Jessica Culpepper is the Executive Director of FarmSTAND, a legal advocacy nonprofit focused on fair food systems. In her role, Jessica is responsible for overseeing the organization's board and leadership, strategic planning, and program development, ensuring the alignment of FarmSTAND’s mission with its day-to-day operations. Her fight for a fair food system began at her alma mater, Warren Wilson College, a work college with a sustainable working farm and garden. 

Most recently, she was the Director of the Public Justice Food Project where she grew the program from a single staff attorney to a team of eleven organizers, lawyers, and paralegals. As a lawyer, Jessica worked primarily on fighting pollution alongside impacted communities and advocating for federal and state policy reform. Jessica has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.S. in History and Political Science from Warren Wilson College, where she met her husband Justin Martin. 

Jessica is active in her Caldwell Presbyterian Church community where her husband is a pastor, and serves as board President for Socially Responsible Agriculture Project and as a trustee on the executive committee for Warren Wilson College. She and her husband live in Davidson, NC with their four children and two rescue dogs. 

Ed Franklin has served as Board Chair since 2012 and is currently the Senior Vice President at Bank of America, where he holds the position of Business Controls Manager for Global Marketing. In this role, Ed is responsible for ensuring compliance with internal policies and external regulations for over thirty processes encapsulating producing creative, approving creative, and executing creative in various marketing channels. 

Previously, Ed has held various roles including Supplier Diversity Manager, Senior Program Manager, and Property and Project Manager. Prior to joining Bank of America, he worked at Jacobs Engineering, providing construction sourcing support for AMTRAK’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 projects in the eastern United States. He also served at Wachovia/Wells Fargo as the sourcing lead for the 50-story Duke Energy Center project, the administrative office portfolio, and the international portfolio. Additionally, Ed was the global team lead for Intel Corporation’s Facilities and Materials Services team, offering construction sourcing expertise for semiconductor and assembly/test projects in the United States, Ireland, Israel, China, Costa Rica, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

Ed holds an MBA from the Marshall School of Business and a BS in Civil Engineering from the Viterbi School of Engineering, both at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is an active member of the New Generation of African American Philanthropists of Charlotte and the Mecklenburg Community Church. Ed resides in Huntersville, NC with his three sons, two of whom still attend Corvian.

Heather Hucks serves as Vice President of Consumer Connections for Coca-Cola Consolidated.

In her role, Heather oversees Coca-Cola Consolidated’s major prestige properties, digital media,

and brand marketing throughout the bottler’s 14 state territory. Within the sponsorship

division, Heather’s team manages close to 70 prestige sponsorship properties including Pro

Sports, Colleges & Universities, Amusement and Entertainment.

Heather began her career with Moroch and Associates, an advertising agency, where she

managed the McDonalds account for the Southeast franchise territories. She joined Coca-Cola

Consolidated in 2001 and has lead multiple functions within Marketing including Experiential,

Marketing Analysis, Project Management, Communications and Asset Management. In her

current role, Heather creates and stewards long term marketing strategies with key partners

that connect consumers to the best brands in the world. She negotiates Consolidated’s largest

prestige contracts and is passionate about building connections with the next generation of

Coca-Cola consumers.

Heather studied Human Services at Elon University and studied for her Masters in

Communication Studies at the University of NC Charlotte. She is chair and co-founder of Bee

Mighty, a non profit organization that helps families who have babies in the NICU. Heather has

been a trustee of Speedway Children’s Charity for 15 years and serves as a board member for

Corvian Community School. Heather often volunteers at the Ronald McDonald House of

Charlotte.

Heather was born and raised in North Carolina where she lives with her husband, Darrin, and

their son, Tucker (12) and daughter, Molly (7). She loves Carolina Panthers football, Tarheel

basketball, cooking, traveling and writing.

Kelley Impoco joined Corvian Community School’s Board of Directors in March 2024 as Treasurer. Kelley works at LPL Financial as Senior Vice President of Technology Risk and Advanced Analytics. She is responsible for building out a mature Risk function in data, privacy and technology as well as strengthening the firm’s data analytics capabilities.

Previously, Kelley served as a Senior Data Audit Analytics Leader at Wells Fargo covering Wholesale Banking, Internationals, Process Automation, and Operational Reporting. She was responsible for the development and execution of the Internal Audit Data Analytics plan using analytics capabilities within risk based audits, continuous assessment of risk, and automated tools used in the department.

 

Kelley has over 20 years of financial experience, holding a B.S. in Accounting. As the Treasurer of Corvian Community School, she is committed to ensuring the financial health and stability of our educational institution through Financial Stewardship, Budget Planning, and Finance Committee Leadership experience to the role.

 

Kelley and her husband Joe live in Huntersville, NC with their daughters and enjoy spending time at the beach with their two Frenchie’s. They are originally from Massachusetts and moved to Huntersville, NC in 2014.

Drew Polly has served on the Board of Directors since 2021. Drew works in the Elementary Education program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. As part of his role Drew teaches courses in Elementary Education focused on mathematics teaching, instructional planning, and assessment. Drew is involved with various service activities in the state, as he supports teachers, schools, and school districts in the Charlotte region with their mathematics instruction through professional learning workshops and meetings. Drew also partners with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and their partner Technical Outreach to Public Schools, as an item and test form reviewer for the mathematics End of Grade tests given to students in North Carolina. As part of his job Drew also conducts research and has published over 80 articles and book chapters focused on teacher learning and has collaborated on over $9 million dollars worth of grant funds to support projects related to teacher learning in mathematics.

Drew and his wife Angela live in Davidson, NC with their daughters Breleigh and Journey, and their dog Ollie Polly. They enjoy spending time outdoors, playing board games, and reading books together. In his spare time Drew coaches competitive soccer for the Charlotte Independence Soccer Club.

Michelle Spencer joined Corvian Community School’s Board of Directors in June 2022. She works at Vannoy Construction where she is part of an onsite construction management team focused on community and healthcare projects around the Charlotte area. She enjoys being a part of projects that provide essential care and services to enhance our community. Prior to working at Vannoy, Michelle
worked in architecture in the San Francisco Bay area and Chicago where she also focused primarily on the community and healthcare sector prior to moving to Charlotte. She took several years off while her two children were younger. She took the opportunity to be an active part of their elementary school’s PTA and volunteering for their classes.

Michelle holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Kent State University. Additionally, she holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley. She was licensed as an Architect in 2005.

Michelle met her husband Michael while they were both studying architecture. They reside in Huntersville, NC with their two children and two dogs. They love living in the Lake Norman area and have lived there since 2009.