{"id":505,"date":"2018-03-22T21:56:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scenicmichigan.wpengine.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2018-03-22T21:56:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:56:16","slug":"meet-our-new-executive-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scenic.dorsay.io\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/meet-our-new-executive-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our New Executive Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a href=\"http:\/\/scenicmichigan.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Briggs.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-455\" src=\"http:\/\/scenicmichigan.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Briggs-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Erica Briggs\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Scenic Michigan\u2019s board is excited to introduce our new executive director. In January, we hired Erica Briggs to lead Scenic Michigan. Erica worked closed with outgoing director Abby Dart to ensure a smooth transition in organizational leadership. We thank Abby for her years of service to Scenic Michigan and hope you will join with us in welcoming Erica to the Scenic Michigan family.<\/p>\n<p>Erica comes to Scenic Michigan with an extensive background in nonprofit management, transportation and land use policy, communications, legislative affairs, and policy analysis. Her background is a great fit with Scenic Michigan\u2019s needs and many of the goals our board identified in our recent strategic planning process.<\/p>\n<p>As one of her first tasks, Erica has embarked on a listening tour to learn how Scenic Michigan can strengthen past partnerships and build new ones to advance our mission. In addition to meeting with organizational partners, she is interested in reaching out to current and past members to hear your ideas. However, one of her challenges in doing this is that we\u2019ve realized we don\u2019t have email addresses or phone numbers for most of you. Sending out paper mailings is both expensive and time consuming. If you\u2019ve received this mailing, we implore you to take a moment to go to our website (<a href=\"https:\/\/scenic.dorsay.io\/\">www.scenicmichigan.org<\/a>) and fill out the contact form prominently featured on our homepage (click the green button below our photo banner that says \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/visitor.r20.constantcontact.com\/d.jsp?llr=l85csirab&amp;p=oi&amp;m=1118052645739&amp;sit=kgzfme5ib&amp;f=14b57881-1d54-4aae-8a6d-1f6c3839fef8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign Up!<\/a>\u201d). Or, if you prefer, feel free to call us at 231-725-8116. We look forward to hearing from you soon. \u2013 Jim Lagowski[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]Scenic Michigan\u2019s board is excited to introduce our new executive director. In January, we hired Erica Briggs to lead Scenic Michigan. Erica worked closed with outgoing director Abby Dart to ensure a smooth transition in organizational leadership. We thank Abby for her years of service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meet Our New Executive Director - Scenic Michigan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scenic.dorsay.io\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/meet-our-new-executive-director\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meet Our New Executive Director\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]Scenic Michigan\u2019s board is excited to introduce our new executive director. 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