BOARD MEMBERS
Phillip Hodges (President) is a certified public accountant who is retired from the firm of Ernst & Young where he served as an audit partner. His interests include most outdoor activities, particularly canoeing, kayaking and hiking. Phillip is heavily involved in the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club as a trail maintainer and is also on the Board of Trustees for the National MS Society, Georgia Chapter.
Britt Storck (Vice President) is a professional landscape architect who has built her career around greenway and trail placemaking, natural resource-based recreation projects, and active community design and planning. Britt has worked collaboratively with engineers and planners in over 100 communities to develop projects that are more active places. She manages the Atlanta office for Alta Planning + Design, an active community consulting firm. Britt has served on the North Carolina Rail Trails Board of Directors and the NC and GA Executive Committees of the American Society of Landscape Architects. An Atlanta native, Britt can regularly be found cycling, trail running, and paddling along the Chattahoochee River.
Graham Dorian (Treasurer) is the former owner of Valpak of Atlanta, which he managed for Cox Communications prior to acquiring the company. An active outdoorsman, Graham lives on the Chattahoochee River with his family and uses the CRNRA several
times a week to hike and mountain bike; his other hobbies include fly fishing, scuba diving, archery and piloting his Cessna 185 bush plane.
Jay Bogan (Secretary) is a partner at the law firm of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, where he concentrates his practice on complex commercial litigation and is the leader of the firm’s Class Action Team. An outdoor enthusiast, Jay is a lifelong birder, hiker and backpacker.
Cathy Barnard manages her own design firm which specializes in branding, corporate identity and public relations and lives in River Glen neighborhood bordering the CRNRA. A certified master naturalist, she served eight years as a docent with the Chattahoochee Nature Center and has assisted with the education programs offered by the National Park Service in the CRNRA.
Sarah Boyer is a landscape designer at Lord Aeck Sargent and a resident of Sandy Springs. She has five years of experience in the architecture and engineering industry in practice areas that focus on community development, parks and open spaces, higher education and master planning. Sarah serves as treasurer for the Georgia Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects and event planning advisor for the Gamma Alpha Chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta. Passionate about public lands, she spends much of her free time hiking in the CRNRA and other national parks across the country.
Peter Coffman is a partner in the law firm of Demetry, DeCarlo & Coffman where he specializes in commercial contracts and lending. Previously he practiced constitutional law at the US Department of Justice and commercial litigation at the Atlanta office of the Dow Lohnes law firm which he also co-managed. He served for many years as the chairman of the Chip Allen Chapter of Ducks Unlimited, raising money to conserve and rehabilitate wetlands. He also served as a board member and general counsel of Georgia Shakespeare, and on a fundraising board for the PATH 400 Greenway. Peter is an outdoorsman who enjoys the rivers, lakes and trails around Atlanta and North Georgia. His hobbies include flyfishing, waterskiing, canoe trips, hiking, biking and guitar, all of which he shares with (or inflicts upon) his wife and four daughters.
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Adriana Garcia is the co-founder of Latinxhikers, a grassroots organization focused on promoting justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in the outdoors through community outreach and digital storytelling. She leads hikes all over the southeast region and sometimes beyond that when she gets the chance. She previously championed an initiative with a community-based nonprofit in Atlanta called Nature for All - Atlanta. It involved creating equitable access to the outdoors, community engagement, advocacy, education, and empowerment. She is also a storyteller, photographer, content creator, and forever adventurer. Besides introducing new folks to the beauty of the outdoors, her favorite activities are camping, hiking, and outdoor cooking on our public lands..