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ThinkSouth blog team
Creative people from across the South have joined the team to upload
stories about progressive issues and the South to the ThinkSouth
blog. Meet our team as of January 2008:
- Bob
Davis, Anniston, AL. Bob is the editorial page editor
of The
Anniston Star. A journalist in Texas prior to joining
the Star, Davis is a native of Aliceville, Ala.
- James
Hunter, a native of Hillsborough, N.C., is a congressional
staffer in Washington, D.C. He says he hopes to advance the cause
of Southern Progressivism through political involvement.
- Sam
Kakavitsas, who grew up in Fort Mill, S.C., is a rising
senior at the College of Charleston, where he is studying political
science and math. A summer 2006 intern with the Center for a Better
South, Sam is interested in political strategy and consulting.
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Dr. Laura
Petes of Tallahassee, Fla., is a post-doctoral associate
at the Florida State University Coastal and Marine Laboratory
in St. Teresa, Fla. Her research focuses on how climate change
and environmental
stress affect marine ecosystems. Laura is a native of Chapel Hill,
NC.
- Lee
Powell is deputy director of the Mississippi Arts Commission.
Former executive director of the Mississippi Opera (1996-2001),
she has 18 years of public relations and communications experience.
Lee holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in Communication
from Mississippi College. She and husband Col. Tim Powell, director
of public affairs for the Mississippi National Guard, live near
the Ludlow Community and are the proud parents of Dori, a Papillon
born in Kokomo, MS.
- John
Quinterno of Chapel Hill, N.C., is a research associate
with the North Carolina Budget & Tax Center, which is part
of the N.C.
Justice Center. Previously, he worked as the assistant director
of the Program
on Southern Politics, Media & Public Life, a think tank
based at UNC-Chapel Hill. There, he wrote for and edited the political
magazines SouthNow and NC DataNet. He is a graduate of UNC-Chapel
Hill and the University of Notre Dame.
- Warwick
Sabin, Little Rock, AR. Warwick is a vice president at
the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Ark.. The former
associate editor of the Arkansas
Times, he served as director of development for President
Bill Clinton, and has worked on Capitol Hill, at the U.S. Embassy
in London, and Foreign Affairs magazine.
- John
L.S. Simpkins, Charleston, SC. John, a co-founder of the
Center for a Better South, is a constitutional law professor at
the Charleston
School of Law. More.
- Sam
Spence of Charlotte, NC, is a student at the College of
Charleston studying political science, and historic preservation
and community planning. He is interested in urban issues, state
politics and political strategy. Sam served as a Fall 2006 Intern
for the Center for a Better South.
- Andy
Brack, Charleston, SC. Andy, president of the Center,
edits and publishes a weekly legislative forecast and newspaper
column (S.C.
Statehouse Report) and a daily news service, SC
Clips. More.
If you find a story or opinion we should highlight -- or if you're
interested in joining our blog team -- send an email to: brack@bettersouth.org.
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"The
[LQC Lamar] Society would be a network of Southern competence
... it would be a conduit which could trap and disseminate good
ideas before they were lost in the journals of professional and
learned societies ... it would be a catalyst which actually made
things happen."
--
H. Brandt Ayers, You Can't Eat Magnolias, 1971
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to keep up-to-date on organizational activities.
Money:
You can help the Center's staff
to raise money to offset organizational startup costs.
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