Officers
Patricia Watson – President -Community Volunteer
Sharon Johnson – Treasurer – Hines & Company
Susan Edwards – Secretary - V.P. Customer Services and Communications – KUB
Ellen Fowler – Immediate Past President – CAO - Johnson & Galyon
Board Members
Linda Davidson - Vice Chancellor and Associate V.P., University of Tennessee
Martha Begalla – Community Volunteer
Jim Proud – Media Directions Advertising, Retired
Andrea White – V.P., The Stokely Company
Tim Berry - VP, General Counsel & Secretary, Pilot Travel Centers LLC
Georgiana Vines – Retired, Associate Editor, News Sentinel
Barbara Dewey – Dean of Libraries, University of Tennessee
Brooke Duncan – V.P. Development and Planning, Davis Newman Payne
Kathryn Jackson – Executive V.P., Chief Environmental Officer, TVA
Jenny Smith – Manager, Training and Development, Image Point
Chris Rucker – Community Volunteer
Bill Snyder – Chancellor Emeritus, University of Tennessee
Martha Buchanan – Assistant Public Health Officer, Knox County Health Department
Gail Cope – Center for Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee
Jill Van Beke- Deputy Director, Policy Development, City of Knoxville
Tom Ferriter – President and Chief Operating Officer, Bush Brothers & Company
Julia Bentley – V.P., Saks, Inc.
Alan Nieman – Community Volunteer
Kristi Davis – Attorney, Hodges, Doughty and Carson
Carol Petersen – Community Volunteer
Matt Schaffer Powell – News Director, WUOT
Maureen Wilson - Media Directions Advertising, President
"Friends of Literacy strives to help volunteers realize that their efforts at helping someone learn to read not only changes the life of that person, but also, in the process and result, it changes the entire community. One person. That's how you start to change the world."
—Brad Meltzer