Board Chair

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Board Chair	Barry Kolar
Company Affiliation	Tennessee Bar Association
Term	January 2020 to December 2022
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Board of Directors

Board Members

Name	Affiliation	Status
Ms. Burkley Allen	Community Volunteer	Voting
Ms. Julie Allen	Community Volunteer	Voting
Mr. Eric Beyer	Nashville MTA	Voting
Amy Bryan	REACH LLC	Voting
Hogan Bryant	CAT Financial	Voting
David Butler	Aetna	Voting
Maria Campos-Pons	Vanderbilt University	Voting
Jim Catalano	Frost Brown Todd	Voting
Ms. Patsy Cottrell	Bone McAllester Norton	Voting
Ms. Amelie de Gaulle	Honorary French Consul	Voting
Ms. Sherie Edwards	State Volunteer Mutual Insurance Co.	Voting
Thomas Elmlinger	Elmlinger Law	Voting
Dr. Lee Fentriss	Heritage Medical Associates	Voting
Aaron Fiske	B. Riley Financial	Voting
Hiroshi Goto	AllianceBernstein	Voting
Parker Higgins	Deloitte	Voting
Karen Johnson	Davidson County Register of Deeds	Voting
Ms. Mina Johnson	Metro Council	Voting
Shokhlo Karaman	Magazine Editor	Voting
Mr. Barry Kolar	TN Bar Association	Voting
Jeff Lynch	Summit Financial Group	Voting
Jeff Mahoney	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Voting
Christina Mathesius	Senate of the Economy	Voting
Ms. Carol McCoy		Voting
Ms. Becky Meagher	V.P., Borker, Cyre Lieke REaltors	Voting
Mark O'Shea	Musician	Voting
Ms. Lori Odom	Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce	Voting
Dr. Jeff Overby	Belmont University	Voting
Mr. Matthew Pierce	Platinum Co.	Voting
Bill Purcell	Frost Brown Todd Law	Voting
Micaela Reed	Community Volunteer	Voting
Tabitha Robinson	Nashville Electric Service	Voting
Janice Rodriguez	Tennessee Language Institute	Voting
Loraine Segovia-Paz	???????????????????????? De Las Americas, and Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce	Voting
Ms. Becky Sharpe	International Scholarship & Tuition SErvices	Voting
Mr. Jim Shulman	Metro Council	Voting
Mrs. Gail Vaughn Ashworth	Gideon, Wiseman	Voting
Marieta Velikova	Belmont University	Voting
Ms. Ann Waddey	Waddey property Management	Voting
Dan Walsh	Retired	Voting
Ms. Celeste Wilson	United Way	Voting
Brenda Wynn	Davidson County Clerk	Voting
Dilman Yasin	Metro Nashville Government	Voting

Youth Board Members

Name	Affiliation	Status
Rachel Barnes		Voting
Carrie Cohen		Voting
Olivia Connor
Arden Davis		Voting
Olivia Leu		Voting
Reed Locke		Voting
Maggie Loes		Voting
Mitchell Morrison		Voting
Elizabeth O'Dell		Voting
Andrew Peebles		Voting
Max Pinson		Voting
Will Rieck		Voting
William Seitz		Voting
Lauren Shepard		Voting
Sidney Starr		Voting
Charlotte Taylor

Other Board Members

Name	Affiliation	Status
Linley Stowe	Conexion Americas	NonVoting

Governance

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Board Term Lengths	3.00 years
Board Term Limits	0
Board Meeting Attendance %	60%
Does the organization have written Board Selection Criteria?	No
Does the organization have a written Conflict of Interest Policy?	Yes
Percentage Making Monetary Contributions	0
Percentage of Board Members making In-Kind Contributions	100%
Does the Board include Client Representation?	Yes
Number of Full Board Meetings Annually	10

Standing Committees

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Education

Executive

Finance

Membership

Nominating

Program

Special Events (Golf Tournament, Walk / Run, Silent Auction, Dinner / Gala)

CEO/Executive Director/Board Comments

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Why do I care? Many years ago my life has been transformed forever by an opportunity to be an exchange student for a year in a little logging community in Weippe, Idaho. It was the first high school student exchange program between the USA and Russia. Its goal was simple and honorable to build the bridge between two countries by connecting and bringing people together. It was the most incredible year of my life: year of learning not as a visitor but as a local, year of being out of comfort zone and, therefore, expanding my human dimensions and horizons while learning how to not only communicate but truly connect with people of different language, culture, background, race, and ethnicity. First, all I could see were vast differences and only later I started to see and appreciate the similarities. A country of strangers became a country of friends. That year provoked the deepest sense of curiosity about the world and its citizens. That's why today I wholeheartedly support and believe in the mission of SCN and the essential role it plays in building and shaping Nashville community. We connect people of Nashville to people around the world, we build relationships, and we promote cultural awareness and understanding. And while technology enables connectivity, it doesn't build true and authentic friendships; it doesn't create life long memories and life changing moments. As long as we as global citizens come together in real life and real time whether through education, music, sport, business or art the prospects for world peace will be strong. Beneath our diversity, the people of the world have similar goals of human dignity, freedom, and a chance to prosper. George Santayana, an American traveler and philosopher, once said, `A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. That's why I choose to be a citizen diplomat and give to SCN. Join SCN, give to SCN today to help Nashville become a true global city of the present and the future.