Our Board
WEST TENNESSEE
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
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
Jennifer Triplett (Nashville)
Associate | Stones River Group
EAST TENNESSEE
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