People

Joe Cook, Executive Director & Riverkeeper

Joe has served CRBI as a board member since 1999, and began full time work as Executive Director and Riverkeeper in January 2005. He is a nature/landscape photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous national and regional magazines and is featured in three books, Wildflowers of the Appalachian Trail, Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains and River Song-A Journey Down the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers. He has studied and reported extensively on water resource issues in Georgia since 1994. He and his daughter and her mother spent 26 days canoeing the 160-mile length of the Etowah River in 2002. In 2007, he was the recipient of a national River Hero award from River Network and in 2011 was named to Georgia Trend's 100 Most Influential Georgians list. He is a 1988 graduate of Berry College where he studied communications and agriculture.

sarah husser, membership coordinator 

Board of Directors

Nina Lovel, President, webmaster/data management coordinator and resident of Rome, Georgia

Mike Sarver, Vice-President, ATT retired and resident of Rome, Georgia  

Carole Pearson, Treasurer, bookkeeper and resident of Rome, Georgia

Chad Johnfroe, Secretary, director of information services Stanton Carpet Co. and resident of Rome, Georgia

Billy Grant, business owner, landscape architect and resident of Cedartown, Georgia

Steve Hale, web developer and resident of Cave Spring, Georgia

John Husser, Jr., attorney and resident of Rome, Georgia

Mary Lucchese, retired physician and resident of Rome, Georgia

Carolyn Landrem, president of the Weiss Lake Improvement Association and resident of Centre, Alabama

James Lossick, business owner/proprietor of Cedar Creek Park in Cave Spring and resident of Dallas, Georgia

Katie Owens, field manager for The Nature Conservancy and resident of Rome, Georgia

Bruce  Nadu, Mt. Vernon Mills in Trion and resident of Summerville, Georgia

Bill Norris, vice president of production and materials management at Remington Medical Inc. and resident of Ball Ground, Georgia

Terrell Shaw, educator and resident of Rome, Georgia

Joanne Smith, assistant vice president director of E & S underwriting Great American Custom Insurance and resident of Cartersville, Georgia

Pamela Young, clinical coordinator for the department of pharmacy at Redmond Regional Medical Center and resident of Rome, Georgia

Board of Advisors

Bill Harbin, radiologist, Rome, Georgia

Jerry Jennings, professor at Berry College and former Floyd County Commissioner, Rome, Georgia

George Pullen, retired college instructor and former Rome City Commissioner, Rome, Georgia 

Bill McLemore, certified public accountant, Rome, Georgia

Todd Carroll, attorney, Rome, Georgia