Environmental Leadership Program

Bethany is the Executive Director of the Alabama Coastal Foundation, a nonprofit environmental education and habitat restoration organization founded in 1993 with a mission to improve and protect the quality of Alabama's coastal resources by identifying and solving problems through education, cooperation and participation. A graduate of Texas A&M University, Bethany worked previously as an enforcement coordinator for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and in the office of the Mobile County Commission. Her work with the Alabama Coastal Foundation provides for citizen participation through issue resolution forums, volunteer water quality monitoring programs, public education seminars, habitat restoration projects and through direct participation in governmental planning. Bethany is the co-chair of the Environment team for Envision Coastal Alabama, and is a member of the boards of the Mobile County League of Women Voters and Outward Bound, Five Rivers.