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Board of Directors

RobynWilliams
Robyn Williams, Chair

Bridgestone Americas, Inc.

Kaitlyn Jones
Kaitlyn Jones, Vice Chair

R.C. Mathews Contractor

JoseFerreira
Jose Ferreira, Treasurer

JLL, Inc.

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Kason Davis, Secretary

Caterpillar Financial Services

Chuck Abbott
Gray Line Tennessee

Brittany Adams-Davis
Dollar General Corporation

Kfir Alexandroni
Aprio LLP

Lamar Allen
LaMarvelous Balloons

Liberty Berman
LP Building Solutions

Brent Binns
Elliott Davis

Lillian Blackshear
Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Herbert Brown
Turner Construction

Elizabeth Garza Bumpas
Vanderbilt University

Britney Cline
Regions Financial Corporation

Melissa Cornejo-Nell
MNPS

Leslie Cowell
Lipscomb University

Kenneth Crapse
First Horizon

Josh DePriest
Rogers Group

Kirsten Dodson
Lipscomb University

John Doerge
Deloitte

Christina Feagins
Deloitte

Todd Figler
AllianceBernstein

Nicole Flynn
Ryman Hospitality Properties

Jessie Garcia Knowles
Clark Construction Group

Sharon Gentry
HCA Healthcare

Kia Goodwin
Brown-Forman Corporation

Jeff Gregg
Lantern Lane Farm Counseling

Lila Hall
Yazoo Brewing Company

Taneisha Harvey
Nashville Municipal Auditorium

Jacqueline Hayes
Crayons & Marketers

Herman Hicks
First Horizon

Brandon Hill
Nashville Soccer Club

Colleen Hoy 
ENA by Zayo

Meredith Jones Long
Creative Artists Agency

Minh Le 
FINN Partners

Emmanuel LeGrair 
R.H. Boyd

Devin Lintzenich
Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Johari Matthews
ONE Community Tennessee Titans

Blake McDaniel
Daps Landing Media

James McIntyre
Belmont University

Norman Merrifield
808 Education

Hasina Mohyuddin, Immediate Past Chair
Vanderbilt University Peabody College

P. Danielle Nellis
Tennessee State Board of Education

Will Parrott
Merrill Lynch

Sam Reed
Jigsaw

Kendrick Robinson 
Rehrig Pacific Company

Nicole Robinson-Hamilton Ingram Content Group

Yanet Rodriguez
JJJ Service

Nicole Sims
Burr & Forman LLP

Rachael Terrell
Paramount Media Networks

Jennifer Wade
Davidson County Juvenile Court

Juan Williams
Tennessee Department of Human Resources

EX OFFICIO

Sue Spickard
PENCIL Co-Founder

Adrienne Battle
MNPS Director of Schools

Chris Henson
MNPS Chief of Special Projects

Watechia Lawless
Office of Mayor Freddie O’Connell

Jaimie Swann, Board Fellow
Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management

Obinna Udeh, Board Fellow
Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management

Shay Coplin, Intern 
Young Leaders Council

Patrick Dooley, Intern 
Young Leaders Council

Erica Griffith, Intern
Young Leaders Council

Katlin Pendleton, Intern
Young Leaders Council

Emerging Leaders

Leadership:

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Shohreh Daraei

Ascension Saint Thomas

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Zach Opheim

Compass Nashville

Anupam
Anupam Bhakta

Broadcast Music, Inc.

Alex Abels
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

Cyrus Bahrassa
Ashavan

Megan Behringer
Williamson County Schools

Shabir Bhegani
Bhegani Execution

Sophie Binenfeld
Fuchs Research Group

Alfred Brady
UpRise Nashville

Houston Brown
Alvarez & Marsal

Lindsey Bunt
Vanderbilt University

Amia’ Butler
Meharry Medical College

Cathy Carrillo
Metro Human Relations Commission

Benjamin Davis
Elliott Davis

Taia Davis
Youth Changes

Joya Dinwiddie
Regions Bank

Griselda Gaona
Turner Construction

Mariah Garner
KIPP Foundation

Ethan Goldish
Creative Artists Agency

Brandon Haskins
BranEdD Consulting

Vanessa Herbig-Johnson
YWCA Nashville

Ray Holloman
F5 Networks

Whitney Jenkins
Metro Nashville Public Schools

Ivy Johnson
Asurion

Sabrina Johnson
Martha O’Bryan Center

Emma Jordan
Stantec

Thomas Kelly
Creative Soulz Printing 

Rebecca Mejia
Gresham Smith

Kelly Mitchell
EY

Allan Moreno
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Devin Murphy
Omni Nashville Hotel

Frank Murphy
OMNIA Partners

Cleary Gray Plosser
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Meili Powell
The Education Trust – Tennessee

Heather Reid
Community Health Systems 

Erin Ritter
Ingram Industries

Jacolby Robinson
Fifth Third Bank

Teresa Vasquez
Repped in Tech 

Ashley Vega
Vega Designs

Nikki Walker
East Nashville Hope Exchange 

Cedric Walls
LP Building Solutions