Marry unwavering faith with a driving need to help the helpless and you have Keira Wyatt, executive director of Connect Ministries. An appropriate Biblical verse comes to mind: “By their …
Tammy White: A servant’s heart shaping servant leaders
Think of Leadership Knoxville as a business and its product servant leaders.
Tammy White, the organization’s president and CEO grew up in Walhalla, South Carolina, a town of about 4,000 she …
Karen Pershing explains ‘this is your brain on drugs‘
Quickly, what’s the most abused brain-altering substance? If you said prescription opioid pain pills or any opioid, you flunked the quiz.
“It’s alcohol,” said Karen Pershing, and she should know. Pershing …
Julie Thompson: One caring adult making a difference
Julie Thompson was an early participant in the expanding use of technology in the classroom, but 27 years as a teacher and administrator have not altered her conviction that no …
Phyllis Nichols: 25 years of Urban League service and counting
When Martin Luther King Jr. mesmerized the nation with his “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, African-American equality with whites in job opportunities, housing, voting rights, civil rights and …
Don’t mess with Wanda Moody
Pity the misbehaving student in Wanda Moody’s early classroom. Inside her somewhat crusty exterior there beats a kind and caring heart. But the kid didn’t know it.
Pity the property seller …
The Blue Streak talks sports
Cynthia Moxley has a neat treat for basketball fans as she recaps coach Kellie Harper’s recent talk to the Executive Women’s Association at the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. Read …
Lauren Rider: City council’s energizer bunny
Lauren Rider is the energizer bunny of the city council and she’s fully charged. Put it down to the happy transition from living two miles down a dirt road in …