The Hilliard Institute

The Hilliard Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation offering sensory education programing, experiential learning, and academic research and publishing while also supporting philanthropic initiatives through fundraising and educational training and activities—all under the umbrella of the concept of Educational Wellness. 

The Hilliard Institute. 4440 Savage Pointe Drive. Franklin, TN 37064

Email Dr. K. Mark Hilliard at mark.hilliardinstitute@gmail.com

or Professor Jessa R. Sexton at thehilliardpress@gmail.com.

Creative Director and Illustrators

Whitnee Clinard

Creative Director, The Hilliard Institute

whitnee.clinard@gmail.com 

Whitnee Clinard began designing books for Dr. Hilliard and Professor Sexton in 2009. She was the lead designer at O'More Publishing for two years before her graduation in 2011, directing the graphic design of books and marketing material and training her student successors. 

During her time at O’More College of Design, Whitnee was active in two organizations, graduating as a member of the esteemed President’s Society of Fellows and Scholars and receiving her certificate for completion of the Townsend Institute for Global Competency. While in this program, she traveled to Boston, Massachusetts.

Clinard joined The Hilliard Institute in its formation in 2014. She keeps busy in various fields of design including her full-time job at ProfitStars and her own business: Called Creative. Whitnee, husband Jerry, son Hayden, and their two dogs live in Nashville, Tennessee.  

Jack Sexton

Illustrator, The Hilliard Press

Bio coming soon.

Anastasia Morozova

Illustrator, The Hilliard Press

Anastasia Morozova moved to Tennessee from Moldova, a small eastern European country, in 2008. With no prior ability to speak the English language, she attended the International English Institute in Nashville. She quickly picked up English; in six months she was at college level.

Anastasia received her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Fashion Design from O’More College of Design in 2012. For her senior collection, she won O’More Fashion Show Look Book Award. Through her college education Anastasia painted, drew, and illustrated artworks to help support her college experience. Her painting of the campus’s feature building, the Abbey Leix Mansion, became a key piece in marketing and décor for the college. She was the sole illustrator of the college press’s children’s book Rose-Pie and paNASH Style owner’s second edition of Advance Your Image: Putting Your Best Foot Forward Never Goes Out of Style and has provided illustrations for two other children’s books as well: With Your Fresh Thoughts and Live the Blessing.

During her time at O’More College of Design, Anastasia was active in two organizations, graduating as a member of the esteemed President’s Society of Fellows and Scholars and receiving her certificate for completion of the Townsend Institute for Global Competency. While in this program, she traveled to Boston, Massachusetts, and Cherokee, North Carolina.

After graduating O’More, she had opportunity to work as an in house designer and stylist side by side with Christiev Alphin, a well-known Nashville stylist. At EverythingVisual and LoveEverybody she assisted the creative director with photo and video shoots, co-designed and created custom pieces for music artists Ross Holmes of Mumford and Sons, Big Kenny of Big & Rich, Miranda Lambert, People Magazine, Keifer Thompson of Thompson Station, Kristyn and Keith Getty, North 40, and Randy Houser among many others; oversaw day-to-day production and directed interns; and designed and managed multiple creative projects for local retail boutiques.

Currently Morozova studies at Belmont University to acquire her M.Ed. with a focus in Learning Organizational Change and Leadership. Through this program, she is writing a thesis on global competency that will be published by Hilliard Press. Because of her diverse knowledge and talents, she has been selected to intern with the non-profit The Hilliard Institute during her last semester of graduate studies. During this internship, she will collaborate with Dr. David Woodfine, retired Blenheim Palace butler and University of Oxford, Harris-Manchester College, High Steward, to coordinate British-culture events and speaking engagements and to illustrate one of his latest books.

She is also presently developing her own small business. Her passion for fashion design and the environment is brewing into a clothing and accessories company named Bittu. In close collaboration with her brother Dennis, Anastasia’s vision for Bittu is to recycle clothes to maintain the ingrained and aged character with a modern retrofit.



Rehanna Mae Grant

Illustrator, Hilliard Press

Rehanna Mae Grant is a fashion designer and artist from Greenbrier, Tennessee. While a student at O’More College of Design in Franklin, Tennessee, her junior line was selected to be photographed by the O’More Research Academy, of which she became a member. During her membership, she was specifically chosen to work on a fashion line called Jack and Lola. She graduated in 2014 with her BFA. Her illustrations are published in Join Me for Afternoon Tea, ABCs of Etiquette for Young People, and Live the Blessing, and Stories of Enchantment. She currently teaches fashion illustration at Belmont University.