Class Notes

LaTresse Snead

M.P.A. '01

LaTresse Snead (M.P.A. '01) has been hired as Chief Program Officer for the National Park Foundation, leading the organization’s programs and partnerships departments. Snead will oversee the organization’s programmatic strategy for protecting parks and their resources, connecting people to the natural and cultural heritage they preserve, and strengthening the extensive national network of nonprofit partners that support the more than 400 national parks across the country.

Brenda Allison

B.A '96

Brenda Allison (B.A '96), founder of two successful Ventura County, Calif., insurance agencies and the chief executive officer of Coast General Insurance Brokers, has been selected to receive the Women’s Economic Ventures’ Trailblazer Award. The annual award celebrates inspirational businesswomen in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties who have succeeded in challenging gender norms in society through passion, commitment, vision and grit. Trailblazers are active community members and philanthropists whose accomplishments serve as an uplifting example to other women entrepreneurs.

Edwin T. Bell

B.S. '97

Edwin T. Bell (B.S. '97), deputy court administrator for the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit in Decatur, Ga., is joining the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) as the Director of Racial Justice, Equity and Inclusion, a newly created position. He begins work in October. The NCSC established this position in support of a resolution adopted in July by the Conference of Chief Justices and the Conference of State Court Administrators that pledges to make the courts more equitable for everyone.