CANDIDATE BIOS

Rachel Clark McNeill, Allied ASID

Director of Membership

Education:
Harding University, Pre-Architecture, Bachelor of Science in Interior Design

Employment:
1. Interior Design Coordinator – Today’s Office Inc. 2017-2020
2. Lead Interior Designer – L&M Office Furniture 2020-current

ASID Activities:
1. Central AR Design Community – Chair 2018-2019 
2. Central AR Design Community – Programming Chair 2016-2018
3. Central AR Design Community – Social/Hospitality Chair 2020-president
4. Central AR Design Community – Social Chair 2015-2016
5. South Central Chapter – Student Liasion 2014-2015

Community/Civic Activities, Other Professional Organizations
1. CET Designer BETA team member for manufacturers – 2019-present
2. Little Rock Regional Chamber Member with L&M – 2020-present

Honors/Awards and Publications
1. CET Designer – Design Success Story 1^st Place Winneer 2021 & 2019
2. ASID SCC Best in Design Awards – Institutional Design – SILVER – 2021
3. ASID SCC Presidential Citations – Institutional Design – SILVER – 2019

If selected as a chapter leader, what key goals would you set, and how do you believe they would be achieved?
My biggest goal, coming from a chapter that services 3 states with 8 design communities, is to first help blend the communities within each state to communicate better. Then I hope to help our 3 states to do the same and form a better unity.

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Keeley Dorrell, Allied ASID

Director of At Large

Education:, 
University of Central Arkansas – BS

Employment:
ImageWorks Commercial Interiors
Today’s Office

ASID Activities:
1. Member of ASID for over twenty years
2. On leadership board for the Little Rock Design Community multiple years
3. Participated on various committees for ASID, Wine and Design, Product Runway

Community/Civic Activities, Other Professional Organizations
1. involved with Arkansas Food Bank
2. Involved with Arkansas AIA

If selected as a chapter leader, what key goals would you set, and how do you believe they would be achieved?
I would love to see our participation grown with in the Chapter across all locations, as well as set up / encourage mentoring within the chapter. I believe we should never stop learning and that exchange of knowledge is key to continued success of our industry. Offering meetings and events at different times and days so that everyone has an opportunity to participate could move us in the right direction.

 

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