About: Susan Granbery
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- Susan Granbery is an urban and community forestry coordinator with the Georgia Forestry Commission (GFC). Among her responsibilities, Granbery works with non-profit tree groups and partners and helps organize statewide educational programs and workshops. She also coordinates urban forestry projects like the Georgia Model Urban Forest, a planning book that promotes trees as green infrastructure, and the American Grove social networking site, www.AmericanGrove.org. Granbery received a bachelor’s degree in forest science from Penn State University. She is an ex-officio board member of the Georgia Urban Forest Council, a Certified Arborist by the International Society of Arboriculture and a Type II Public Information Officer in the Incident Command System. In 2000, Granbery was awarded the Urban Forestry State Employee Award by the Southern Group of State Foresters for her coordination of the Georgia Model Urban Forest planning book. In April 2005, Granbery was recognized as one of “10 Women Saving the Planet” by Atlanta Woman magazine. Granbery is also the 2006 recipient of the “I Believe in Trees” Award from Trees Atlanta, the 2007 President’s Award from the Georgia Urban Forest Council and the 2008 National Association of State Foresters Burnell C. Fischer Current Achievement Award for Urban Forestry.
