IC Imagine is governed by the non-profit organization Invest Collegiate Imagine, Inc.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
- Establishing and monitoring the school’s academic outcomes
- Establishing and monitoring management compliance with policies
- Overseeing and approving the use of operational finances
20-21 Board Meeting Calendar
All meetings are open to the public. During COVID-19, IC Imagine Board Meetings are conducted via Zoom. The link for the meetings is below if you would like to attend.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://icimagine-org.zoom.us/j/89735775125?pwd=cWdXazRjRy9ESlZwRlpSZkVhTy9nUT09
Meeting ID: 897 3577 5125
Passcode: 617950
- Thursday, September 16th, 2021, 5:30 pm General Meeting
- Thursday, October 21st, 2021, 5:30 pm General Meeting
- Thursday, November 18th, 2021, 5:30 pm General Meeting
If you have any questions or concerns you can email: board@icimagine.org.
Board Members
Adam Kissel – Board Chair
Adam Kissel is an Atlanta-area native who relocated to Asheville in 2013. He completed a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of Georgia in 2009 and a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership in 2013 from Central Michigan University, with a focus in Charter School Administration. He taught music and choir at the secondary level for several years, and has sung and toured with numerous world-class ensembles including the Atlanta Opera Chorus and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus. He also has extensive professional experience managing customer-facing teams and contact centers. He is passionate about 21st-century curriculum, arts education, animal welfare, business ethics, and modern workplace design and policy. In his spare time, he enjoys running in Asheville’s beautiful greenways, hiking throughout western North Carolina, baking, writing buggy apps with ugly code, and spending as much time as possible with his wife, Stephanie, and their two pets, Diego and Pasha.
Drew Power – Vice Chair
Drew grew up outside of Atlanta Georgia before attending The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). While at Ole Miss, Drew earned both his undergraduate and graduate degree in accounting. He relocated to Memphis, Tennessee where he took a position with Dixon Hughes Goodman. During this time Drew, obtained his CPA license, and worked as a consultant assisting pharmaceutical companies with business combinations and spin offs. In 2014, Drew transferred to DHG’s Asheville office. While in Asheville Drew has worked closely with local and tribal governments and school boards. In his free time Drew enjoys everything Western North Carolina has to offer.
Caleb Coaplen – Secretary
Caleb is originally from Louisville Kentucky. He started college at Montana State University in Bozeman Montana and graduated from the University of Louisville with a Bachelor’s of Fine Art in Photography. Caleb frequented the Western North Carolina area as a child and young adult to kayak and explore the outdoors. During college he was a kayak instructor and camp counselor at Camp Mondamin in Tuxedo, NC. After the summer of 2001 he moved to Asheville, and except for a 2 year job in Pennsylvania, has been here ever since. He has worked in the outdoor sports industry and furniture/antique industry but eventually got his real estate license in 2009. He currently works for Beverly Hanks & Associates as a Residential Real Estate Agent. He and his wife Megan have 2 boys and their oldest is a champion at IC Imagine. They can often be found on the numerous trails and rivers in the area. Caleb is honored to be part of the school as both a board member and parent and strives to make the educational experience and environment the best possible for all champions and their families.
Mia Strauss – Treasurer
Mia Strauss is originally from Pennsylvania. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park and following undergraduate school she attended the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and spent some summers living and conducting research in a remote field camp setting. Also while in Alaska she and her husband lived and worked as teaching parents in a home with at-risk teens. She and her husband relocated to Asheville in 2006 and couldn’t think of a better place to live. After moving here and trying to find a job to fit with her family she began bookkeeping, which led to general business management and marketing. Currently, Mia is self employed assisting business owners with bookkeeping, finance and marketing needs.
Mia has 2 children at IC Imagine and has been a parent since the doors were opened in 2014. She finds it really refreshing to have her children in an environment that is always striving to do what’s best for the students and willing to change and make adjustments as needed. In her free time Mia enjoys hiking, cooking and traveling. She is excited to be an ICI board member to help build a solid foundation for the school for years to come.
Lorraine Carver
Lorraine grew up in Western North Carolina and attended public school in Sylva, NC throughout her elementary, middle and high school years. She attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and majored in Public Relations and Political Science. Lorraine’s career started in Washington DC with a public relations firm focused on the technology sector. After a move to Raleigh, she joined a software company, RegEd, that has allowed her to grow professionally into an executive role. Lorraine has held many roles during her sixteen years of tenure, including Chief Operating Officer, EVP of Sales and her current role as EVP, Sales Operations. Lorraine has served on the board of a number of local nonprofits, including the PTO for IC Imagine (Imagine Community Partners). Lorraine and her husband have three children who attend IC Imagine. Lorraine is honored and and excited to help IC Imagine grow as she believes in the mission and vision of the school.
