Cathy Gurley, CEO - You Have The Power

Cathy Gurley has served as CEO of You Have the Power (YHTP), a nonprofit that empowers victims of crime, since 2012.  Additionally, Cathy was a founding board member of the Nashville T.J. Martell Foundation. She has worked with Friends of Warner Park, McNeilly Center for Children, and StandUp2Cancer in addition to serving as a mentor at Tennessee Achieves and an adjunct professor at Middle Tennessee State University and Belmont University. Her writing brought her several national accolades including the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Cathy is currently a member of the Nashville Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Sexual Offender Treatment Board, Domestic Death Review Team, ACES of Nashville, and the Domestic Violence Death Review Board. Cathy’s communication skills have expanded YHTP’s community impact with programming and collaboration. As CEO, Cathy supervised the production of the documentary, “No Girl’s Dream”, used in our presentations on sex trafficking. Cathy also supervised the creation of the agency’s Youth Impact Curriculum, a cognitive-based workshop series designed to prevent further delinquency in at-risk youth, and, the newest YHTP curriculum, Succeeding Through Support: Responding to Domestic Violence in the Workplace. Additionally, over the last 25 years Cathy has served on several committees to raise funds and awareness for local DV shelters.