Meet Our Noble Founding Team
Dominique Anderson
Founder & CEO at Populace Community Strategy
Favorite Quote: Do or do not; there is no try. -Yoda
Brian Bradshaw
Pastor of External & Ministerial Development at Mount Zion Nashville
Favorite Quote: But you don’t choose the time. The time chooses you. Either you seize what may turn out to be the only chance you have, or you decide you’re willing to live with the knowledge that the chance has passed you by. - excerpt from A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Marisa Cannata
Professor of the Practice of Education Policy & School Reform
Favorite Quote: Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place. -The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Paula Collick
Franchising Development Manager at
McDonald's USA
Favorite Quote: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. -excerpt from The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr
Celest Davis
Credentialing Coordinator at DaVita Healthcare
Favorite Quote: If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. -Maya Angelou
Charles Frazier
Tax & Estate Planning Attorney at Law Offices of Charles R. Frazier
Favorite Quote: If you don’t try, you can’t fail. If you do try, you might fail anyway. But better to have failed than never tried. -Chloe Thurlow
Dwight Gordon, II
Insurance Agent at Allstate Insurance Company
Favorite Quote: Tis better to think you are ignorant than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -Mark Twain
Jantrice Johnson
Realtor at Intero Real Estate Services
Favorite Quote: Beholding leads to becoming.
Becoming leads to reflecting. -Max Lucado
Daniel Kadeba
Managing Consultant at Finance Transformation
Favorite Quote: If you can make one heap of all your winnings, and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings, and never breathe a word about your loss; you will be a man, my son. -excerpt from If by Rudyard Kipling
Travonnie Mackey
Co-Founder at Empact
Favorite Quote: Character plus intelligence- that is the goal of true education.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Regina Verdin
Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs at Motlow State Community College
Favorite Quote: I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things. -Saint Teresa of Calcutta