WEST TENNESSEE
Judy Barker (Union City)
Attorney
Peggy Burch (Memphis)
Community Engagement Editor | The Daily Memphian
Tonya Dyson (Memphis)
Executive Director | Memphis Slim Collaboratory
Kathi Leatherwood (Jackson)
Retired arts professional
John Talbott (Henderson)
Attorney and Publisher
MIDDLE TENNESSEE
Lauren Fitzgerald (Smyrna)
Managing Director, Interculture Leadership Institute | Alternate ROOTS
Courtney Gregg (Nashville)
Blue Sky Artist Management
Carol McCoy (Nashville)
Retired Chancellor | Davidson County Chancery Court
Allison Stansberry (Nashville)
Business Analyst, Development Solutions | Parallon
EAST TENNESSEE
Daryl A. Carter, Immediate Past Chair (Johnson City)
Director/Africana Studies & Professor of History | ETSU
Mary Pom Claiborne, Chair (Knoxville)
Director, Marketing, Development & Communications | Knox Co. Public Library System
Amy Elias (Knoxville)
Director, Humanities Center | UT Knoxville
Julie Forkner (Oak Ridge)
Director | Oak Ridge Public Library
Mary Kennedy Hendershot (Sweetwater)
Community Arts Leader
Heather Hoover (Johnson City)
George Arnold Chair of Humanities; Professor of English and Composition; Director of Writing | Milligan University
James McKissic, Vice Chair (Chattanooga)
President | ArtsBuild
Chandra Ward (Chattanooga)
Assistant Professor of Sociology | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga