STAFF

Anne Chesky Smith
Executive Director
[email protected]

Trevor Freeman
Public Programs Director
[email protected]

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

President
Ralph Simpson
Former Journalist & PR Consultant

Vice President
Geoff Cantrell
Media Relations Manager
Western Carolina University Communications and Marketing Office 

Secretary
Kerri Glover
Director, Community Relations and Marketing
A-B Tech Community College

Treasurer
Dirk Wilmoth, PhD
Chief Financial Officer, A-B Tech Community College

Immediate Past President
Allan Tarleton
Attorney, Retired

James Bradley
Secretary of Education, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

Jim Buchanan
Editor, Sylva Herald

Catherine Frank
Executive Director, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC-Asheville

Martha Fullington
Community Volunteer

Dee James
Professor Emeritus, UNC-Asheville

Steven Lee Johnson
Landscape Architect

Michael McLaughlin
Community Volunteer

Caragh Koon
Archivist

Kieta Osteen-Cochran
Community Volunteer