Board of Trustees
2023-2024

President
Ralph Simpson
President, Ralph Simpson & Associates, PR, retired

Vice President
Catherine Brod
Non-profit consultant; EVP, SUNY Purchase, retired

Secretary
Michael McLaughlin
National Endowment for the Arts administrator, retired

Treasurer
Dirk Wilmoth
A-B Tech, CFO/vice president of business and finance

Immediate Past President
Allan Tarleton
Attorney, Van Winkle Law Firm, retired

James Bradley
Secretary of Education, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

Kirk Brown
Chaplain, Christ School, retired

Jim Buchanan
Editor, The Sylva Herald

Geoff Cantrell
Director, Public Relations and Communications, Givens Communities

Catherine Frank
Executive Director, OLLI, UNC-A

Martha Fullington
Preservation Specialist and Architectural Historian for the State Historic Preservation Office/NC Archives and History, retired

Dee James
Professor Emeritus, UNC-A

Steven Lee Johnson
Landscape Architect, Partner, Sitework Studios

Kieta Osteen-Cochrane
Executive Director, Brevard Community College (FL), retired

Staff

TREVOR FREEMAN

PUBLIC PROGRAMS DIRECTOR

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