Alumni

Story by Amanda Respess, Video by Chris Brown The John H. Lounsbury College of Education has produced three of Georgia's last five Teachers of the Year, as well as the current Georgia Superintendent of the Year, Dr. Marc Feuerbach (’10). Feuerbach is the superintendent of Cartersville City Schools. At the end of May, the Georgia Department of Education announced the 2027 Georgia Teacher of the Year is alumna Charm Mapp (’03, ’06, ’10), an eighth-grade math teacher and lead teacher...

By Al WestonFor Major League Soccer’s Atlanta United, success on the pitch is only part of the story. Behind the scenes, Georgia College alumnae Kacey (McInerney) Covino (’15) and Becca Fallon (’21) help drive the club’s growth in different but equally impactful ways. Both Convino and Fallon got their start in sports as interns for Bobcat athletics.For Covino, her role as director of business operations at Atlanta United is the culmination of years of persistence. A former Bobcat soccer...

By Margaret Schell Ember Bishop Bentley (’22) is committed to her career and community. She’s the executive director of Georgia Aerospace and Defense Alliance and vice president of External Relations at Mercer University. And Bentley was recently appointed to the board for Georgia Humanities. While earning her Master of Public Administration from Georgia College & State University, she learned stakeholder analysis — understanding the motivations, priorities and influence of different...

By Gil Pound Georgia’s already booming tourism industry is set to receive a jolt over the next month with Atlanta serving as a host city for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The international soccer tournament is expected to bring some 520,000 visitors and an estimated $500 million in economic impact to the state when eight matches, including a semifinal, are played inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium from June 15 to July 15. The over half a million visitors will be in good hands with many Georgia...

By Amanda Respess and Margaret Schell Charm Ellis Mapp (’03, ’06, ’10), an eighth-grade math teacher and lead teacher of the Gifted Program at Clifton Ridge Middle School in Jones County, is the 2027 Georgia Teacher of the Year. State School Superintendent Richard Woods announced the selection at a banquet Friday, May 29. Mapp was the Jones County 2024-2025 Teacher of the Year. “Charm Mapp makes mathematics come alive for her students through her classroom number talks and hands-on...