Jolie and her daughter, Kylie, on one of their many treasured road trips!
At the Speakers' Reception honoring our 2019 Annual Luncheon keynote, Emilio Cabrero, having one of the best laughs of her life in the famous Men's Room at The Hermitage Hotel with Wendi Donahue of IIDA TN and Kathryn Branch of Global Furniture Group.
Five of Jolie's favorite things in one place; dogs, Better Cities for Pets™ program work, reclaiming public space with friends and PARK(ing) Day in Nashville!
Jolie Ayn Yockey has spent over twenty years managing and consulting with organizations of all sizes. Jolie comes to us after serving as Marketing Director with Nashville Farmers’ Market in which she developed and executed event, communication and marketing programming. She is the founder of Nashville’s first Night Market and helmed the opening of local food business incubator, Grow Local Kitchen. In previous work with Whole Foods Market, Jolie served as Marketing Team Leader overseeing creative design, community relations, donation and sponsorship programs, events and classes. Jolie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication, 32 hours in Masters of Business Administration from Indiana University, and over 500 hours of continuing education. She enjoys all things food, spending time with her daughter and all dogs!
What Jolie does at the Design Center:
As Director of Strategic Partnerships, Jolie helps guide, grow and maintain sustaining partnerships and programs for our organization in a myriad of ways. Jolie’s passion is in efforts to honor and grow rich relationships, win-win connections and outcomes between the Civic Design Center and organizations of all types and capacities. A special focus is in overseeing our Design With Pets in Mind initiative founded in our collaborative work with Better Cities for Pets™, a Mars Petcare program.
A few of Jolie’s favorite moments and projects include:
Zena Howard’s Urban Design Forum talk and presentation we did in partnership with Frist Art Museum. The way Zena processes and leads design choices such as the National Museum of African American History & Culture; Motown Museum expansion in Detroit are inspirational.
Connecting and learning about organizational and program partners of all types, sizes and locations.
Overseeing the Better Cities for Pets Grant and airport certification programs. Connecting with cities and helping them in all efforts to support pets, pet owners and non-pet owners alike.
All PechaKucha events- getting to hear people’s perspectives and stories (and you can learn a lot in 20 slides x 20 seconds)!