Updated: Thursday, 06 Nov 2008, 2:36 PM CST
Published : Tuesday, 07 Oct 2008, 1:10 PM CDT
MOBILE, Ala. - Marian Mason is the Executive Director for the Central Baldwin
Chamber of Commerce. She began last October, 2007.
Prior to working for the Chamber, Marian assisted Hurricane Katrina
victims when she worked for a non-profit organization (LDS
Employment Resource Services) for 18 months in Mobile assisting
them with locating employment, returning to school or beginning a
business.
Marian and her husband and two daughters moved to Alabama in
2004 from the United Kingdom where her husband was a US Navy
representative assisting the British government with their
submarine program.
Marian's background includes a degree in journalism from the
University of Texas at Austin, working as a broadcast journalist
for 20 years in Austin and the San Francisco Bay Area, then moving
into marketing for J. Walter Thompson advertising and American
Express.
Her interests include kayaking, travel and helping to build a
more vibrant community in the Central Baldwin area.