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)
Catrina Bell (Ascension Health)
Amy Fosgate (REACH, LLC)
David Butler (Birch Healthcare Insights)
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)
Tom Elmlinger (Elmlinger Law)
Lee Fentriss (Heritage Medical Associates)
Aaron Fiske (B. Riley Financial)
Hiroshi Goto (AllianceBernstein)
Shokhlo Amy Karaman (Magazine Editor)
Hsing Liu (Invest China US)
Jeff Lynch (Summit Financial Group)
Jeff Mahoney (Radiologist)
Christina Mathesius (Senate of the Economy US)
Carol McCoy (former Chancellor)
Becky Meagher (Crye Leike Realtors)
Lori Odom (Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce)
Jeff Overby (Belmont University) 
Bill Purcell (Frost Brown Todd Law)
Micaela Reed (A&M Events)
Tabitha Robinson (NES)
​Becky Sharpe (International Scholarship and Tuition Services)
Jim Shulman (Vice Mayor)
Marieta Velikova (Belmont University)
Ann Waddey (Waddey Property Management Co.) 
Dan Walsh (retired CAT Financial)
Celeste Wilson (United Way of Middle Tennessee)
Dilman Yasin (Metro Nashville)

Executive Director: Sarah Lingo
​Director of Student Exchanges: Claire Coleman