Board Calendar

Althea Greene

District 2

Bishop Althea E. Greene is the chair of the Shelby County Board of Education. She was elected by her constituents in 2020, after being appointed to serve District II in 2019. She also chairs two committees within the board: Academic Performance and Evaluation Committees.

Greene was educated in the Memphis City Schools System, received her Bachelor of Science degree from LeMoyne Owen College, and earned her Master of Arts degree from Tusculum College.

Greene continued her studies and graduated from Tennessee School of Religion with a Bachelor of Theology and a Master of Theological Studies. In addition, she also received a Doctorate in Theology.

She retired from Shelby County Schools after 38 years of service and is currently the senior pastor of Real Life Ministries, where she has served for 20 years.

Greene has received numerous awards, including:

• SWAG Award by Phi Beta Sigma, Tau Iota Sigma Alumni Chapter
• Trailblazer in Education Award (April 15, 2023)
• Charter Champion Award: Local Policy Champion of the Year, 2022, presented by Tennessee Charter School Center
• Women of Worth Award for outstanding and dedicated service to business
• Exceptional Leadership Award, 2023
• Award of Excellence from WMCTV-5 and MATCU.
• Christian Educator of the Millennium sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Beta Epsilon Omega Chapter.
• Crystal Apple Teacher Award from WMC-TV.

Greene is also a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Other memberships include NAACP and SCLC. Her passions include teaching, preaching, reading, traveling, shopping and grilling.

Stephanie P. Love has lived and been active in North Memphis, Millington and unincorporated areas of Shelby County all her life. Love attended Millington Central High, studied Psychology at The University of Memphis and later became a licensed cosmetologist.

Love's advocacy began as a parent volunteer in August 2011 at Delano Head Start, where she noticed the unacceptable parking accommodations. This motivated her to begin directing traffic to ensure the safety of the children and parents. She was able to effectively advocate for an improved parking lot. Because of her passion and willingness to help, Love was elected to serve on the Shelby County Head Start Policy Council, where she later became vice chair.

Love also served as vice president of the Frayser Neighborhood Council—a community group born out of President Obama’s Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative in 2013. Love was elected to the Frayser Neighborhood Council as a resident May 4, 2013, and the group later selected her as vice president.

The Frayser Neighborhood Council has had success in helping to improve the quality of life in Frayser. Some of those successes include:

• Effectively advocating Memphis City Council for improvements to Denver Park—a once gang-ridden park taken back by neighbors,
• Getting approval from Memphis City Council for new sidewalks in front of Corning Elementary,
• Stopping a new trailer park development,
• Developing Frayser 2020—a plan to improve quality of life in Frayser,
• Planning of the Frayser Town Center, and
• Just recently, advocating with fellow Memphians to prevent a landfill from expanding next to an elementary school and other urban neighborhoods in Shelby County.

Love was elected to the Shelby County Board of Education in 2014 and later re-elected in August 2016. She currently serves as co-chair of the Community Outreach and Engagement Committee.

As a board member and parent of three school-aged children, Love knows and understands the challenges parents and children face as they relate to the constant changes in education. Love believes more can be accomplished when parents, school employees, district officials and all elected governing bodies work together.

Mauricio Calvo

District 5

Mauricio Calvo, appointed by the Shelby County Commission in July 2023, represents District 5 (Cordova) for the Shelby County Board of Education. With MSCS being the largest school district in Tennessee and one of the largest urban districts in the nation, with 200+ schools and more than 110,000 students, Calvo knows that the success of our students is one of the most critical issues impacting Memphis today and tomorrow.

Mexican by birth and Memphian by heart, Calvo leads Latino Memphis, an organization that ignites and accelerates upward mobility and opportunities for the Latinx community through social and legal services. He knows Shelby County will achieve collective success only when all community members move up. His impact model includes providing direct services, addressing systemic issues, and collaborating with cross-sector partners.

His proudest and most important role is being dad to Anna, Carolina, and Santiago—three leaders in the making.

Mauricio understands and lives diversity and representation as a Mexican-American and a member of the LGBTQA+ community. He attributes his passion and interest in many different things to his ADHD, learning that it can be a challenge but also a superpower. Normalizing and embracing these differences has allowed him to hyperfocus on multiple tasks at the same time.

