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Fontaine Huey joined the Center for the Visually Impaired in October 2013. As President, she is responsible for the overall fiscal and program management as well as the financial development of the Center to support its mission to empower people impacted by vision loss to live with independence and dignity. Fontaine earned her BA from UCLA and an MBA from the University of Florida. She has over twenty years of experience in non-profit management and fundraising. Previous positions include: Vice President for Institutional Advancement at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, Director of Museum Advancement at the High Museum of Art, and Director of Development for the College of Fine Arts at the University of Florida. When not at the office, Fontaine enjoys cooking, reading (she is in two book clubs), and gardening. She shares her passion for community theater with her husband, Michael, who heads the Emory University Student Health Service. They have two adult sons and share their Decatur home with their Border Collie, Boo.
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Matt Peevy co-founded Mitigation Management in 2010 and Mitigation Resource Group in 2007. Matt has over mitigation years of experience in Real Estate Acquisitions for Mitigation Banks and Residential Development. Matt’s activities in the mitigation companies include credit sales, land acquisitions, and creating joint ventures. He received a BS in Political Science from the University of Georgia in 2004 and is Level I Rosgen Certified. Matt also acts as a board member of the Georgia Environmental Restoration Association (GERA) and former board member of the National Mitigation Banking Association (NMBA). Our company has been involved in over 35 mitigation projects combining for more than 120 miles of stream mitigation and 8,500 acres of critical habitat protection in Georgia including wetlands, wetland buffers, and riparian stream buffers. These projects have also succeeded in planting over 1,000,000 trees that will never be cut and removing 29 in-stream dams to restore natural connectivity.
Patricia Fortune Ammari is an elder law attorney with a practice based in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, GA. She began her practice as a litigator in the Atlanta office of an international law firm. In 2012, she founded The Ammari Firm, LLC where she assists seniors with long-term care planning, especially Medicaid planning. She also practices in the areas of estate planning, probate, guardianship, and special needs planning. She is a long-time regular volunteer at the Georgia Senior Legal Hotline providing clients with advice about Qualified Income Trusts in order to qualify for Nursing Home Medicaid. She also assists Cobb County Legal Aid as a probate clinic volunteer. Patricia has served as the President of the Georgia Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the Elder Law Section of the Cobb County Bar Association. She currently serves on the board of directors for the Georgia Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. In 2018, Patricia was appointed by the Supreme Court of Georgia to serve on the State Disciplinary Board.
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