Board Chair

Vice President, Government Affairs Alabama Power

Houston Smith

Vice Chair

Vice President of Business Development Economic Development Partnerships of Alabama

Bakari Miller

Attorney Butler Snow LLP

Jesse Blount

Greater New Orleands/Louisiana Delta

12

Executive Director ACLU of Alabama

JaTaune Bosby

Director of Business Development Christian & Small LLP

Julie Ellis

Chief Executive Officer Trillon Communications

Brian Hamilton

Superintendent, Retired Perry County Schools

John Heard

Chief of Staff The Office of Congresswoman Terri Sewell

Myeisha Hutchinson

Owner Bill Mackey Real Estate, LLC

Bill Mackey

Executive Director Breakthrough Birmingham

Mariohn Michel

Alabama

11

Vice Chair

Executive Director The Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Institute

Thomas Rains

Mississippi Delta

05

Immediate Past Board Chair

Managing Partner, Retired Christian & Small, LLP

Deborah Alley Smith

Head of Strategy and Corporate Development Regions Bank

Tom Speir

President Village Creek Development

Tom Walker