Kristen Swann is the President and Chief Executive Officer at the United Way of South Central Tennessee. Swann has worked at your local United Way for more than ten years, in various fields such as marketing, events, and community impact. Prior to her role as CEO, she served as Vice President of Collective Impact and Strategic Initiatives for three years, where she oversaw the implementation of the Bold Goals 2030 initiative focusing on the four strategic impact areas needed in our local community: financial stability, early childhood education, health, and substance abuse.
Kristen Swann shares, “I am honored to serve as the next President and CEO of our local United Way. Our staff, board, and volunteers work diligently in partnership with so many organizations that share the same goal of making our community a place where all can thrive. I am grateful to contribute in a small way to that effort and will work whole-heartedly to ensure we continue to collectively respond to the biggest challenges that face us.”
Swann resides in Murfreesboro with her husband, Travis, and daughter, Charlie. In her free time, she loves trying new restaurants, spending time outdoors, and enjoying time with family.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt