Get to know our team.

Staff

Josie Ballin
Director of Marketing and Donor Engagement

[email protected]
direct: 901.341.0401

Colleen McCartney

Colleen Chandler
Grants & Initiatives Manager

[email protected]
direct: 901.341.0403

Tracy Lauritzen Wright
Chief Operating Officer

[email protected]
direct: 901.341.0407

Ellen Lester

Ellen Lester
Chief Financial Officer

[email protected]
direct: 901.341.0404

Kelsea Lewis
Development & Operations Coordinator

[email protected]
direct: 901.578.2787

Elizabeth Rouse
President & Chief Executive Officer

[email protected]
direct: 901.341.0410

Board of Directors

Executive Committee

Pat Danehy Chair
Principal, NewSouth Capital Management

Kathy Gale Uhlhorn Vice Chair

Jon Moorehead Treasurer
Audit & Assurance Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Dr. Russ Wigginton, Secretary
Chief Postsecondary Impact Officer, State Collaborative on Reforming Education

Bruce B. Hopkins
Retired Chairman, First Horizon

Greg Baudoin
Owner, Greg Baudoin Interior Design

Trow Gillespie
President, NewSouth Capital Management

Lucy Lee, Immediate Past Chair

Gary Wunderlich
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Live Oak Merchant Partners

Oscar Adams
SVP, Trading Strategies Group, Vining Sparks

Bo Allen
West Tennessee Region President, First Horizon

C. David Biggers, Jr.
Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office

Michael Campanaro
VP, IT, AutoZone

Bill Carkeet, Jr.
Founder, Oden & Associates

Kate Connell
Investment Manager, Gilliland Investments

Bob Craddock
Partner, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP

Maysey Craddock
Artist

Michael Drake
President, JM Drake Enterprises

Martin Hand
Chief Donor Officer, ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Whitney Hardy
Founder & Executive Director, 3RDSPACE / Chief Capacity Officer, Epicenter

Mary Hopkins
VP, Chief Accounting Officer, Terminix

Dianne Mall

Juanita Ortiz

Reginald R. Paige, Sr.
Associate General Counsel, Evergreen Packaging, LLC

Ashley Patterson, Reaves Law Firm

Ron Walter
President & General Manager, WREG-TV Channel 3