Executive Director

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Executive Director	Ms. Katie McDougall
E-mail	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. In 2023, she launched The Porch's Writing for Good program. 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

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Co-Executive Director	Susannah Felts
E-mail	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. Previously, Susannah taught creative writing at Watkins College of Art and Design, 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 been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, as well as publications such as The Oxford American, The Sun, Quarterly West, Longreads, Joyland, Guernica, StorySouth, LitHub, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, 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, events, and other programming, and she oversees marketing and communications. She is also an assistant editor for SWING, The Porch's biannual literary magazine, and editor of The Porch's blog, Screen Porch.

Senior Staff

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Name	Title
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	5
Part Time Staff	2
Volunteers	30
Contractors	180
Retention Rate	100%

Plans & Policies

Does your organization have a Fundraising Plan?	Yes
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)
CEO/Executive Director	N/A	N/A
Senior Management	Yes	Quarterly
Non-Management	Yes	Semi-Annually