The People Behind HCN
Kimberly Andrews
Faculty with UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant where she manages the Coastal Ecology Lab whose work focuses on environmental health impacts in ecological and human communities.
Allen Booker
Executive Director of Rebuild Glynn County and a long-serving Glynn County Commissioner where he has focused on addressing longstanding inequities in coastal communities.
Anita Collins
A sixth generation Gullah/Geechee resident who resides in the Urbana Park Perry neighborhood in Glynn County, a “fenceline community” directly adjacent to a large Superfund site.
Jill Gambill
Executive Director of the CEAR Hub at Georgia Tech where she focuses on equitable planning and community-based solutions to environmental issues in coastal Georgia.
Alice Keyes
The Chief Conservation Strategist at One Hundred Miles where she leads advocacy and policy efforts to protect Georgia’s coast, with a particular focus on water resources, Superfund contamination, and coastal development impacts.
Melanie Pearson
Faculty in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health where she leads the Department’s community engagement efforts.
Noah Scovronick
Faculty in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.
Katy Smith
The Water Resources Specialist with UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant where she has worked for more than two decades translating coastal science into practical action for communities along Georgia’s coast.
Rachael Thompson
The Executive Director of the Glynn Environmental Coalition where she leads environmental justice, community organizing, and oversight of Superfund site cleanups in coastal Georgia.
Josiah “Jazz” Watts
Born and raised on the Georgia Coast where he is a St Simons and Sapelo Island Descendant, Environmental Justice Strategist, Community Activist/ Organizer, a Coastal Community Health Board Member & Representative, a Georgia Commissioner with the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, and original co-founder of the ‘I Run With Maud’ Movement that sought justice for the murder of his younger cousin Ahmaud Arbery.
Kasey McClary
A Program Coordinator with Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health and a resident of Brunswick. In her role, Kasey supports the Healthy Coastal Neighborhoods membership and works to strengthen community relationships, with a particular focus on local youth and educational organizations.
Semona Holmes
Bio coming soon.
Charlene Thompkins
CEO/Founder of Biz-Quic and serves as the Treasurer for the Community First Planning Commission, Rebuilding Together of Glynn County GA, and the Black Business League of the Golden Isles.
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