Board of Directors


WEST TENNESSEE


Judy Barker (Union City)
Attorney

Elaine Christian (Jackson)
Retired, Workforce Development Professional

Kathryn McBride (Martin)
Assistant Director | Obion River Regional Library Center, Tennessee State Library & Archives

Daphene McFerren (Memphis)
Executive Director | Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, The University of Memphis

John Talbott (Henderson)
Attorney and Publisher


MIDDLE TENNESSEE


Caroline Bradshaw (Nashville)
Senior VP & Managing Director of Trust Administration | Cumberland Trust

Mark Dudney (Cookeville)
Public Historian | Upper Cumberland Development District

Courtney Gregg (Nashville)
Owner | Blue Sky Management

Bonnie Grzeszczak (Spring Hill)
Communications Director, Culture and Values | HCA Healthcare

Angie Davis Jones (Columbia)
Owner | One Woman Show Design

Allison Stansberry (Nashville)
Program Coordinator | HCA Healthcare/TriStar Health


EAST TENNESSEE


Barry Allen (Jasper)
President & CEO | Tower Community Bank

Mary Pom Claiborne, Immed. Past Chair (Knoxville)
Director, Marketing, Development & Communications | Knox Co. Public Library System

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

Pablo Mazariegos (Chattanooga)
Narrative Filmmaker & Youth Intervention Specialist | Resilient Story

James McKissic, Chair (Chattanooga)
President | ArtsBuild

Chandra Ward (Chattanooga)
Assistant Professor of Sociology | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga