Adrienne White, CPA
Adrienne A. White is a SVP, Not-for-Profit Relationship Manager at SouthState Bank. Previously, she was VP of Strategy at Citizens Trust Bank. She joined that bank after working as the VP of Finance of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. Prior to The Center, she held a variety of finance roles at The Coca-Cola Company. She started the first four years of career at Ernst & Young LLP’s (EY) external audit services. Adrienne’s passion is community development, which drives her civic engagement.
Civic Engagement
Adrienne serves as Board Chair of Hands on Atlanta, an organization committed to mobilizing metro Atlantans to address pressing needs.
Adrienne has held numerous leadership positions in Georgia’s Democratic political ecosystem, including Campaign Chair for Bee Nguyen for Secretary of State, Vice Chair of Candidate Recruitment for the Democratic Party of Georgia and chairing Red Clay Democrats and Georgia’s WIN List. She also served as chair for Representative Bee Nguyen’s 2017 campaign and in the treasurer capacity for a Congressional and Statewide campaign. She also led several fundraising efforts for the DNC in multiple political cycles.
Adrienne’s focus on health & wellness drew her to a board position with the Atlanta Track Club. She co-founded the Atlanta chapter of Black Girls Run and served as regional ambassador over the southeast. Her interest in education led her to serve on Atlanta Public School’s audit committee and as board treasurer of an APS charter school.
Community Development Finance
Adrienne served as board treasurer for Grove Park Foundation, which guides an inclusive, holistic neighborhood revitalization effort focused on education, affordable housing, community health and wellness programs, economic development and the arts. Her key focus has been providing oversight of Grove Park Foundation’s collaborative and complex publicly-privately $50 million funded build of an Atlanta Public School Campus.
She serves on the advisory board of Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Atlanta, a national CDFI that revitalizes underserved neighborhoods and catalyzes opportunity. She is on the Community Foundation for Great Atlanta’s GOATL Social Impact Fund Investment Committee. White also served on the Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative’s COVID-19 grant and loan relief loan committees. These experiences give Adrienne a unique perspective of metro Atlanta’s community development landscape. She served on the board of the Atlanta Business League, where she served as public policy co-chair.
In 2018 she was recognized as one of 50 of Outstanding Atlanta’s awardees and a Women of Excellence by the Atlanta Tribune. In 2016 she was recognized by Atlanta Business Chronicle as one of the 40 Under 40 and has taken on various leadership roles in the Atlanta community including, Atlanta Business League, AIPAC’s Outreach Program, Outstanding Atlanta, Atlanta BeltLine Partnership’s YP Advisory Board, LEAD Atlanta, and New Leaders Council. Adrienne was recognized by the National Coalition of 100 Black Women as a Woman of Impact in April 2015.
Adrienne was a licensed certified public accountant in Georgia for 15 years and earned her Masters of Accountancy and Bachelor of Science in Commerce; Concentration in Accounting, from The University of Virginia.
She lives in Duluth, Georgia with her partner, Gwinnett County Commissioner Kirkland Carden, and their son Bleu Carden.