Board Calendar

Natalie McKinney

District 2

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.

Sable Otey

District 5

Sable Otey

District 5

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, where she had 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, managing over $13 billion in K-12 funds for former Illinois Governor Pat Quinn.

Huett-Garcia is the founder and owner of Amber Huett-Garcia Consulting, focusing on nonprofit operations and capacity building, grant and performance management, and more.

She is a global leader in obesity care as a member of the World Obesity Federation’s Board of Trustees, representing the patient's lived experience. In the United States, Huett-Garcia is 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 its 85,000 members. She is a founding director of the Global Obesity Patient Alliance (GOPA), where she represents the United States to help build capacity in patient advocacy organizations worldwide.

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

When she's not working or volunteering, Huett-Garcia enjoys traveling, cooking, listening to live music, and exercising. Her daughter Parker is a proud and thriving student in Memphis-Shelby County Schools.

Tamarques Porter

District 4