Shirley L. Huestis, Executive Director

Ms. Huestis has the honor of being the first paid employee of the Foundation. As executive director, it is her responsibility to plan and publicize events, generate awareness, handle day-to-day details, find sponsors, enlist volunteers, and be the public face of the Foundation.

Shirley was born and raised in the greater Washington, D.C. area. She has a B.A. in English from Brigham Young University. Before moving to Utah in 2002, she lived in Arlington, Virginia, and worked in downtown Washington, D.C.  She had a ten-year career as an event planner in the International Affairs Office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For six years she was the event coordinator for the Lighting Ceremony at the Festival of Lights at the Washington, D.C. Temple Visitors’ Center. In that capacity she also helped to coordinate humanitarian aid to various countries throughout the world. Her main area of focus was Eastern Europe, especially Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. In 2002 she journeyed to Nigeria, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Egypt, Jordan, Romania, and Ukraine with LDS Charities and the Wheelchair Foundation.

Shirley keeps herself involved in various community and neighborhood events, having served in a number of leadership positions at church, and having once served on the Board of Directors for her neighborhood HOA. For eleven years she sang “The Sounds of Mt. Vernon,” a vocal quartet. After moving to Utah she created “The Whole and Half Notes,” a vocal quartet that sang at local retirement centers in the area. Shirley likes to laugh, sing, play piano, bake, remodel, crochet, write, and spoil and pamper children and her two cats.

Shirley thinks that her position here is the best one in the world, and promises to work tirelessly in service to Mr. Stirba and the Foundation.

Ms. Huestis can be reached at shirley@annestirbacancerfoundation.org, or at (801) 428-0684.