[ Business Briefs

• The Shreveport- Bossier Sports Commission hired Que’brelyn Hill. Hill, a 2014 graduate of Grambling State University, will join the Shreveport-Bossier Sports Commission team in the role of sports sales and services coordinator. During her time at Grambling State University, Hill majored in kinesiology with a concentration in sports management. She is a Shreveport-Bossier City native and recently completed an internship with the Independence Bowl Foundation. Hill’s daily responsibilities include acting as a liaison to connect sporting events with accommodations and other resources. She may be reached by calling 429-0654 or by email at [email protected].

• Step Forward, an education partnership spearheaded by The Community Foundation, has hired Laura Alderman as its new executive director. Step Forward is a catalyst for working together across sectors to prepare the children of Bossier, Caddo and DeSoto parishes for academic achievement, productive citizenship and global competitiveness, from cradle to career. Alderman has served for 10 years as the mental health coordinator for Caddo Parish Juvenile Services. There she developed protocols related to court-sponsored mental health services, and served as advisor to court personnel regarding evidence-based mental health treatment and promoted evidence-based practices in community programming. She served as site principal investigator for John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Louisiana Models for Change grant to develop evidence-based screening and assessment. This program was one of only two sites selected for the National Institute of Justice research project of juvenile mental health courts. Alderman also served as the executive director of Volunteers for Youth Justice from 2002-05.

• Stacy Brown, president of the Shreveport- Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau, was installed as a returning member of the Louisiana Travel Promotion Association Board of Directors at the association’s annual meeting on Cypress Bend Resort in Many. New officers installed on the executive board committee include the following: Linda Curtis-Sparks, with the Sabine Parish Tourist Commission, as chairman; Phil Frost, with the Baton Rouge Zoo, as vice-chairman; Mark Romig, with the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation, as secretary; Travis Napper, with the Ruston-Lincoln Convention & Visitors Bureau, as treasurer; and Marion Fox, with the Jeff Davis Parish Economic Development and Tourist Commission, as immediate past chair. New members on the board of directors are Kerry Andersen with L’Auberge Casino Resorts/ Pinnacle Entertainment; Chef Cory Bahr with Restaurant Cotton; Ben Berthelot, with the Lafayette Convention & Visitors Commission; Kevin Kelly, with Houmas House Plantation & Gardens; Eric Hoffman, with Hoffman Media; Marc Becker, with New Orleans Hotel Collection; Sandra Davis, with Konriko/Conrad Rice Mill; Janice Delerno, with The Stockade Bed & Breakfast; Kyle Edmiston, with the Louisiana Office of Tourism; Shelley Johnson, with the Lake Charles-Southwest Louisiana Convention & Visitors Bureau; Norman Marmillion, with Laura: A Creole Plantation; James Ramsaur, with Lincoln Parish Park; Alice Scarborough, with Kent Plantation House; Lynette Tanner, with Frogmore Cotton Plantation & Gins; and Denise Thevenot, with Louisiana Tax Free Shopping.