Bethany King Wilkes is the Program Director for Seamless Alignment and Integrated Learning Support (SAILS) at the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR). In this role, she oversees the SAILS Program that targets students who have not achieved college readiness benchmarks by introducing the college developmental curriculum into the high school senior year. Currently, SAILS is in over 200 high schools across 90 of 95 counties in the state of Tennessee.

Before joining the Tennessee Board of Regents, Bethany worked as Director of Engineering Student Services at Tennessee State University and as a Career and Technical Education Consultant at the Tennessee Department of Education. She completed a Ph.D. in educational psychology and research from The University of Memphis.