Johari Matthews

Johari Matthews serves as the Vice President and Executive Director of ONE Community and Tennessee Titans Foundation with the Tennessee Titans. Entering into her third season, her role provides direct insight in elevating the Club’s community-driven priorities, supporting and driving engagement, and overseeing the Club’s philanthropic endeavors across Tennessee. Since joining the organization, Johari has worked to restructure the Club’s community involvement by using the latest announcement of the new stadium to establish a forward-facing multifaceted philanthropic platform known as ONE Community. An initiative created to serve many of Middle TN’s most underserved and historically marginalized communities, through partnerships and outcome-based programs the platform seeks to raise awareness, eliminate barriers, and provide resources in the areas of opportunity, neighborhoods, and education to create generational change. Prior to joining the Titans, Johari spent 18 years with the YMCA of Middle Tennessee in a number of transformative leadership roles, with the most recent being Executive Director of the Northwest Family YMCA. During her tenure, she was widely recognized for her collaborative work with The BlueCross BlueShield Foundation as they opened the first of its kind $6.5M state of the art, inclusive BlueCross BlueShield Healthy Place Park on its grounds.

A Nashville native, she is a proud alumna of Metro Nashville Public Schools and Tennessee State University. In her personal endeavors, she serves on various boards and committees including Corner to Corner, Nashville Public Radio, PENCIL Foundation, and The Community Foundation of Middle TN. Her commitment to community service can be seen through her passion for nonprofit and community engagement sector this extends itself to her involvement and membership with organizations such as Junior League of Nashville, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, and Rotary Club of Nashville. In 2020 Johari was named by the Nashville Business Journal as one of Nashville’s Top 40 Under 40 and most recently recognized as a 2024 ‘Ten People to Watch’. Out of all of the many hats that she wears, she is most proud of the hat that she gets to wear with her family as wife to Juvenile Court Clerk, Lonnell Matthews Jr., and mom to their two amazing kids.