Rialto Advisory Board

Dr. Bridget Blake

First Lady, Office of the President, Georgia State University

Scott D. Brown

Community Affairs, Georgia-Pacific, LLC

Dr. Curtis Byrd

Special Advisor to the Provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Senior Director of DEI for Faculty Affairs, Georgia State University

W. Imara Canady

AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Wanda Davila

Secretary, Rialto Advisory Board and Owner, El Patio Pop-Up Shop

Rita Tené Ellison

Commercial Real Estate Advisor, T. Dallas Smith & Company, LLC

Christopher Escobar

Executive Director, Atlanta Film Society

Rodney Gibbs

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution senior director of strategy and innovation, through which he created the AJC Live events program and leads its newsletter, video and podcasting efforts.

Jo Ann Haden-Miller

Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau, Director, Partner Activation and Engagement and ACVB Foundation, again named Rialto Advisory Board Vice-Chair. (Haden-Miller has served on the board for 15 years).

Christin Hewitt

CFO of Georgia’s Own Credit Union, where she was previously senior vice president of finance and credit. She previously held leadership roles as vice president and corporate banking portfolio manager with Regions Bank and Synovus, respectively.

Randy Hyman Shapiro

Retired Regional Counsel of the FAA Southern Region Headquarters (her 14^th year)

Morima “Mo” Ivory

Professor and Director of Center for Entertainment, Sports and Intellectual Property, Georgia State University’s College of Law; Director, Popular Culture Collective at Georgia State, and newly named Rialto Advisory Board Chair (her second year)

Michael Mauldin

CEO of Mauldin Brand, Inc., AC/VC, the Black American Music Association chairman and Co-Founder of the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame.

A former president of Columbia Records, he directed the early careers of Destiny’s Child, Alicia Keys and the Fugees. He also helped his son, Jermaine Dupri, to establish Atlanta-based So So Def Recordings.

Munir Meghjani