He serves as a critical friend and thoughtful partner on the Board of UnidosUS, Hope Credit Union, Shelby Farms Conservancy, WeAreMemphis and many others. Mauricio is also a frequent media contributor on Latinx issues. His academic journey includes CBU, Lipscomb University, Boston College, and Georgetown. He is a Leadership Tennessee alumni, a Mosaic fellow and a graduate of the ProInspire Catalyst Collective.

Mauricio Calvo

District 5

Mauricio Calvo, appointed by the Shelby County Commission in July 2023, represents District 5 (Cordova) for the Shelby County Board of Education. With MSCS being the largest school district in Tennessee and one of the largest urban districts in the nation, with 200+ schools and more than 110,000 students, Calvo knows that the success of our students is one of the most critical issues impacting Memphis today and tomorrow.

Mexican by birth and Memphian by heart, Calvo leads Latino Memphis, an organization that ignites and accelerates upward mobility and opportunities for the Latinx community through social and legal services. He knows Shelby County will achieve collective success only when all community members move up. His impact model includes providing direct services, addressing systemic issues, and collaborating with cross-sector partners.

His proudest and most important role is being dad to Anna, Carolina, and Santiago—three leaders in the making.

Mauricio understands and lives diversity and representation as a Mexican-American and a member of the LGBTQA+ community. He attributes his passion and interest in many different things to his ADHD, learning that it can be a challenge but also a superpower. Normalizing and embracing these differences has allowed him to hyperfocus on multiple tasks at the same time.

He serves as a critical friend and thoughtful partner on the Board of UnidosUS, Hope Credit Union, Shelby Farms Conservancy, WeAreMemphis and many others. Mauricio is also a frequent media contributor on Latinx issues. His academic journey includes CBU, Lipscomb University, Boston College, and Georgetown. He is a Leadership Tennessee alumni, a Mosaic fellow and a graduate of the ProInspire Catalyst Collective.

Amber Huett-Garcia

District 8

Amber Huett-Garcia serves as the School Board representative for District 8.

Huett-Garcia began her career as a teacher at Ross Elementary. After teaching, she spent more than seven years at Teach for America, with responsibilities ranging from large-scale operations for a teacher training program, to corporate and foundation fundraising.

From there, Huett-Garcia served as a policy advisor in Shelby County’s Office of Education before working as a senior director of non-academic support strategy for one million K-12 students at the Tennessee Department of Education. She also concentrated on state health, policy and budget roles, including managing more than $13 billion in K-12 funds for former Illinois Governor Pat Quinn.

Huett-Garcia currently serves as the director of business development at Lemonada Media, one of the fastest-growing podcast companies in the country, with 26 shows and growing.

She is passionate about obesity care as an active volunteer and emeritus member of the National Board for the Obesity Action Coalition (OAC). She served nine years, including two years as chair, for more than 75,000 members. She is a founding member of the Global Obesity Patient Alliance (GOPA), where she represents the United States.

She is a 2018 recipient of Medtronic’s Bakken Invitation, an award given to individuals who have used their “extra life” to advocate.

Huett-Garcia enjoys traveling, cooking, and exercising when she’s not working or volunteering. She lives in East Memphis with her husband, Matt, and their daughter, Parker, an elementary student in Memphis-Shelby County Schools.

Kevin D. Woods

District 4

Kevin Woods is the Memphis market president for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, which serves more than 3.4 million members in the state and across the country.

In this role, Woods builds and supports key relationships with west Tennessee businesses. He also serves as a vital link between the Memphis business community and BlueCross sales and service teams.

Before joining BlueCross, he was executive director of Memphis’ Workforce Investment Network, which assists city and county organizations with recruiting new companies to Memphis and improving employment opportunities for area residents. Prior to that, he was director of career development and education services with New Horizons Computer Training Center in Memphis.

He earned a Master of Science in business administration and Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from the University of Memphis. He is a 2014 graduate of Leadership Memphis Executive Class, a New Memphis Fellow, as well as alum of the 2017-2018 class of Leadership Tennessee (Class V). He currently serves on the Leadership Tennessee Advisory Council.

Woods also serves on numerous boards.

• Shelby County School Board
• Memphis River Parks
• Shelby Farms Conservancy
• The Salvation Army
• United Way of the Mid-South
• Neighborhood Preservation, Inc. (NPI)
• TN Achieves Advisory Board