And she's the executive director of the Timmons Arts Foundation. Newly appointed to the Ronald McDonald House board of directors, Hatton-Ficklin volunteers for the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame and is active with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. I think the event side of it is one thing, but the volunteerism is the fulfillment. "This is one of those situations where I feel like I had an 'aha' moment. I love making sure that everything is right. "At that time, I realized that not only am I busy here in ministry, but I wanted to get my hands dirty events, because that's what I love doing," she says. Hatton-Ficklin went on to be events director at St. What God put me on this earth to do?' That's where I realized that my gift was hospitality-slash-events." Mark, was able to really dig in, dig my heels in and figure out, 'What. "That gave me an opportunity to be exposed to so many other people, and I'm a people person," Hatton Ficklin says. Hatton-Ficklin also spent years serving on the hospitality committee, as well as the wedding ministry, of Little Rock's St. We literally have to come up with some kind of plan of action.'" "You've always got to have that person to say, 'OK, yeah. But I learned how to volunteer as well as hold leadership roles. "Sometimes, we think that volunteering is just being a flunky, or doing whatever somebody tells you to do.
"Not only that, but I was also introduced to being able to have a leadership role as a volunteer," she says. The sales director for the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau and divorced mother of three started out volunteering at Pine Bluff's Barraque Street Missionary Baptist Church at an early age.Ī Junior League of Little Rock sustainer, Hatton-Ficklin says it was in the League that she learned about real, meaningful, community volunteerism. Hatton-Ficklin is used to giving her time for the common good. , 'Let me go back to where I know what I'm doing - at the front of house.' That's just the place I've always been comfortable with." And if you don't know anything else about me, I'm a woman of order. "You've got all of these people backstage and everybody's pulling at you. They handle media at the door, and that's why you always see me."Īt one time, Hatton-Ficklin thought she wanted to work the back of house instead, handling the needs of hair and makeup artists, event hosts and anyone else backstage. "That's the role that Theresa gave me," she says, explaining that the front-of-house person is not only the first person eventgoers see. Her smiling face is, in fact, usually the first to be seen.Īt the event - a showcase for the work of local/regional fashion designers - Hatton-Ficklin has served for years as a volunteer, working the "front of the house." Anyone who has ever attended Designers Choice Fashion Preview has seen Brenda Hatton-Ficklin.
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