Two Presbyterian College alumni are rising to the challenge of governing and serving their beloved alma mater.

Columbia attorney Whitney Harrison ’07 and Greenville business leader Chad Prashad ’02 joined the PC Board of Trustees this spring.

“I am tremendously excited that Whitney and Chad have graciously agreed to join PC’s talented board of trustees,” said college president Dr. Matthew vandenBerg. “They are both eminently successful and service-minded individuals and world-class examples for our students. Their authenticity, creativity, and energy will be invaluable for our faculty, staff, and trustees as we all work collaboratively toward a bold and distictive future for PC.”

Prashad is the president and chief executive office of World Acceptance Corporation in Greenville, one of the largest lenders in the U.S. focused on helping non-prime creditors improve their finances and credit scores.

Before assuming leadership as president and CEO in 2018, Prashad served as the company’s chief strategy officer and vice president of analytics. From 2007-14, he held several strategy and analytics roles at Resurgent Capital Services.

The Greenville native is an energetic community leader, as well. He serves on the non-profit board for The Family Effect and is a board member emeritus of Fostering Great Ideas. He is a passionate advocate for improving the lives and welfare of children in foster care, and he and his wife, Pam ’02, have been foster parents for more than a decade. He has developed several high school and college support programs for students impacted by foster care and has served as a young adult mentor.

Prashad also serves as a director on the boards of World Acceptance Corporation and the American Financial Services Association. In support of PC, he served as the Data Analytics Advisory Committee chair, which led to a new data analytics major being added in 2018 and shepherding the college’s Service Entrepreneurship program announced in Fall 2021. (More)

Before graduating in PC in 2002, Prashad was the S.C. Collegiate Entrepreneur of the Year in 2001. In 2004, he earned a master’s degree in economics from Clemson University.

Chad and Pam Prashad reside in Greenville with their family.

Harrison is an attorney with McGowan, Hood, Felder, & Phillips, LLC in Columbia, S.C.

She has served as lead appellate counsel on more than 30 appeals before the Supreme Court of South Carolina and the S.C. Court of Appeals, ranging from constitutional challenges to corporate governance to novel law.

Recently, Harrison represented utility customers in litigation surrounding the failed nuclear project at V.C. Summer and argued on behalf of a client on death row before the state Supreme Court.

In 2020, Whitney became the first woman to receive the South Carolina Bar’s Trial and Appellate Advocacy Award, awarded to a member of the bar “who had demonstrated substantial dedication to the furtherance of the art and techniques of trial and appellate advocacy in South Carolina, outstanding and exemplary skill and conduct in the practice of advocacy, and has devoted substantial time and effort to the education and training of lawyers.”

Harrison earned her law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2010. During her time in law school, she served as Student Bar Association vice president. She earned the Susan V. Johnson Award for commitment to service and leadership and the Student Bar Association Service Award.

She clerked for both the Hon. Aphrodite K. Konduros at the S.C. Court of Appeals and the Hon. Kaye G. Hearn at the state Supreme Court. She currently serves on the boards of the S.C. Bar Foundation, S.C. Appleseed Justice Center, and the S.C. Association for Justice.

In 2020, Harrison was named PC’s Outstanding Young Alumna.