The Greene County Chamber Board recently hired a new director.

Roccie Hill is from Palm Desert, California and she brings decades of experience in leading non-profit organizations and building communities.

Hill has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from UCLA and a master’s degree in English and creative writing from San Francisco State University. Her career began in the 1970’s as a representative with the farmworker members of the UFW in California, marketing officer for the French committee for the centennial of the Statue of Liberty and deputy director of appeals for the national office of the United Kingdom YWCA. Then in the mid-1990’s, she was the executive director of Earth Share of California, California Association of Non-Profits Public Policy Council chair, California attorney general’s Non-Profit Advisory Council, executive director of Housing Trust of Santa Clara County and executive director of Guide Dogs of the Desert. Most recently, she operated her own non-profit consultation fire, Pietra Consulting.

Hill was in Jefferson last October for an author talk at the Jefferson Public Library on her second book, “Window of Exposure”. She says she when was so impressed with the community, and when she found out about the job opening, she wanted to relocate.

She will officially take over as the Chamber director on September 1st and the Chamber Board is planning a meet-and-greet later that month.