Employees

Dawn Schluckebier joined ThinkTennessee in 2018 and serves as the Advocacy and Government Relations Director. In this role, she leads the organization’s legislative strategy and civic engagement [...]

Mary Darby joined ThinkTennessee as External Relations Director in May 2017.  In this role, she oversees the organization’s fundraising, communications, and operations, and supports the [...]

Shanna Singh Hughey is the founding president of ThinkTennessee. Previously, she was a senior advisor to Nashville Mayor Karl Dean and the director of the Mayor’s Office of New Americans. She [...]

Dr. Alex Jahangir is a professor of orthopedic surgery and an orthopedic trauma surgeon at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He serves as an associate chief of staff at Vanderbilt University [...]

Whitney Kimball Coe is the director of National Programs at the Center for Rural Strategies. In that role, she leads the Rural Assembly, a nationwide movement striving to build better policy and [...]

Professor Tracey George holds an endowed chair at Vanderbilt University where she is a professor of law and political science. She brings a social science perspective to the study of judges and [...]

Mark Byrnes grew up in Murfreesboro and graduated from Riverdale High School before completing a B.S. in political science from MTSU in 1983. He went on to earn a Diploma in International and [...]

Bright recently retired from the Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis as its President and CEO after serving over 22 years of leadership. During her tenure, the Women’s Foundation invested [...]

Doug Blaze joined the University of Tennessee College of Law faculty in 1993 as the director of clinical programs. He served as dean of the College of Law from 2008 to 2015 and from 2020-2022.  [...]

David Smith is the founder and president of DAS Consulting, LLC, a single-member general consulting firm helping businesses and organizations navigate public and political discourse and avoid [...]