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August 8, 2022

Makayla Riley

Makayla grew up in south Atlanta where her family is from and studied Agriculture at Ola High School where she worked watering, repotting, and selling plants. […]
June 25, 2021

Manuel Mendez Leon

Manuel was born in Puerto Rico growing up in New York going through school there when he moved to be close to his family. Since 2017 […]
October 1, 2018

Jill Newman, Director of Special Projects

Jill handles plant procurement, container garden design and implementation as well as coordination of specific expos and events that the CLI team participates in. Jill studied […]
October 1, 2018

John Newman, BLA, President

John’s background in the green industry began in 1986 with the Southeastern United States’ most successful developer of multi-family housing, Post Properties Inc. John received his […]
October 1, 2018

Toby Denham, Landscape Designer

With a bachelor in Fine Arts degree from Georgia State University and 35 years in the green industry, Toby combines his earlier field experience in nursery […]