Women of Influence

Bell is proud of the flexibility and access WGU programs provide and the fact that it now has alumni living and working in all 92 Indiana counties.

Bravo joined the faculty at IU McKinney in 2004 and became dean this year.

Casto manages a global team of more than 130 that she created in 2017 when she was charged with merging the company’s marketing and communications functions.

As president of a talent management consultancy, Butcher’s career is built around mentoring others.

Campodonico-Barr wears many hats as president and CEO of Girls Inc., which she is committed to making the “premier girl-serving organization in Indianapolis.”

Carrasco is a policy and legal adviser to the governor and his staff and to a variety of other state agencies on a wide range of issues.

Christensen has been a critical player in the formation and adoption of the mentoring and sponsorship program for female attorneys at Dentons Bingham Greenebaum and was instrumental in forming the firm’s Diverse Scholars Program focused on law students.

Dodson is most proud of legislation passed in the early 2000s to help people diagnosed with autism and genetic metabolic diseases and to expand home and community services for The Arc’s clientele.

Elizabeth Elkas leads a team of professionals at Riley Children’s Foundation who raise philanthropic gifts in support of Riley Hospital for Children and its affiliated research.

As market manager for community-development banking, Patricia Gamble-Moore leads PNC’s lending and investing in local underserved markets, helping to improve quality of life in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.

Candy Gee is responsible for advancing the Roche Diagnostics’ focus on diverse talent acquisition and development, building external partnerships, developing sustainable diversity and inclusion strategies and processes, and employee education.

Kathy Martin Harrison’s company, Ed Martin Automotive Group, was the largest woman-owned business in Indianapolis last year, according to IBJ research. It owns nine car dealerships representing 12 manufacturers in Indianapolis, Carmel, Fishers, Noblesville and Anderson.

Pamela Jo Hynes is responsible for daily operations at Sharpen, which operates a cloud-based, customer service platform and made the 2020 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America.

Janney oversees the operations of IU Health, the state’s largest health care system, with 16 hospitals, and its second-largest private employer, with more than 34,000 team members and more than 2,500 physicians. And this year, she took on an unexpected but important role: incident commander of the COVID-19 emergency response team for IU Health.

Donna Kelsey, a 26-year veteran of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Naval Reserve, took over at American Senior Communities amid a crisis at the company. She reorganized the company, prioritizing the care of the residents and adding controls to guard against the fraud that had felled her predecessor.

Sarena Lin, who joined Elanco Animal Health three years ago, leads the company’s ongoing separation from former parent Eli Lilly and Co. and is simultaneously leading the integration into the company of Bayer Animal Health, which Elanco acquired this year for $7.6 billion.

Patricia A. Martin is head of BioCrossroads, the group that promotes Indiana’s life sciences industry, a pillar of the state’s economy,

Sandy McCarthy runs OneAmerica’s retirement services business, which serves more than 1 million people saving for retirement and is responsible for just more than $60 billion in assets.

Mel Raines leads the team responsible for managing Bankers Life Fieldhouse and the adjacent St. Vincent Center/Indiana Pacers Training Center.

At Faegre Drinker, Marilee J. Springer serves as outside general counsel to charitable entities that provide critical services to families and their local communities.