Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation appoints new board members
Whitney Brown. File photo
New board officers, trustees and advisors have been appointed to the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, which partners with the National Park Service to preserve and enhance the most-visited national park unit.
• Charles Hauser, Marsha Ralls Hershman and Tim Maloney have joined the Board of Trustees after previously serving on the Board of Advisors.
• Whitney Brown of Meadows of Dan, Virginia, who is a dry-stone waller, folklorist and writer, was elected chair of the Board of Trustees. Saxapahaw resident Greg Andeck, who is director of partnerships for The Change Climate Project, was elected vice chair; Fincastle, Virginia resident Ken McFayden, who is director of economic development for Botetourt County, Virginia, was elected secretary; and Dahlonega, Georgia, resident Sam R. Johnson, who is an author and partner in the Atlanta practice of Newport, LLC, was elected treasurer.
The Council of Advisors welcomed three new members. These are Vivianette Ortiz Caraballo, cofounder of Latinos Aventureros en las Carolinas and supervisory case advocate for Disability Rights North Carolina; James Houchins, director of tourism & marketing for Patrick County, Virginia; and Elizabeth Skinner, an author, adventurer and retired deputy director of Forsyth County Public Library in Winston-Salem.
Since 1997, the Foundation has provided more than $22 million to support the Blue Ridge Parkway. Learn more at brpfoundation.org.
