Coalition in Action
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MEET OUR COALITION MEMBERS
Youth Sector
Aliana Stanley
Aliana Stanley is a member of the class of 2020 at Whitewater High School with a 3.8 GPA. Born in New Jersey, she currently lives in Fayetteville, Georgia. Aliana is an active member and leader in several clubs and organizations at school. Additionally, Aliana currently serves as President of the Fayette County NAACP Youth Council and an intern at the Fayette County State Court. Aliana Stanley plans to attend college to pursue a degree in Law.
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Alyssa Wright
Alyssa is a senior at Whitewater High School. Alyssa is creative, helpful, and puts forth effort in everything she tries. She is a former competitive gymnast and is now in track & field. She is a member of Beta, Spanish, and Math clubs. She is also the Education Chair for the Fayette County NAACP Youth Council and the Vice President of FCCLA. Alyssa is planning for college and intends to major in neuroscience or biomedical/aerospace engineering.
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Chad Evans
Chad Evans is a senior at Starr's Mill High School. He is involved
in student government and a member of the debate team. Chad is also a player on the varsity tennis team, which claimed the 2017 State Championship title. He hopes to one day live in a large metropolis and work in creative advertising. He seeks to better Fayette County by further connecting citizens through community projects. |
Kelly Padilla
Kelly is a senior at Whitewater High School. She enjoys volunteering at various
places such as the Real Life Center’s food pantry, Azalea Estates Nursing Home, and any other opportunities provided. Kelly is currently a member of AVPRIDE, Symphonic Orchestra, Beta Club, Spanish Honor Society, Drug Free Fayette Coalition, and the swim team. Her long term, academic goals would be majoring in engineering and minoring in architecture. |
Chyna Gibson
Chyna Gibson is a senior at Sandy Creek High School. She has been nominated
for the National Academy of Future Physicians. She plays the clarinet in the Wind Ensemble Band. Chyna volunteers to help a Girl Scout troop every other Monday at North Fayette Methodist Church. Every Sunday & Wednesday she joins her dad to help with his cleaning business. She enjoys to cook and participates in the culinary arts class at Southern Crescent Technical College. She is a part of the Chick-fil-A Leader Academy held at Sandy Creek High School. Chyna's long term goal is to become a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. |
Parents Sector
Martha Hall
Martha Hall is the Fayette County DUI Court Coordinator. She works for the
Fayette County State Court. Martha oversees a post-conviction program specializing in drug and alcohol addiction recovery. Prior to her current position, Martha worked for the Solicitor General Coweta County in victim advocacy. Martha serves on The Eden Project Board of Directors. She is completing her MS in Criminal Justice Administration from University of Wisconsin. Martha is the mother of 2 teenage boys. |
Doreen Barr
Doreen Barr: Born and raised in Hawley, PA and a graduate of Bloomsburg University with a teaching degree K – 6th grade with a minor in French. I have been married for 37 years to Chad Barr, a Delta Airlines Pilot. My greatest accomplishment is my four sons, Chad, Ryan, Tony and Alex. I was a stay at home mom until all of my children were in school, then I became a substitute teacher for the Fayette County School system for many years. I served as room mother for all of my sons in elementary school, Peachtree City Recreational Basketball Board of Directors and Touchdown Club Board at Starr’s Mill High School. I was the fundraiser coordinator for Starr’s Mill High School for 12 years. Today I am the proud “Nanny” of Jackson Ryan, my grandson. My new mission is drug education and awareness through my non-profit foundation, “In Ryan’s Name, Inc.”
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Business Sector Media Sector Religious Sector
Steve Blankenship
Steve is Human Resources Manager at TDK Components USA. He began his career in education and spent several years as a college instructor in Japan. After returning to the U.S. his passion for working with people, education and cross-cultural understanding led him to pursue a career in human resources. He has worked closely with educational institutions and has been involved in several state and local initiatives relating to workforce training and development.
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Christopher Dunn
Chris is a lifelong resident of Fayette County. A 2001 graduate of McIntosh High School and later, Georgia State, he started writing for the Fayette County News and Today in Peachtree City in 2009. He has been the Managing Editor since 2015.
