

Ken Hunt and Sunny Wight with Mindfulness First
Mindfulness First empowers students with practical skills and knowledge for lifelong mental health wellbeing.
They offer scientifically informed programs based in trauma-informed Mindful Awareness and Social-Emotional Learning which equitably support children, educators, and communities with tools to manage stress and navigate life’s challenges.
Sunny Wight created Mindfulness First after experiencing a stress-related breakdown and illnesses from which she used mindfulness to recover and completely transform her life.
Sunny is conventionally qualified with a Bachelor’s Degree, 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training and Mindful Schools Fundamentals/Curriculum Training: with a prior career in PR.
She is passionate about nurturing critical thinking in others and creating equitable and collaborative work environments; all by-products of mindful living. Sunny is married with 2 teenage children.
Ken Hunt has decades of leadership experience in financial services, with a successful history of building companies, relationships, and processes.
With a passion for supporting those that are creating meaningful change in the world, Ken is a mindful relationship facilitator and socially responsible executive leader.
Mindfulness has played a tremendous part in Ken’s journey of awareness and healing trauma stored away for many years.
A lifetime of seeking approval and needing to prove his value, embedded in early childhood development, took its toll, and eventually led him to mindfulness. Ken maintains that his challenges provided a massive gift in return: a passionate inner journey of healing, exploration, and discovery.
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Melissa Steimer started as Gabriel’s Angels Chief Executive Officer in June of 2021. She brings extensive experience in nonprofit executive leadership, fundraising and strategic planning to support organization growth.
Laura Wiggins is the Regional Clinical Director for the Menta Group, an organization that provides public/private day school placement for students with special needs throughout Arizona and Illinois. Laura has been in education for 24 years and has served as a classroom teacher, social worker, and administrator.
Brady Wald brings 21 years of education experience serving in several education roles in Arizona. He comes from a family of educators and found his passion for education and kids as he began to coach Little League Baseball, Junior Golf Camps, and Basketball Camps while in high school and college.

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