LEAD Celebrates Nashville Leaders Throughout Women’s History Month
To celebrate Women’s History Month, LEAD is recognizing the incredible women who make an impact in the Nashville community and beyond. These women embody the LEAD Ethos in their life and works and prove to be: Committed, Disciplined, Self-Reliant, Service-Minded, and Courageous. They provide an example to us of what it means to be a strong community leader.
- Creator of Thistle Farms, a non-profit that helps women survivors recover and heal.
- Founder of 8 justice organizations
- Author of 10 books
- Co-founder of Conexión Américas – a non-profit that supports more than 8,000 immigrant families every year in their journey to become an integral part of Nashville’s social, cultural, and economic vitality
- Fierce advocate for cultural growth
- Award-winning anchor, host and writer for WSMV-TV
- Member of 2018 Class of Leadership Nashville
- Volunteer at the Sexual Assault Center of Nashville
- Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Law Graduate
- President and CEO of YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee – bringing women and girls a better quality of life and raising awareness to diminish violence and racism.
- Award-winning chef and Food Network star
- Owner of four Nashville restaurants: Chauhan – Ale Masala House in Nashville, The Mockingbird, Chaatable, and Tansuo
- Tennessee State University graduate
- TV host and philanthropist
- Former News Channel 4 anchor
- Tennessee Senator
- Tennessee State University and Vanderbilt University graduate
- County music icon
- Founder of Imagination Library – mails free books to children in Tennessee
- Funder for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
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