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My vision for Knoxville is to be a thriving, engaged, and supportive community where innovation meets tradition. A city where businesses, education, and culture flourish, and a community full of southern hospitality that remains a wholesome place to raise a family. Our streets will be safe, our infrastructure resilient, and our citizens empowered to partner together to continue to build an even better and brighter future for Knoxville.

The food scene has become extremely impressive over the last few years.

I would try to ensure that our infrastructure keeps pace with and supports the growing population we are seeing in our wonderful city. As we continue to see an influx of people moving to this area, do we have adequate housing? Do we have transportation and road systems to support a city our size? Do we have enough schools and enough first responders to accommodate all Knox County residents?

While it may sound cliche, I love football Saturdays in Knoxville. I have so many wonderful memories of spending time with great friends, having a blast at tailgates, and now teaching my kids how to enjoy Saturdays in the South.

JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century; Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (I like to have a fiction and non-fiction going at the same time)

"Leave something a little better than you found it." - My aunt Barbara - While it seems simple, there is a lot of wisdom packed into that statement. I think often, especially as leaders, we want to boil the ocean and then get disappointed in ourselves when we don't immediately see incredible, life-changing results in every single thing we do. If we would simply strive to make an incremental and meaningful impact each day, I think we would surprise ourselves and just how much difference that would make in our organizations, our families, and our community.

What you think matters right now, does not matter at all. It's the things you aren't really paying attention to that do matter. Perfect grades, being the most popular, having the right clothes - you will not care about or remember any of that a few years from now. Love and respect your parents, be a good and loyal friend, challenge yourself - everything will eventually fall into place and turn out exactly how it is supposed to be.