Mark Berte
Alabama Coastal Foundation

In October of 2011, Mark Berte was asked to serve as the Executive Director of the Alabama Coastal Foundation (ACF). Prior to serving at the ACF, Mark was Director of Community Engagement for the Mobile Area Education Foundation and the Executive Director of the Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform Foundation. Mark received his master’s degree in Public Affairs from the University of Texas, and is a graduate of both Leadership Mobile and of Leadership Alabama. Mark serves on the boards of several organizations including Dauphin Way United Methodist Church, the South Alabama Coalition of Nonprofits, the League of Women Voters of Mobile, and the Friends of the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. Mark and his wife, Leigh Ann, who is a professor at Spring Hill College, have a twenty two year-old daughter named Julianne and an eighteen year-old daughter named Linden Elizabeth.