Meet The Team
Our staff
Program Director
Stacy McKean
Stacy McKean is the co-owner of Grant Management LLC, a company that secures state and federal grants for infrastructure projects, specializing in public water and sewer projects for rural areas. H2 Alabama grew out of a need identified by Grant Management to bring water wells to areas not being reached by grant funds. Ms. McKean has a Master’s Degree in community counseling, served as the Grant Administrator for the Baldwin County Commission, and previously directed several other non-profit organizations in Alabama.
Well Construction Manager
Ted Butler
Ted Butler recently retired from Sheppard Services in Mobile, AL where he worked on pump and pipe repairs for household and industrial water and wastewater systems. He was a longtime employee of the Mobile Area Water and Sewer System. He has a wide range of expertise in constructing, operating, and maintaining water related facilities. Ted loves traveling throughout Alabama, has developed relationships with many of the rural water authorities and looks forward to helping people receive clean water.
Program Manager
Grayson McKean
Grayson McKean is a student at Boston University studying Political Science. She was previously a Parliamentary Campaign Intern for Member of Parliament Siobhain McDonagh in London, England. She also serves as a Senior Editor and Secretary for the Boston Political Review as well as Secretary for BU's UNICEF. Her focuses of study include human rights, nonprofit management, and the right to water sanitation.
Assistant Program Manager
Mia Brown
Mia Brown is an Incoming student of Political Science at Boston University. She is a recent graduate of the Alabama School of Math and Science, where she took an interest in government and environmental injustice. She has conducted research regarding the history of Mobile and presented at the Southern Studies Conference at AUM. She was also a member of the 2023-2024 cohort of the Alabama Environmental Youth Council.
Our Board
President
Dr. Mark Barnett
Mark Barnett is a Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Auburn University. Dr. Barnett has thirty years of national and international environmental engineering and science experience in industry, government, and academia. His technical research focuses on the chemical processes controlling water quality and contaminant behavior in natural and engineered systems. His current interests include environmental policy; sustainable development; and water, sanitation, and health in underserved communities.
Second Vice President
marcus campbell
Marcus Campbell is the Chairman of the Sumter County Commission, President of the Alabama County Commission Association, and a member of the National Association of Counties Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee. He concurrently serves as a project manager at the Black Belt Community Foundation, where he runs a large Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant. Mr. Campbell is also a former professional basketball player and is the founder of the Marcus Campbell Future Stars Basketball Camp in Alabama.
Vice President
Dr. amy chatham
Amy Hutson-Chatham is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean for undergraduate education at the UAB School of Public Health. Dr. Hutson-Chatham concurrently serves as the director of the UAB AmeriCorps VISTA statewide program and has more than 30 years’ experience working with communities in the Black Belt. She currently leads the UAB Sanitation Health Program to study and address sanitation related health problems in Alabama’s Black Belt counties.
Secretary
tom haase
Tom Haase is the owner of Baldwin Well Drilling and Pump Repair, a residential private well construction company that has been operating out of Mobile County for over 20 years. Mr. Haase is the past President of the Alabama Groundwater Association and serves as a member of the Baldwin County Environmental Advisory Board.
Tim Hurson
Tim Hurson is currently attending medical school at the UAB. He recently served as the Rural Health Liaison at the UAB School of Medicine, where he helped develop community partnerships to address sanitation related health problems in the Black Belt. Tim previously served as a US Army Officer for four years, where he held various leadership roles in financial management, strategy development, and project management.
Cara Stallman
After starting her career in working for the Baldwin County Commission and the Alabama Department of
Conservation and Natural Resources, Cara left the public sector to establish a woman-owned consulting business to secure and manage grant funded infrastructure projects for towns, cities, counties and water and sewer authorities in Southwest Alabama. Her company, Grant Management LLC, has achieved a high level of success serving over 50 clients and secured over 125 million dollars of grant funds for water, sewer, road, coastal restoration, and economic development projects throughout Alabama.
University of Alabama at Birmingham AMERICORPS VISTA PROGRAM
H2 Alabama relies on the Volunteer Support of the UAB VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) program. Since 2021, UAB has placed VISTA Volunteers in the most poverty-stricken areas of the Black Belt Region of Alabama, covering 9 counties. VISTA's serve as connectors to resources and work on projects focusing on food security, public health (including clean water and sanitation issues), environmental sustainability and education. These VISTA Volunteers provide the on the ground outreach and support required to get households connected to new water wells.