The Porch Writers' Collective
Executive Director
Executive Director | Ms. Katie McDougall |
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katie@porchtn.org | |
Term Start | January 2014 |
Katie's Experience: Katie McDougall is a native Nashvillian, a novelist, and a teacher. She earned her B.A. from Colorado College and an MFA in Fiction Writing at Colorado State University. Her short stories have appeared in BarcelonaReview.com and in Storyglossia.com, and she is currently in the process of finding a home for her second novel. Katie has over fifteen years experience as a teacher of literature and creative writing, most recently at Ensworth high school. She has also worked as an outdoor educator, a freelance writer, and a bookseller at Parnassus Books. Additionally, she has coordinated writing workshops, ranging from the annual one-day Nashville Young Writers Workshop to the week-long Sense of Place Workshop with Richard Bausch at Cape Eleuthera, Bahamas. Since co-founding The Porch, Katie has taken a lead role in the organization's fundraising and nonprofit management. She is delighted by the growth of The Porch, through which she hopes to give a little something back to her beloved hometown. |
Co-Executive Director
Co-Executive Director | Susannah Felts |
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Susannah@porchtn.org | |
Term Start | January 2014 |
Susannah's Experience: Susannah is a fiction writer, freelance writer, teacher, editor, and native Nashvillian. In 2009, after many years away from her hometown, she returned to put down roots with her family in East Nashville. Since then she has been an adjunct faculty member at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film, and has taught a series of fiction workshops independently, aka the beta-version of The Porch. Previously, Susannah taught creative writing at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, at Gallery 37's after-school arts program in Chicago, and in several other youth and community workshop settings. Her first novel, This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record, was published in 2008 by Featherproof Books, an independent publisher based in Chicago. Susannah was the recipient of the Tennessee Arts Commission's Individual Artist Fellowship in Fiction for 2013. She has been awarded the Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers' Conference, as well as residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Oxford American, The Sun, Quarterly West, Corium, Redux, Hobart, Five Chapters, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Pindeldyboz.com, Wigleaf, Quick Fiction, and others. She earned her BA with Highest Honors in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and holds an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Susannah is also a contributing writer for Chapter 16, Humanities Tennessee's site devoted to literary culture. As founder and creative director of The Porch, Susannah has taken a lead role in developing and coordinating workshops and in heading up marketing and social media. |
Senior Staff
Name | Title |
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Joe Kane | Youth Program Director |
Susannah Felts | Co-Director |
Halley Corapi | Programs and Marketing Manager |
Katie McDougall | Co-Director |
Nina Adel | Director of Immigrants Write |
Bonnie St Martin | Director of Development |
Yurina Yoshikawa | Director of Education |
Staff
Full Time Staff | 4 |
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Part Time Staff | 6 |
Volunteers | 40 |
Contractors | 60 |
Retention Rate | 100% |
Plans & Policies
Does your organization have a Fundraising Plan? | Yes |
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Does your organization have a Strategic Plan? | Yes |
Years Strategic Plan Considers | 5 |
When was the Strategic Plan adopted? | January 2022 |
Does your organization have a Management Succession Plan? | Yes |
Does your organization have a Policy and Procedure Plan? | Under Development |
Does the organization have a Nondiscrimination Policy? | Yes |
Does the organization have a Whistle Blower Policy? | Yes |
Does the organization have a Document Destruction Policy? | Yes |
Evaluation
Is there a formal evaluation for... | Frequency (if applicable) | |
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CEO/Executive Director | N/A | N/A |
Senior Management | Yes | Quarterly |
Non-Management | Yes | Semi-Annually |