staff

Jared Teutsch

Executive Director

Favorite Bird:
​Indigo Bunting

Michelle Hamner

Director of Development

Spark Bird:
​Sandhill Crane

Beverly Fooks

Membership & Development Associate

Spark Bird:
​Barred Owl

Adam Betuel

Director of Conservation

Spark Bird: Red-winged Blackbird

Dottie Head

Director of Communications

Spark Bird:
​Cedar Waxwing

Kiana Leveritte

Education program coordinator

Spark Bird: Dickcissel

Victor Fioresi

director Of  Administration & Finance

Favorite Bird:
​Bald Eagle

Corina Newsome

Community engagement manager

Spark Bird: ​
​Blue Jay

Alex LoCastro

Conservation program coordinator

Favorite Bird: Mourning Dove

Melanie Furr

Director of Education

Favorite Bird: American Crow

Gabe Andrle

Habitat conservation
Program 
​Manager

Favorite Bird: Any & all woodpeckers

Kim Savides

SEA GRANT FELLOW

Spark Bird: Prothonotary Warbler

board of directors

Officers

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Linda DiSantis    chair, Partner, The DISantis Law Firm LLC
Latresse Snead     Vice Chair, National park foundation
MELINDA LANGSTON     Secretary, ReTIRED, CITY OF ATLANTA 
Ellen Macht     treasurer, Food well Alliance
Esther Stokes     ​Immediate Past CHAIR, Stokes Landscape Design

Directors

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​Joshua ANdrews   Georgia Power Company
​Robert Cooper     University of Georgia
Leslie Edwards     retired, georgia state university 
angelou ezeilo     greening youth foundation
​Shannon Fair     transUnion 
jairo garcia     Georgia Institute of Technology
JOshua Gassman     lord Aeck Sargent 
Marc Goncher     The coca-cola company
Gus KaufmaN     Oakhurst psychotherapy 
Evonne Blythers Lapsey     environmental consulting
Susie Maclin     Retired Corporate archivist
Paige Martin     The Nature Conservancy
Jon Philipsborn     Climate resilience advisor
Amanda Woomer     habitat for humanity international

AdvisOrs

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Marcia Bansley     Trees atlanta
GIff Beaton     Author, Birding Georgia
Mark Berry     Georgia Power
Raphael Bostic     Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Stacia Hendricks     Little St. Simons Island
Pierre howard     former lt. governor of georgia & past president of georgia conservancy
J. Drew Lanham     ​Professor, Clemson University
John Pruitt     ​Retired Anchor, WSB TV
CLARK RUSHING     University of Georgia, Warnell College of Forestry & Natural Resources