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

Zaria Dyer

Greening Youth intern

Favorite Bird: Northern Cardinal

Melanie Furr

Director of Education

Favorite Bird: American Crow

Gabe Andrle

Habitat conservation
Program Coordinator

Favorite Bird: Any & all woodpeckers

Sergio Sabat-Bonilla

Sea Grant Fellow

Favorite Bird:  Puerto Rican Guaraguao 

board of directors

Officers

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esther stokes    chair, stokes landscape Design
ELLEN MACHT     Vice Chair, FOOD WELL ALLIANCE
MELINDA LANGSTON     Secretary, ReTIRED, CITY OF ATLANTA 
charles loeb     treasurer, retired cfo
LINDA DISANTIS     ​Immediate Past CHAIR, Partner, The DiSantis law Firm, LLC.

Directors

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​Charles Bowen   Cox Enterprises
​Gina Charles     Community Volunteer/Philanthropist
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 
Gus KaufmaN     Oakhurst psychotherapy 
Robin Lanier     GEORGIA POWER Company 
Evonne Blythers Lapsey     environmental consulting
Emmeline Luck     Southeast energy Efficiency Alliance
Paige Martin     The Nature Conservancy
Jon Philipsborn     AECOM
LaTresse Snead     NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
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
Robert Cooper     ​University of Georgia
Stacia Hendricks     Little St. Simons Island
Pierre howard     former lt. governor of georgia & past president of georgia conservancy
Drew Lanham     ​Professor, Clemson University
John Pruitt     ​Retired Anchor, WSB TV