Mica Strother and Greg Hale are Arkansas to the core, and the Little Rock husband-and-wife team have the credentials to prove it. Strother, born in Little Rock and raised in Mountain Home, is a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University and UA Little Rock’s Bowen School of Law. She manages the Little Rock office of the Razorback Foundation as senior director of development. Hale, meanwhile, is the product of a cattle-farming family from DeQueen. He was appointed to the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission in 2009. A communications veteran who has worked on national campaigns, Hale is a founding partner in the D.C.-based consulting firm, Markham.
Prior to joining the Razorback Foundation, Strother was one of the first female construction executives in Central Arkansas at Baldwin & Shell. She’s also worked in politics, serving in the administrations of two Arkansas governors as well as on the staffs of two congressmen and one U.S. senator. Her philanthropic work is extensive and includes serving on the boards of the Arkansas Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty, the Second Serving Foundation, Reach Out and Read Arkansas, Youth Home and First Tee of Arkansas, among other community leadership roles. She is the recipient of Ouachita’s Outstanding Alumni Award and was inducted into the Mountain Home Education Foundation Hall of Honor.
In addition to his campaign work, which included the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election bid, Hale served as executive producer of the inaugural Heartland Summit from the Walton Family Foundation in 2018, for which he helped bring economic development leaders to Bentonville to brainstorm ways to strengthen America’s “heartland.” In 2019, he produced the Fashion Tech Forum in New York, which brought in fashion and tech leaders to work on creating sustainable brands for the future.
Hale and Strother teamed up in 2021 to chair the Hunger Relief Alliance’s Serving Up Solutions fundraiser. In 2019, the duo chaired Jericho Way Sleep Out in the Rock Fundraiser for Little Rock’s only homeless day shelter. The couple also chaired the Arkansas Food Bank’s Empty Bowls fundraising event in 2018.
Prior to joining the Razorback Foundation, Strother was one of the first female construction executives.
