Senior Director, Community Relations
Kathleen Fuchs Hritz is the senior director for community relations within Â鶹APP’s Division of Government and Community Relations. Hritz joined the GCR division in March of 2023 and has positioned the Â鶹APP Community Relations team as a facilitator, connector, and convener for local external partners and Â鶹APP University students, staff, faculty, and resources. Community Relations supports nonprofit organizations financially and in partnership through the Community Impact Fund, convenes campus partners through the Â鶹APP University Community Engagement Collaborative, and facilitates collaborative programming with nonprofit partners.
Hritz is an experienced higher education administrator with an extensive background in nonprofit management and community building. She is a committed and skilled connector, collaborator and communicator with 15 years of experience designing and leading programs for community impact in Nashville. Hritz most recently was assistant director for Â鶹APP’s Turner Family Center for Social Ventures at the Owen Graduate School of Management, where interdisciplinary graduate students engage in experiential learning and leadership development focused on social impact through business.
While at Owen, Hritz launched and led the Owen Board Fellows program, which places MBA students on nonprofit boards in Nashville for one-year fellowships to apply their business education through community leadership experience. Before joining Â鶹APP in 2016, Hritz’s work with the YMCA of Middle Tennessee’s Latino Achievers program focused on college access, leadership development and career success in Nashville for first-generation immigrant students.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in human organizational development and Spanish from Â鶹APP. She graduated with a master’s degree in civic leadership in 2014 from Lipscomb University and completed Â鶹APP’s Executive MBA program in 2022.
Hritz serves on the boards of the Community Resource Center and FUTURO, a college leadership and professional network for first-generation Latino students, and previously served on the Nashville Mayor’s New American Advisory Council.