BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Nashville Mayor John Cooper, Honorary Chair
Mina Johnson,  President 
Eric Beyer, Vice President (Metro Transit)
Becky Sharpe, Vice President (International Scholarship and Tuition Services)
Shokhlo Amy Karaman, Secretary (Magazine Editor)
Julie Allen, Treasurer  (Community Volunteer)
Parker Higgins, Assistant Treasurer (Deloitte) 

Burkley Allen  (Metro Council member, District 18)
Gail Vaughn Ashworth (Wiseman Ashworth Law Group)
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)
Hiroshi Goto (AllianceBernstein)
Karen Y. Johnson (Nashville Davidson County Register of Deeds)
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)
Tabitha Robinson (NES)
Loraine Segovia Paz (𝒱𝑜𝒾𝒸𝑒𝓈 De Las Américas, and Nashville Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation) 
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: Layla Smallwood-Gabrielle