M&O Field Organizer Hilary Merlin has been appointed Interim Project Director. Hilary has been with Mothers & Others since 2014, where she has grown M&O’s network of clean air advocates four-fold and educated hundreds of citizens and health professionals on the connections between air quality, carbon pollution and public health.
Prior to joining M&O, Hilary, who earned her M.Ed. in Health Promotion and Behavior from the University of Georgia, worked as a health educator and advocate in pediatric hospitals, Head Start programs, public schools and universities. She will serve in this role until a project director is selected. “We are please that Hilary is stepping in as we have always valued her work” said June Deen with the American Lung Association of the Southeast. You may contact Hilary at hilary.merlin@lungse.org.
