Our Board

WEST TENNESSEE
Lynn Alexander, Immediate Past Chair (Martin)
Dean, College of Humanities | UT Martin
Peggy Burch (Memphis)
Community Engagement Editor | The Daily Memphian
Jen Wheatley (Big Sandy)
Director of Sustainability | Friends of Land Between the Lakes
LaTricea Adams (Memphis)
Manager, Office of Charter Schools | Shelby Co. Schools
Kathi Leatherwood (Jackson)
Executive Director | Jackson Arts Council
John Talbott (Henderson)
Attorney and Publisher
MIDDLE TENNESSEE
Sammie Arnold, Chair-Elect (Nashville)
Asst. Commissioner of Community & Rural Development | TN Dept. of Economic & Community Development
Carol McCoy (Nashville)
Retired Chancellor | Davidson County Chancery Court
Courtney Gregg (Nashville)
Carnival Music | (Board Intern)
Lauren Fitzgerald (Smyrna)
Managing Director, Interculture Leadership Institute | Alternate ROOTS
Randy Mackin (Murfreesboro)
Faculty, Department of English | MTSU
Jennifer Triplett (Nashville)
Associate | Stones River Group
EAST TENNESSEE
Daryl A. Carter, Chair (Johnson City)
Director/Africana Studies & Professor of History | ETSU
Mary Pom Claiborne (Knoxville)
Asst. Director, Comm & Dev | Knox Co. Public Library System
Julie Forkner (Oak Ridge)
Director | Oak Ridge Public Library
April Alvarez (Sewanee)
Assoc. Director of the School of Letters | U. of the South
Amy Elias (Knoxville)
Director | Humanities Center, UT Knoxville
Mary Kennedy Hendershot (Sweetwater)
Community Arts Leader
James McKissic (Chattanooga)
VP & C.O.O. | Chattanooga Urban League