Common Ground Planning Team
The Common Ground planning team includes:
- Lasandra Barksdale, The Commercial Appeal, marketing research analyst
- Kenya Bradshaw, community activist
- Nancy Coffee, The Leadership Academy, President and CEO
- Rabbi Micah Greenstein, Temple Israel
- Daniel Kiel, University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, Adjunct Professor
- Tarrin McGhee, New Path, program manager
- Chris Peck, The Commercial Appeal, Editor
- Jack Peck, Clear Channel Television, Vice President and General Manager
- Beverly Robertson, National Civil Rights Museum, President
- Ray Rico, Ray Rico Freelance
- Cris Stovall, Girl Scouts of the Mid-South, Asst. Exec. Director
- Wendi Thomas, The Commercial Appeal, metro columnist
- Darryl Tukufu, Crichton College, Vice President for Academic Affairs; Associate Professor of Urban Studies
- Leah Wells, researcher and community activist
- David Williams, Leadership Memphis, President/CEO
- Lisa Moore Willis, BRIDGES, Vice President
- Russ Wigginton, Rhodes College, Vice-President for College Relations