Leadership

Mickie Smith is a collaborative executive with more than 30 years of leadership experience spanning public media, corporate marketing, and nonprofit governance. Throughout her career, she has built partnerships, led high-performing teams, managed multimillion-dollar budgets, and helped organizations navigate change while remaining focused on mission, integrity, and community impact.

Mickie serves as Chief Executive Officer of honestly, where she works alongside community partners to advance evidence-based strategies that improve outcomes for young people across central Oklahoma. Prior to becoming CEO, she served as Chair of honestly’s Board of Directors, providing strategic leadership and helping guide the organization’s mission.

An active civic leader, Mickie also serves as Board Chair of the Urban League of Greater Oklahoma City, Secretary of the Oklahoma Innocence Project Advisory Board, and sits on the advisory boards of KGOU and KOSU. Her leadership is rooted in the belief that lasting change happens when organizations work together, build trust, and remain willing to adapt as communities’ needs evolve.

A lifelong Oklahoman, Mickie earned her bachelor’s degree in Organizational Leadership from the University of Central Oklahoma, where she focused her studies on leadership, collective impact, and systems change. She and her husband live in Oklahoma City and are proud parents of two adult children. Her career reflects a commitment to lifelong learning, agile leadership, and creating opportunities for people and organizations to thrive.

Tosha has an extensive history working in the nonprofit sector and has dedicated her career to working with vulnerable and at-risk populations. A graduate of Oklahoma State University, her experiences include education, mental health, domestic violence, and crisis response.

Tosha has a passion for leadership development, teaching, equity/inclusion, and building relationships. She is committed to breaking down barriers and making positive change in our community.

Tosha’s favorite modes of self-care include reading, art, puzzles, and bubble baths.

Amy’s dedication to sexual health promotion began as a teenager, when she grew up without receiving sex ed and saw the consequences of withholding sexual health information. Consequently, Amy went on to get her Bachelor of Arts in Human Relations at the University of Oklahoma, with a focus on social justice and nonprofit management, and served as a peer sexual health educator and Planned Parenthood volunteer. Amy also holds a Master of Public Health from George Washington University, where she focused on reproductive health, historic and present racialized reproductive violence, and data equity.

Prior to her current role with honestly, Amy served as Freshmen Diversity Experience coordinator at the University of Oklahoma, program assistant for honestly, communications fellow at SIECUS, and has done social media and public health consulting.

For self-care, Amy enjoys knitting, hiking, and unwinding with a bourbon cocktail made by her husband, Jake.

Lilly got her start in Adolescent Sexual Health as a peer educator at Del City High School. She spent several years working with one of our partner organizations as a sexual health educator and marketing coordinator, reaching young Oklahomans with empowering information about relationships and decision-making.

She’s a Bloomberg Fellow with the Bloomberg American Health Initiative and recently graduated with her Master’s in Public Health from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. While there, she focused on risks to adolescent health, health communication, and adolescent health advocacy.

As a textbook extrovert, Lilly enjoys music festivals and social gatherings where she never fails to make a new friend.

Mataia grew up in rural Oklahoma and learned first-hand about the impact of not having access to inclusive and accurate sexual health education. She developed a passion for community safety and went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Human Relations with a focus on social justice and nonprofit management from the University of Oklahoma in 2020. During this time, she participated in the McNair Scholars Program and researched Black maternal death rates and their connection to digital community spaces.

Since graduating, Mataia has gained experience working in 2SLGBTQ+ advocacy, community organizing, program management, HIV decriminalization, and digital communications. She was also an Innovation Cohort member for the SPARK Innovation OKC project. Mataia thrives in environments where she can learn from the people working on the ground and imagine new ways to care for community members, bringing her to honestly.

Outside of work, you can find Mataia reading for book club, volunteering with harm reduction groups, playing video games, or cuddling her cats Boba and Panini.