In-Schools Outreach Director, Karen E. Reynolds, is an award winning singer songwriter and East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame Songwriting Inductee with national credits to her name and has been a featured performer in the Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival for the past 21 years. Over that period she has dedicated herself to building and sculpting this program. Due to her extensive background as a respected music industry consultant and having taught workshops and music educational courses for a variety of universities and music conferences or organizations, she is as proficient in the class room as she is onstage.
The Frank Brown Foundation Board of Directors, voted Karen into this position with the fullest confidence that she is a leader with experience and passion for this program and will continue to be an excellent steward of the Foundation’s mission to provide this community service. Per FBISF Board Member, Gary Rogers, “The board is excited to have Karen serve as the Director for this important extention of the Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival. Her leadership and experience are fundamental to the growth and integrity of the program, as well as, in fostering critical community support and partners who share and fully realize the Frank Brown Foundations’s vision to provide opportunty to area youth.”