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Friends of the Smokies gets new director

Friends of the Smokies has a new North Carolina director after Anna Lee Zanetti took the reins this week.

Zanetti has worked as the organization’s outreach and development associate for two years, doing everything from grant writing to public relations to organizing Friends of the Smokies’ monthly hikes in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 

The change in leadership comes after former director Holly Demuth, who had been director of the organization for six-and-a-half years, left for a job as development director with MountainTrue, an Asheville-based environmental nonprofit that works throughout Western North Carolina. 

Friends of the Smokies is a nonprofit that supports the park through fundraising and grants, raising nearly $50 million over the past 20 years. 

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