Rose Jordan
A native of New Jersey, Rose went into the USAF after HS graduation. She attended technical school at Sheppard AFB for a communication specialist position in both South Dakota and Taiwan. After discharge, she took her skills to the Department of State Foreign Service and lived in Rome, Italy for four years. For twenty years, she had an IT career including her own training and support business and a Network Administrator position at Brown University. After adopting her first child, her passion grew for child welfare and at-risk youth. She began migrating her teaching skills to Moms on Welfare, Job Corp Youth, an alternative school setting, and taught multi-level GED at a local community college. She soon earned a BASW in a child welfare collaborative scholar program, and a masters degree in clinical social work. Throughout her careers, she has always had a passion for teaching, writing, travel, volunteering and learning. She is looking forward to serving on the IC Imagine Board. A Smoky Mountain Elementary, where she tutored at-risk youth and provided behavior intervention, she had the opportunity to teach Goldie Hawn’s MindUP program. She saw the benefits of teaching children how to regulate their emotions, become mindfully aware, and improve focus and empathy.
Originally from Virginia Beach, Mark is a Virginia Tech graduate and the founder and principal architect at Vellum Architecture & Design in Asheville. Prior to relocating to Asheville in 2015, Mark spent 15 years in the mountains of Colorado. He is a founding board member for the Aspen Young Professionals Association, and has volunteered for other non-profits such as Habitat For Humanity. An avid traveler, Mark has traveled to over forty countries, lived abroad in Spain, and spent significant time working in Italy. In his free time, he enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife Heather, and their son Quinton. Mark strongly believes that there is not a single “one-size fits all” approach to education, and greatly values what IC Imagine provides for our community.
Dena Rutter
Prior to landing in the mountains she studied Visual Communication Design at The Ohio State University and in Berlin, followed by a stint living overseas in South East China where she was a package designer. In the past she’s designed for TEDxAsheville, served as Vice President on the Asheville Affiliates Board and is a member of Asheville’s AIGA chapter. In addition to running her design studio, she is a mother of two, gardener, hiker, and water aerobics enthusiast.
ICI Board Documents
All applicable financial documents are publicly posted to EMMA. For other questions, contact finance@icimagine.org.
ICI Approved Board Meeting Minutes
Tuesday August 3, 2021, Special Meeting
Thursday July 22, 2021, General Meeting
Thursday June 17, 2021, General Meeting
Thursday June 3, 2021, Special Meeting
Thursday May 20, 2021, General Meeting
Thursday April 15, 2021, General Meeting
Thursday March 18, 2021, General Meeting
Thursday March 4, 2021, Special Meeting
Thursday February 18, 2021, General Meeting
Thursday February 11, 2021, Special Meeting
Thursday January 14, 2021, General Meeting
Thursday December 17, 2020, Special Meeting
Thursday November 19, 2020, General Meeting
Thursday October 15, 2020, General Meeting
Thursday September 24, 2020, Special Meeting
Thursday September 17, 2020, General Meeting
Thursday August 20, 2020, General Meeting
Thursday, July 23, 2020, Special Meeting
Thursday July 14, 2020, General Meeting
Tuesday, June 11, 2020, General Meeting
Thursday, May 21, 2020, General Meeting
Wednesday, May 6, 2020, Special Meeting
Sunday, April 19, 2020, Special Meeting
Thursday, April 16, 2020, General Meeting
Monday, April 6, 2020, Special Meeting
Thursday, March 19, 2020, General Meeting
Thursday, February 20, 2020, General Meeting
Thursday, January 16, 2020, General Meeting
Thursday, November 21, 2019, General Meeting
Thursday, October 17, 2019, General Meeting
Tuesday, September 24, 2019, Special Meeting
Thursday, September 19, 2019 General Meeting
Thursday, August 22, 2019, Annual Meeting
Tuesday, July 16, 2019, General Meeting
Thursday, June 20, 2019, General Meeting
Thursday, May 16, 2019, General Meeting
Friday, May 3, 2019, Special Meeting
Thursday, April 18th, 2019, General Meeting
Thursday, March 21st, 2019, General Meeting
Thursday, February 21st, 2019, General Meeting
Thursday, January 17th, 2019, General Meeting
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018, Special Meeting
Thursday, November 15th, 2018, General Meeting
Thursday, October 18th, 2018, General Meeting
Thursday, September 20th, 2018, General Meeting
Thursday, August 23rd, 2018, General Meeting
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018, Special Meeting
Thursday, July 26th, 2018, Special Meeting Board Retreat
Thursday, July 19th, 2018, Special Meeting
Friday, June 29th, 2018, Special Meeting
Monday, June 12, 2018, Annual Meeting
Friday June 8, 2018, Special Meeting
Tuesday, May 29, 2018, Special Meeting
Thursday, May 17, 2018, General Meeting
Monday, May 7, 2018, Special Meeting
Thursday, April 19, 2018, General Meeting
Thursday, March 15, 2018, General Meeting
Thursday, February 15, 2018, General Meeting
January 29, 2018, Special Meeting
January 18, 2018, General Meeting
January 2, 2018, Special Meeting
November 20, 2017, Special Meeting
November 15, 2017, General Meeting
October 12, 2017, General Meeting
September 15, 2017, Organizational Meeting