Charles Scribner ~ Executive Director

CScribner@blackwarriorriver.org

Charles Scribner became Black Warrior Riverkeeper's Executive Director in 2010, having been Director of Development since June 2005. As Director of Development, his duties included raising funds, overseeing volunteers, and organizing events and newsletters for public outreach. Adding organizational leadership responsibilities as Executive Director, Charlie takes over for Nelson Brooke (who was both Riverkeeper and Executive Director from 2007 through 2009 and now has more time to focus on patrol, advocacy, and watershed spokesman duties as Riverkeeper). Charlie was so inspired by reading The Riverkeepers in 2003 that he took a summer job with the author, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at Hudson Riverkeeper. He then volunteered as a student researcher and fundraiser for Waterkeeper Alliance, Hudson Riverkeeper and Black Warrior Riverkeeper throughout college. Charlie attended St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, where he gained a passion for ecology and broke records in alumni fundraising. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in history from Princeton University in '05 after writing his senior thesis, The History of Waterkeeper Alliance. He also received an Environmental Studies Certificate from Princeton Environmental Institute. Charlie and wife Elizabeth serve Alabama's Episcopal Diocese as Stewardship of Creation liaisons for the Cathedral Church of the Advent. A member of the Birmingham Rotaract Club, Charlie also volunteers as the Treasurer of the Princeton Club of Alabama and as a trustee of two scholarships for top Alabama students: The Robert R. Meyer, Jr. Fund (Princeton University), and the John Kaul Greene Scholarship (St. Paul's School).

Charles Scribner with his wife Elizabeth at a Hudson Riverkeeper event across from West Point.