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A Co-Founder Retires
A co-founder of the nonprofit stepped down after a decade as a program director.
From the archive. This page keeps material published on this domain by Smart Coast, a Fairhope, Alabama nonprofit, in the years around 2004–2013. It is preserved as a record; the magazine that publishes smartcoast.org today is independent and is not that nonprofit. Contact details and personal information have been removed, and pictures that no longer exist have been replaced with credited photographs.
Photo: Chris Pruitt, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
One of the two co-founders of the nonprofit retired after about a decade as a program director. Before Smart Coast, she had been the first woman to chair the Baldwin County Commission, and her early civic work included the county's first long-range plan, a role in forming the county's economic development alliance, a first council of governments in the area, a seat on the first policy board of the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program and a term as a first co-chair of Envision Coastal Alabama.
With a Fairhope community advocate she started the work that became Smart Coast, building projects with the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program and the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, and later the Green Coast Council, based on businesses making “triple bottom line” decisions. The nonprofit became known for programs that got school children walking, and for its work encouraging Complete Streets policies across South Alabama.