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Huma Faruqi
Huma is a special needs teacher who has served in education for 25 years. Born in Pakistan, Huma volunteers at two mosques in the Atlanta area teaching numerous classes including the interpretation of the Quran, Arabic and Tajweed (elocution). She is the bookkeeper for her husband's aviation company, and is a certified speaker for the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta. She is a mother of four and a grandmother of four. She has lived in Fayette County since 1998.
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School Sector
Dr. Ted Lombard
Ted is the Coordinator for Safety, Athletes & Discipline for Fayette County Schools. A resident of Fayette County since 1993, he is a 23-year educator after 20 years as a combat arms Army Officer. He has taught at the elementary, middle school, and college levels and has been a high school assistant principal and middle school principal in Fayette County for 14 years. He has been married to retired educator, Linda Lombard, for 38 years and has three adult children and three grandchildren.
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Dr. Julie Turner
Julie has lived in Georgia since 1991, working for Fayette County Public Schools since 1995. She holds a B.S. in geology, master's and specialist degrees in education leadership, and a Ph.D. in education policy studies. Dr. Turner has worked at the elementary school, middle school, high school, and district levels. She currently serves as the Assistant Superintendent of Student Achievement. All four of her children graduated from Fayette County schools.
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Youth Serving Sector
Ronald Smith
Ronald Smith was born and raised in historic Selma, Alabama. He spent his childhood in the town that was the center stage for the Civil Rights Movement in the sixties. From a young age, Ronald showed promise as a basketball player and he played his way out of the small town of Selma to play with the Los Angeles Lakers summer league and overseas. Today, he mentors and trains young men and women of all backgrounds in conflict reconciliation and cultivating leadership. Ronald has facilitated hundreds of trainings for college students, civic organizations. Ronald Smith has experienced personal transformations from the Lord and his life experiences giving him the ability to teach about nonviolent social transformation and reconciliation which is powered by love.
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Nick Russo
Nick Russo is the Senior Counselor for the Insight Program in Tyrone, Georgia. Raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Nick began his recovery in July of 2008. For the last 10 years he has dedicated his life to helping teenagers and young adults find a better way of living through recovery. Nick lives in the Tyrone area with his wife Lindsey.
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Law Enforcement Sector
Lieutenant Matt Myers
Matt is the Commander of the Criminal Investigations Division for the Peachtree City Police Department and a widely recognized expert on drugs and human performance impairment. He is a graduate of the Robert F. Borkenstein Course on The Effects of Drugs on Human Performance at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, and has provided expert testimony before numerous courts and the Georgia Senate. Matt has worked in Fayette County for 21 years, 13 with the Peachtree City Police Department.
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Sarah Munday
Sarah is a Deputy with the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office, currently assigned to the Patrol Division. She has been employed in the public safety field since 2010, first working as a Firefighter/EMT. Sarah began her law enforcement career in 2013 at the Fayette County Sheriff's Office working in the Jail Division. Since coming to patrol in 2016, she has become an instructor and is currently serving as a handler on the K-9 Bloodhound team.
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Scott Israel
Scott Israel has been serving in law enforcement for 24 years and has lived in Fayette County for 27 years. He and his wife of 23 years are raising a teenager. He has serve as Jail officer, Patrol Officer, School Resource Officer, Crime Scene Investigator, Chaplain and currently Criminal Investigation Division as the Juvenile and Gang Investigator.
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Ken Morrow
Ken has been in state law enforcement since 1999 and is employed by the Department of Community Supervision as a task force officer. He has been assigned to the Drug Enforcement Administration since 2013 and is attached to the DEA’s Tactical Diversion Squad, which focuses exclusively on crimes involving the diversion of prescription medication. He has been a Fayette County resident since 2008, and is dedicated to doing everything possible to stop the opioid epidemic that is ravaging our country.
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Emmett Highland
Emmett has been a resident of Fayette County since 2010 and is a graduate of Georgia Southern University. Emmett began his law enforcement career with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in 1985 and went on to accept a position as a Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1987. Emmett was assigned to DEA offices in Baton Rouge, LA., Philadelphia, PA., Washington, DC; Wilmington, NC; Canberra, Australia and Atlanta, GA. Emmett retired from the DEA in November 2017 and is currently employed as the DEA Atlanta Diversion Outreach Coordinator. He is married and has two children.
