Our Board Archives - Page 2 of 3 - Cahaba River Society

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February 21, 2023

Ward Pate

Ward Pate is the Corporate Environmental Manager for McWane, Inc. Serving in this role for the past 17 years, he manages environmental compliance through the use and implementation of the

February 21, 2023

Bram Odrezin

Abraham D. Odrezin is Senior Landscape Architect / RLA, ASLA, CLARB and Founder of AO Studio, LLC. Growing up in Savannah, Georgia, ‘Bram’ found a strong connection between the well-planned

February 02, 2022

Adam Vines

Adam Vines, UAB Associate Professor of English, is an accomplished poet, and one of his strongest areas of expertise is eco-poetry. He has floated many a river, is a naturalist,

February 02, 2022

Craig Neely

Craig is Vice President and Treasurer, Coca-Cola Bottling Company UNITED and has been employed by the company since 2004. He is a Certified Public Account and previously worked in public

February 02, 2022

Direcus Cooper

Direcus Cooper is the Storm Water (MS4) Program Manager for the City of Birmingham. He is an engineer with a BS in Environmental Science from Auburn University and  a Master

February 02, 2022

Raquel Vasquez

Raquel is currently the Operations Director at ¡HICA!  (Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama), a community development and advocacy organization that champions economic equality, civic engagement, and social justice for Latino and

January 28, 2022

Meg Ford

Meg Ford is the Education and Outreach Coordinator for Wild Alabama, serving the Talladega National Forest and advocating for wilderness areas of Alabama. A Birmingham native, Meg has worked as a

March 30, 2018

Clinton Smith

Clinton Smith is the Vice President of the Stewart Perry Company, a general construction firm based in Birmingham that builds mostly in the eastern half of the country.  Stewart Perry

March 30, 2018

Carolyn Sloss Ratliff

Health, fitness and wellness have always been center in Carolyn’s life. She found like minded people at the University of Colorado where she went to college and later did her

March 30, 2018

Julie Price, PhD

Julie is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the UAB School of Public Health. She previously served as the director of University of Alabama