Missy Pankake

Missy has more than 25 years of marketing and communications experience and leads marketing and communication initiatives for the Tennessee Language Center. Her role includes advertising, public relations, brand identity and community relations to support TLC’s strategic goals at the local and state level.

Previously, she served as communications director at the nonprofit Bright Horizons Foundation for Children, where she supported fundraising and operations for programs that served homeless children and families. She also worked for Vanderbilt University’s Public Affairs Department, where she coordinated communications for the university’s multi-year greenhouse gas study and helped develop the myVU intranet for employees.

She is a magna cum laude graduate of Maryville College and has a master's in strategic communications from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.