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Health Sector
Ted Kirk
Ted is currently involved with DBHDD as a representative from Fayette County serving a three- year term on the Region 6 Advisory Board, and the State of Georgia Leadership Board. Ted is a retired IBM’er, and social worker with experiences in Child Protective Services, Family and Children Services, Adult Protective Services, and Drug and Alcohol addiction. Ted also is an experienced psycho therapist with training in EMDR, CBT, Prolong Exposure, and PTSD treatments for military and civilian populations.
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Bren Briggs
Founder and Executive Director of the Eden Project, Bren Briggs is a retired senior Army officer with 28 years of service. He spent his first 8 years as an enlisted Marine then accepted a direct commission as a medical officer in the Army. He once served on an Alzheimers Board of directors and during that time, he ran a 153-mile ultra-marathon across the Sahara and raised over $50,000.
Bren is a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and a PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with an MA in Leadership and is currently working on his PhD is Organizational Psychology. He has three children, Bren II , Eliah, and Eden. |
Debbie Britt
Debbie Britt, Executive Director, Patient Services - Piedmont Fayette Hospital. Debbie joined Piedmont Fayette in 2012 and oversees Community Relations, Internal/External Communications, Auxiliary, Nutrition and Dining, Spiritual Care, and Oncology Services.She serves on various hospital committees including Piedmont Fayette’s Patient-Family Advisory Council. She is a current member of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Advisory Panel for Outreach and Education. She has previously served as Board Chairman for the Fayette Chamber of Commerce and the Piedmont Healthcare Women’s Leadership Alliance.
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Dr. Miles Johnson
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Dr. Miles Johnson graduated from Meharry Medical College in 1990 and moved to Atlanta in 1994 where he began working at West End Medical Center. Dr. Johnson has served in the capacity of a Director at several long-term care and rehab facilities, hospice facilities and healing community centers. He also has experience working in addiction medicine and at behavioral services and treatment centers.
Dr. Johnson is a husband and father of two children and he likes to devote his time volunteering at several community organizations. |
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Government Sector
Ray Gibson
Ray has served as the City Manager for the City of Fayetteville since October of 2014 and has worked in various capacities with local government for over 17 years. He is also a board member for the Fayette Chamber of Commerce and Vice Chair of the Fayette Visioning’s Place Committee. In his spare time he enjoys many sports including golf and tennis. Ray currently lives in Fayetteville and is married to Sonja and is the step-father to three children, Tyler, Bailey, and Courtney.
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Phil Prebor
Phil is a local business owner who has lived in Peachtree City since 1991. He presently serves on Peachtree City Council, Post 1. Phil is married to his wife Lali and together they have three children. They attend Southside Church. Phil graduated from Georgia State University with a Business degree in Marketing. He hopes that his actions inspire others to get involved in keeping Fayette County a great place to live, work, and play.
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Kathaleen Brewer
Originally from California, Kathaleen has been active in the community ever since moving to Fayette County in 2005. She was Founder/Owner of Artworks on the Square in Fayetteville for five years and remains active in both visual art and screenwriting. She worked with Becky Smith on Fayette’s Grandparents Raising Grand Kids group and is currently taking government classes through the Carl Vincent Institute of Government. Kathaleen also serves as the first woman elected to the Fayetteville City Council.
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Other Substance Abuse Organizations Sector
John Bringuel
John has been active in individual and community social change since 1986 and
have lived in Fayetteville since 1980. John works for the Council on Alcohol and Drugs and is the Project Director for the Georgia Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Initiative which is funded by DBHDD/DAD/OPSP. John’s 25+ years in social work has centered on promoting healthy living and engaging people in community environmental change related to the safety, well-being and success of all people in the community especially the youth. |
Britni Overall
Britni Overall is the Education/Development Supervisor for the Georgia Poison Control. She ha s been in this position for over 5 years. Previously, she worked in the fields of exercise science and health promotion. Britni is a certified health education specialist (CHES) and personal trainer. She is currently pursuing her Masters of Science Degree in Health Promotion. Britni was raised in Fayette County and is a resident with her husband and two children.
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Civic Sector
Catherine Sanderson
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Catherine is a local trial attorney who has lived in Fayette County for 25 years. She has three children: Austin (23), Sarah (11), and Andrea (10). Catherine has been involved in a number of community service organizations, including AVPRIDE, Promise Place, Southern Conservation Trust, the YMCA, and the Rotary Club of Peachtree City. Catherine's passion is to make a positive impact on the community.
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