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Meet Our Staff
Claire Waggenspack Hayes
DNC Executive Director
Claire Hayes grew up loving the streams, woods, and bayous of south Louisiana. Claire moved to Atlanta right after the Olympics, as director of a small social service agency. She uses her background in non-profit management, fundraising, and volunteer management at Dunwoody Nature Center, where she has been director since December 2000.
She loves the nature trails at DNC almost as much as the amazing volunteers! Claire is a DeKalb Master Gardener and devotes her MG service hours to the special course for School Master Gardeners.
Claire serves on the Board of Directors of Georgia's Environmental Education Alliance, and just completed a term on the board of Keep DeKalb Beautiful. She sings with the Choral Guild of Atlanta as well as the Adoration Choir of Holy Cross Church.
She and her daughter, Margaret, love to garden, when they are not sailing with husband Keely. Son, Steven, practices law in New Hampshire. The picture above includes Walter Reeves who has the most listened-to radio show in Atlanta each Saturday morning featuring gardening in Atlanta.
Carla Bahun, Ed.D.
Program Manager
Carla Bahun has been an environmental educator for over 25 years in the
Atlanta area. She has worked as Director of Education
at the Chattahoochee Nature Center, managed programs
for the Cherokee Outdoor YMCA, and coordinated educational
field trip materials for The Travel Store. Carla has
also been a classroom teacher at High Meadows School
and Camp and worked with adult students in home study
courses in natural resource conservation. She holds degrees
in biology and wildlife management and most recently
completed a doctorate in education, focusing her dissertation
on a survey for teachers on the outdoor classroom.
Donna Cannady Nall
Office Administrator
Donna handles web site management, membership support, public relations, and marketing, and pitches in with event planning and programming. Such diversity is consistent with her collection of hats: educator, freelance copywriter, volunteer, blogger, and knitter – all at the same time! Donna is happiest when her plate is full.
Donna’s background includes high school English teacher, executive director of a nonprofit civic organization, advertising agency copywriter and media director, and phonics teacher. She grew up as an Air Force “dependent,” then landed in North Carolina where she met future husband Terry during a job interview. Their children, Adam and Anna Grace, attend Dunwoody schools.