Staff & Advisors

Rev. Dr. Billy Newton serves as the organizing director of the CSC. He moved from Memphis to Maryville in 2006 to help the college launch the center after six years of study and conversation. Having served at Rhodes College for sixteen years and with other positions in the Presbyterian Church and with nonprofit social services, Newton’s background includes teaching, church-related outreach ministries, community organizing, nonprofit management, servant leadership development and college chaplaincy. billy.newton@maryvillecollege.edu

 

CSC Student Interns, Malinda Taylor '(10), Cayce Williams ('12) and Jade Watts ('13) of Maryville College work with staff, faculty and students to take on particular projects in community programs, social networking and cultural awareness.

CSC campus and communty advisors

  • Susan Ambler, Associate Professor of Sociology, Maryville College
  • Emily Anderson, Pastor, New Providence Presbyterian Church
  • Bob Booker, Manager of Environmental Engineering and Community Relations/Communications, DENSO
  • Shirley Carr-Clowney, Executive Director, African Americans in Appalachia and Blount County
  • Ahley Cochrane, Associate Director, Center for Excellence in Learning through Service, Berea College
  • Carolyn Forster, Board Member, United Way of Blount County
  • Kristin Fox-Trautman, Vice President of Youth Development, Bridges
  • Wayne Freeman, Board Member, Sunset Gap Community Center
  • Tony Gibbons, Executive Director, Blount County Habitat for Humanity
  • Nina Gregg, Principal, Communication Resources
  • Sharon Hannum, Chair, Blount Chamber Foundation and MLK Celebraton Committee
  • Trudy Hughes, Executive Director, New Hope- Blount County Children's Advocacy Center
  • Paula McGhee, Director of Diversity Programming, Maryville College
  • Anne McKee, Campus Minister, Maryville College
  • Wayne Meisel, President, The Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation
  • Tom Moucka, Founder and President, The Thomas Scott Company - The Grantwriting Coach
  • Julie King Murphy, Assistant Dean for Student Leadership Development, The University of the South
  • Mark O'Gorman, Assoc. Professor of Political Science, Coordinator of Environmental Studies, Maryville College
  • Cole Piper, Director of American Humanic, Maryville College
  • Ariane Schratter, Associate Professor of Psychology, Maryville College
  • Mary Kay Sullivan, Joe D. Eakes Chair of Business, Professor of Management, Maryville College
  • Jerilyn Swann, National Coaltion Building Institute, Maryville College Chapter
  • Barbara Wells, Chair, Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Sociology, Maryville College

2009-10 Funding Partners 

Maryville College, Academic Affairs

Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation

Appalachian Community Fund

Independent Presbyterian Church (Birmingham, AL)