Tené Franklin, MS

Tené Hamilton Franklin is the Principal and Founder of Hamilton Franklin Strategies, LLC working with organizations to develop community engagement strategies to address health inequities and systems change. She previously served as the Executive Director of the Southeast United States for Health Leads where she leads program design, development, implementation, and operations. In this role, Tené also consults on grassroots community engagement and public health strategic approaches to addressing health equity in local communities. Before serving In this position, Tené served as the Health Leads Vice President of Health Equity & Stakeholder Engagement where she provided strategic, operational, and organizational leadership and grew capacity for intercultural competence, nurturance of diverse populations, and inclusive leadership across the organization.

Prior to joining Health Leads, Franklin served as the Minority Health Officer for the State of Tennessee. In this role, she was responsible for promoting continuous improvement for disparities elimination by enabling cooperation and collaboration among diverse communities and disparate populations with Tennessee Department of Health programs and services.

Tené serves as the Chair of the Metro Public Health Department Board of Health in Nashville, TN. She is also active in her community through a myriad of volunteer and advocacy efforts including the Tennessee State NAACP Health Chair; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.; Council on Black Health; the Meharry Medical College/Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center/Tennessee State University Cancer Partnership (MVTCP) and the Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core. Tené, a native of Chattanooga, TN, holds a Master’s degree in Genetic Counseling from Howard University and a Bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Virginia. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Davidson County, TN.