It’s a shame local government can’t adopt Knox County Commissioner Larsen Jay’s business model. At Random Acts of Flowers, all materials are donated, nearly all the associates are volunteers, and …
Seema Singh: A new look on city council
City politicians are starting to notice the City Council Movement. They should. The movement came from nowhere two years ago and now claims 20 percent of Knoxville City Council.
Organizer Amelia …
Keira Wyatt: Connecting resources to need
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 …