(Fort Wayne, IN) August 24th, 2021 — Make-A-Wish® Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana (Make-A-Wish OKI) is pleased to announce that award-winning journalist Rick Farrant, the current Director of Communications for the workforce development organization Northeast Indiana Works, has been elected Chair of the Northeast Indiana Make-A-Wish Council. As Chair, he will also represent northeast Indiana on the Make-A-Wish Indiana Advisory Board.
“We’re excited to welcome Rick as Chair of the Northeast Indiana Make-A-Wish Council, and as a member of the advisory board, and are thrilled about the expertise he brings,” said Make-A-Wish OKI President & CEO Stephanie McCormick. “Through the partnerships he’s developed in the Fort Wayne area and his strong media and communications background, we’ll be able to increase our impact in the community and make more life-changing wishes come true for children with critical illnesses.”
“One of our mandates in this life, it seems to me, is to uplift the lives of others,” Rick said. “Make-A-Wish, which brings hope to young people facing extraordinarily difficult challenges, certainly offers that opportunity, and I am looking forward to helping the regional council become an unstoppable engine of goodwill.”
Rick is the former Director of Marketing at United Way of Allen County. As a writer and/or editor, he’s worked for Time magazine, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Denver Post, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette and Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly. He is the author of the new book Somewhere Bluebirds Fly, co-author of Crossing Over: One Woman’s Escape from Amish Life and an essayist (Home Again: Essays and Memoirs from Indiana). He studied theater at Montana State University and has acted in numerous community theater productions throughout the country. He has also taught writing and oratory to young people at the internationally recognized Unity Performing Arts Foundation for nearly two decades, and is a board member of Easterseals Arc of Northeast Indiana. He is a New York native currently living in Fort Wayne.
About Make-A-Wish® Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana
Make-A-Wish® OKI creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. Founded in 1983, we have granted more than 18,000 wishes! Make-A-Wish is more than wish granting, it’s a global movement of transforming lives through hope, and wishes need YOU! Due to COVID-19, more children than ever before are waiting for their wish to come true. To learn more about how you can donate, volunteer and share our mission, visit: wish.org/oki and follow us on social media @makeawishohkyin