Meet The Team
Larry Twitty
A Des Moines Native, Larry Twitty, Jr. has worked full-time in the staffing and recruiting industry since 2012; partnering alongside various companies to help form strategic hiring initiatives while analyzing current job market trends. In addition to recruiting top talent, Twitty, Jr. is also the founder of LatitudeDM, LLC, a company he started to help non-profit organizations tell their stories through social media and digital marketing.
In his spare time, Larry enjoys giving back to his community, and has volunteered with organizations like Habitat for Humanity, Bowl For Kids Sake, CI-SHRM, NAACP, Iowa C.O.R.E., Dress for Success, and Evelyn K. Davis Center For Working Families. Larry Twitty, Jr., his wife Ariana, and children, have been residents of Johnston, IA since 2016.
Robert Thole
Bridget Edwards
Robert Thole is an attorney at Bradshaw, Fowler, Proctor & Fairgrave, P.C. in Des Moines. His passion for social welfare began in high school when he went on a service trip to a mountainous village in Haiti. There, the people taught him the change that a helping hand and kindness can bring. Robert has since returned to Haiti numerous times to visit friends he made on his first trip twenty years ago.
Robert is grateful for the opportunity to work with the Spark Foundation and its leadership team. He intends to utilize his legal experience to promote the Foundation’s initiative to promote giving back to this great community. But he knows from his work in Haiti that it is not only those that the Spark Foundation assists that will reap the benefits. It is those that give that oftentimes are the greatest benefactors of charity.
Bridget Edwards lives in Des Moines, Iowa with her wife and three-year old daughter. Bridget works as a senior communications consultant for Wells Fargo. As a long-time lover of literature, she was an English and Communication Studies double major at the University of Iowa. Since starting her own daughter’s library, she recognized Spark’s mission aligns with her own passion for reading and finding diverse books to share with her daughter. Bridget is eager to give back to her community and support building libraries for kids who yearn to see characters who look and live like them.
Kayela Hadaway
Kayela Hadaway is an Operational Risk Manager with Wells Fargo. Her passion for volunteerism started in high school when she became involved in the Community Youth Leadership Program. From there she has spent her time volunteering for numerous organizations including Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Iowa, Special Olympics Iowa, Children’s Cancer Connection, ChildServe, and the River Woods PTA.
Kayela is excited for the opportunity to give back to the community with Spark Foundation to create the chance for all students to find their love of reading through diverse and inclusive books.
In her free time, Kayela enjoy spending time with her husband, young son, and fur babies.