Prior to joining the Original Six Foundation as executive director, Kara Gormley Meador helped global, regional and local businesses, nonprofits and foundations tell their stories in a variety of ways as director of media and content strategy at NP Strategy. Kara’s path included creating and running her own communications and marketing business for 8 years, but her most visible roles were as an award-winning broadcast journalist and news anchor at NBC affiliates in Raleigh, N.C. and Columbia, S.C. Kara has served as an adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications and at South Carolina Honors College. A founding partner of SC WIL (Women in Leadership) Kara gives back to the community in a variety of ways. She contributed to the book Faces of Freedom, featuring stories on veterans from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Proceeds from the book were donated to the Wounded Warrior Project and Fischer House. Kara currently lives in Lexington with her husband and three sons, Dalton, Evan and Cooper.

Nick Washington has been the Program Director for the Original Six Foundation since 2016. Nick received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Francis Marion University. With nearly two decades in the field, he has extensive nonprofit and youth development experience. He is also an alumnus of the Fred R. Sheheen Non-Profit Leadership Institute at Francis Marion University. In addition, Nick is a graduate of South Carolina Afterschool Leaders Empowered (SCALE), a year-long fellowship developing highly effective leaders in afterschool and summer learning. This program is hosted by the Riley Institute at Furman University with support from the South Carolina Department of Education. He has also served on several committees, such as the School Improvement Council at Logan Elementary and the South Carolina Alliance of Black School Educators Youth Conference planning committee.

A lifelong resident of Columbia, Alecia Kelly Milling opened her accounting practice more than 15 years ago with particular emphasis on small businesses and charitable organizations. Prior to that, she held positions in benefits administration, customer service, accounting, and executive administration.

Alecia graduated Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Carolina and an associate’s degree from Midlands Technical College.