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This Week's Speaker
Sally Bethea, Chattahoochee River Keepers

Join us this Friday at the Embassy Suites to welcome Sally Bethea, the retired founding director of Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. This environmental advocacy organization was established in 1994 with a mission is to protect and restore the Chattahoochee River, its tributaries and watershed.

Sally has an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in city and regional planning from Georgia Tech—as well as more than forty years of experience in environmental issues and nonprofit management. After retiring in 2014, Sally taught a graduate course in water resources planning at Georgia Tech for six years.

Since 2015, she has written a monthly column for Atlanta INtown paper called "Above the Waterline." She is also the author of an environmental memoir called Keeping the Chattahoochee, published by the University of Georgia Press, which has been named a 2024 Book All Georgians Should Read (GA Center for the Book). 

Sally will have copies of her book, Keeping the Chattahoochee, available for purchase at $25 each. She accepts cash, checks, or Venmo payments (no credit cards, please).

Posted by Jackie Cuthbert
August 4, 2024

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