BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Nashville Mayor John Cooper, Honorary Chair
Barry Kolar, President (TN Bar Association)
Eric Beyer, Vice President (Metro Transit)
Mina Johnson, Vice President
Matt Pierce, Secretary
Julie Allen, Treasurer (Community Volunteer)
Parker Higgins, Assistant Treasurer (Deloitte)
Burkley Allen (Metro Council member, District 18)
Gail Vaughn Ashworth (Wiseman Ashworth Law Group)
Amy Bryan Fosgate (REACH, LLC)
Hogan Bryant (CAT Financial)
David Butler (Aetna)
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (Vanderbilt University)
Jim Catalano (The Catalano Firm)
Patsy Cottrell (former TN Court of Appeals judge)
Amélie de Gaulle (Honorary French Consul, Interior Designer)
Sherie Edwards (SVMIC)
Tom Elmlinger (Elmlinger Law)
Lee Fentriss (Heritage Medical Associates)
Aaron Fiske (B. Riley Financial)
Hiroshi Goto (AllianceBernstein)
Karen Y. Johnson (Nashville Davidson County Register of Deeds)
Shokhlo Amy Karaman (Magazine Editor)
Hsing Liu (Invest China US)
Jeff Lynch (Summit Financial Group)
Christina Mathesius (Senate of the Economy US)
Jeff Mahoney (Radiologist)
Carol McCoy (former Chancellor)
Becky Meagher (Crye Leike Realtors)
Lori Odom (Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce)
Mark O'Shea (Musician)
Jeff Overby (Belmont University)
Bill Purcell (Frost Brown Todd Law)
Micaela Reed (A&M Events)
Tabitha Robinson (NES)
Loraine Segovia Paz (𝒱𝑜𝒾𝒸𝑒𝓈 De Las Américas, and Nashville Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation)
Becky Sharpe (International Scholarship and Tuition Services)
Jim Shulman (Vice Mayor)
Janice Snow Rodriguez (Tennessee Language Institute)
Ann Waddey (Waddey Property Management Co.)
Dan Walsh (retired CAT Financial)
Celeste Wilson (United Way of Middle Tennessee)
Brenda Wynn (Davidson County Clerk)
Marieta Velikova (Belmont University)
Dilman Yasin (Metro Nashville)
Executive Director: Sarah Lingo
Director of Student Exchanges: Claire Coleman
Barry Kolar, President (TN Bar Association)
Eric Beyer, Vice President (Metro Transit)
Mina Johnson, Vice President
Matt Pierce, Secretary
Julie Allen, Treasurer (Community Volunteer)
Parker Higgins, Assistant Treasurer (Deloitte)
Burkley Allen (Metro Council member, District 18)
Gail Vaughn Ashworth (Wiseman Ashworth Law Group)
Amy Bryan Fosgate (REACH, LLC)
Hogan Bryant (CAT Financial)
David Butler (Aetna)
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (Vanderbilt University)
Jim Catalano (The Catalano Firm)
Patsy Cottrell (former TN Court of Appeals judge)
Amélie de Gaulle (Honorary French Consul, Interior Designer)
Sherie Edwards (SVMIC)
Tom Elmlinger (Elmlinger Law)
Lee Fentriss (Heritage Medical Associates)
Aaron Fiske (B. Riley Financial)
Hiroshi Goto (AllianceBernstein)
Karen Y. Johnson (Nashville Davidson County Register of Deeds)
Shokhlo Amy Karaman (Magazine Editor)
Hsing Liu (Invest China US)
Jeff Lynch (Summit Financial Group)
Christina Mathesius (Senate of the Economy US)
Jeff Mahoney (Radiologist)
Carol McCoy (former Chancellor)
Becky Meagher (Crye Leike Realtors)
Lori Odom (Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce)
Mark O'Shea (Musician)
Jeff Overby (Belmont University)
Bill Purcell (Frost Brown Todd Law)
Micaela Reed (A&M Events)
Tabitha Robinson (NES)
Loraine Segovia Paz (𝒱𝑜𝒾𝒸𝑒𝓈 De Las Américas, and Nashville Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation)
Becky Sharpe (International Scholarship and Tuition Services)
Jim Shulman (Vice Mayor)
Janice Snow Rodriguez (Tennessee Language Institute)
Ann Waddey (Waddey Property Management Co.)
Dan Walsh (retired CAT Financial)
Celeste Wilson (United Way of Middle Tennessee)
Brenda Wynn (Davidson County Clerk)
Marieta Velikova (Belmont University)
Dilman Yasin (Metro Nashville)
Executive Director: Sarah Lingo
Director of Student Exchanges: Claire Coleman