Peggy Burch (Memphis)
Community Engagement Editor | The Daily Memphian

Kathi Leatherwood (Jackson)
Retired arts professional

John Talbott (Henderson)
Attorney and Publisher

Jen Wheatley (Big Sandy)
Director of Sustainability | Friends of Land Between the Lakes

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

Jennifer Triplett (Nashville)
Associate | Stones River Group

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

James McKissic, Vice Chair (Chattanooga)
President | ArtsBuild

Daryl A. Carter, Immediate Past Chair (Johnson City)
Director/Africana Studies & Professor of History | ETSU

April Alvarez (Sewanee)
Assoc. Director of the School of Letters | U. of the South

Amy Elias (Knoxville)
Director | Humanities Center, UT Knoxville

Julie Forkner (Oak Ridge)
Director | Oak Ridge Public Library

Mary Kennedy Hendershot (Sweetwater)
Community Arts Leader