The Huntsville Botanical Garden is pleased to announce that Laura McPhail has joined the Garden team as the Director of Marketing and Communications. Laura is an effective and multi-faceted communicator driven to meet the goals of the Garden, its stakeholders, and its communities. In this role, she will use her expertise in strategic public relations and marketing planning to reach diverse audiences and share the Garden’s mission of connecting people to plants. She earned her Accreditation in Public Relations (APR) in 2018 and was recognized with a Senior Practitioner Award from the Southern Public Relations Federation (SPRF) in 2019. Bringing over 12 years of communications experience to the Garden, Laura has held past roles with Tyler Arboretum, Huntsville-Madison County Public Library, Mississippi State University, and the City of Huntsville.