Speaker Friday, March 24, 2023
The Contributor is an award-winning newspaper sold with dignity by our neighbors climbing out of homelessness. But how does it work? What does it accomplish?
Cathy Jennings is the Executive Director of The Contributor in Nashville TN, a street paper empowering our homeless neighbors to achieve income, dignity, housing, and community. She currently serves as the chair of the Nashville Continuum of Care Shelter Committee and is on the North American Board of the International Network of Street Papers. She has a BS in Finance and an MS in English. Previously, she was an English professor at Belmont University and Tennessee State University and has been a private business owner.
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Recent and Future Speakers
| 4/10/26 | Steve Bland, CEO WEGO Public Transit | ||
| 4/17/26 | William Jeffries, Executive Director, African American Music Museum | ||
| 4/24/26 | Eric, Editor in Chief, Nashville Business Journal | ||
| 5/1/26 | Jim Easter, Healthcare trends in 2026 | ||
| 5/8/26 | Yuri Cunza, CEO Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce | ||
| 5/15/26 | Christiane Buggs, Bob Kucher, of PENCIL CEO | ||
| 5/22/26 | District Governor, John Christopher Williams | ||
| 5/29/26 | Laurel Creech and Casey Davis, The Nature Conservancy in Tennessee | ||
| 6/5/26 | Nashville Opera, Keri Alkema, Chief Strategy & Ops Officer |