Green Interchange - About - Green Interchange Inc

Our Mission

Green Interchange’s mission is to plant trees and establish and sustain natural systems for healthier communities, economies, and quality of life. We plant trees near roadways, waterways and in other public and private spaces. We currently operate in Tennessee with a vision of offering our programs nationally in the future. Learn more about our mission, our work, and our impact.

Board of Directors

Nikki Smith, Board Chair

Smith is a Nashville native with a Master of Science in Sustainability from Lipscomb University. She specializes in relationship building and has spent more than eight years leading recruitment and engagement efforts for organizations in the healthcare space. She has also supported environmental non-profits with marketing and fundraising efforts for the betterment of our community.

Robert Yates, Board Treasurer

Bob is managing partner of Thurman Campbell Group, CPAs. He has served on several foundation boards and consulted with many others during his 34 year CPA career.

Jim Delanis, Board Member

Over 40 years of experience in resolving business disputes by litigation, arbitration or mediation.

Specialties: Business litigation including contract disputes, banking and commercial paper, trade secrets, intellectual property, state procurement, Tennessee tax and administrative litigation, arbitration and mediation.

Randall Moore, Board Member

Since 1991, I have worked in lots of areas of Information Technology; from EDI and ERP software support; to database design. I love designing and building out the tasks required to get a database from concept to function. I have recent Azure experience with hosted databases, Power BI, and Data Factory.

Leadership

John McFadden
CEO

McFadden has led municipalities, organizations and individuals in forest restoration and environmental education. He’s raised over $4 million towards conservation efforts and led thousands of volunteers in stream restoration and reforestation, planting over 700,000 trees. His work has earned many awards including 4 Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Awards.

Gretchen Hagle
Director of Marketing & Development

Hagle helped to launch numerous tree planting events in TN including 10K Tree Day and Putting The Tree In Country campaigns. She brings experience leading tree planting events and working with Marketing and Development for two TN non-profit organizations.

Joy Giggie
Director of Corporate Relations

Joy brings over 20 years of cross-functional corporate experience, including Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Euro RSCG Discovery (Havas Creative) and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. As a recently certified Tennessee Naturalist, Joy is passionate about Green Interchange’s mission and thrilled to utilize her strategic mindset and business acumen to help plant more trees across Tennessee!

Julie Hornsby

Julie Hornsby is a Civil Engineering graduate from Vanderbilt University. With a passion for problem-solving and combating climate change, she recently pursued a Master's in Engineering for Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge. Now back in the Southeast, she wants to pave a new career path in sustainability consulting, driving positive change with innovative solutions for companies that wish to decrease the negative environmental impacts that their activities have on the planet. Julie's goal is to build a more sustainable future where humans, animals, and all living beings can live in a harmonious relationship filled with respect and gratitude for one another.

An Idea Into Action - Congressman Mark Green

"As an avid fly fisherman and outdoorsman, I care deeply about our environment. Unfortunately today, some of the extreme proposals out there have forced conservatives out of the discussion when we should very much be in it. I came up with this idea as an easy way for everyday Tennesseans from both sides of the aisle to come together and take a small first step toward protecting our environment, and beautifying our interchanges too. Because of House Ethics rules, I can't be a part of this project directly, but I am honored that this team has launched my idea, the Green Interchange, and I can't wait to see the impact they make."