business from Park University in Parkville, MO. She obtained her Certified Treasury Professional certification in 2007. Heatherhas been married to her husband, Cameron, for 26 years and they have 2 kids in college.  She enjoys spending her time watching them do their various activities (cheerleading and theater), traveling(she is an avid Disney fan), attending sporting events, and seeing musicals.  

Dr. Chuang is a Partner within Mercer Total Health Management. Dr. Chuang’s focus at Mercer is to provide trusted and data-driven medical advisory services to Mercer clients regarding their employee health benefits.

Dr. Chuang’s experience spans the entire health care continuum, and he has a deep understanding of the complexities of the healthcare system and the perspectives of all the stakeholders, including medical providers, payors, employers and most importantly the consumer member. Improving the member experience and achieve a better health outcome through employee health benefit will require data and analytic insights to truly ensure programs and services optimally benefit the member.

Prior to joining Mercer, he held the Chief Medical Officer role at Elsevier Health, supporting the international health care systems through thought leadership and strategic initiatives for improving the care process and outcomes via digital transformation and clinical process improvement. Previously, Dr. Chuang has held clinical leadership roles at payor organizations such as Cigna and BCBS TN, led information technology innovation at health care information technology (HCIT) companies such as Cerner, Netsmart, McKesson, and provided clinical advisory services at Lockton Benefit Group.

Kerry brings over 10 years of experience in business leadership, corporate strategy and financial and operations management to Goebel Mitts Construction. With a career rooted in consulting and hospitality, Kerry drives a unique balance of analytics and service-orientation in the business.

Sara Hart Weir is a national nonprofit executive, disability activist and proud Kansan. Weir is the Executive Director of the Kansas Developmental Disabilities Council and serves as a Senior Advisor of the National Association of State Treasurer’s (NAST) ABLE
today initiative.

Weir is the former President & C.E.O. of the National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS), where during her tenure at NDSS, she led the passage of the landmark, bipartisan Stephen Beck Jr., Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act in 2014 (P.L.113-295). The legislation garnered the support of 85% of the entire US Congress. Weir also supported a majority of the enactment of ABLE state laws, assisted with over 40 state ABLE plan launches as well as led advocacy campaigns on two important provisions in the 2017 Tax Reform Package including the ABLE to Work Act and the ABLE Financial Planning Act.

Weir's life has been about leading differently, serving others and delivering results with the leadership philosophy of "if you're not at the table, you are on the menu". Sara deploys an “in the trenches” leadership style by engaging directly with constituents - in local communities, in the classroom, on the job site or around kitchen tables. Weir’s passion for ensuring people with disabilities have a voice at every table (where decisions are made) was inspired by Kasey, her late best friend of over twenty years who had Down syndrome.

Weir established the first-ever national employment program for the Down syndrome community, the #DSWORKS® Program, which partnered with companies, from Main Street to Wall Street, to create career opportunities for people with disabilities. Weir also co-founded The U.S. Future of Work For People with Disabilities Commission" - Tapping People with Disabilities who are Ready, Willing and ABLE to Work with fellow CEOs from Voya Financial and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and continues to be called upon by employers to help build successful employment and workforce development programs across the country.

Weir was also the primary runner up in for U.S. Congress in Kansas' Third Congressional district in 2020. Weir has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Political Leadership from Westminster College, a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College and a certificate of completion from the Emerging Leaders Program of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Kerry brings over 10 years of experience in business leadership, corporate strategy and financial and operations management to Goebel Mitts Construction. With a career rooted in consulting and hospitality, Kerry drives a unique balance of analytics and service-orientation in the business.