Alyene Boyles

At A Glance:

* Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, until the age of 17, when she moved to Isola, Mississippi, where her mother was a native, with a population of 600. She and her husband, Cooper, now reside in Amory, Mississippi.

* Finished high school in Belzoni, Mississippi, then went on to Mississippi Delta Community College where she received her certificate in Secretarial Science.

* Loves to read and work out in the yard whenever possible.

Up Close:

After 17 years with SuperValu, a wholesale grocer with a division in Indianola, Mississippi, she decided that it was time for a career change before the lay-offs reached her department. While at SuperValu, she was lucky enough that opportunities opened and she was able to advance to different positions within the company. She went from keypunch operator, to administrative assistant for a buyer and the Food Fair coordinator, to assistant for the Military Sales Manager.

According to Alyene, a “friend of a friend” said that Wildlife Mississippi’s Executive Director James Cummins was looking for someone to coordinate Wildlife Mississippi’s Expos and that started her career as expo coordinator with Wildlife Mississippi. Wildlife Mississippi is no longer hosting expos but Alyene enjoyed working with the vendors and coordinating all the minor details of getting a show off and running. She has been asked “how can you call people you don’t know and try to sell them a booth?” Her response is “Easily. The most that they can do is say 'No'. The fact that we are a charitable, non-profit organization always helped sell booths. Vendors realized that we were improving fish and wildlife resources and not lining our pockets.”

Alyene is now communications coordinator/administrative assistant. She is based out of the Northeast Mississippi field office. Her duties include: co-editing Wildlife Mississippi magazine; working with the advertisers; assisting with the production and design of the magazine; coordinating the distribution of Conservation Corner each month and any newsletters that are to be distributed; and assisting with the production, design and printing of any of Wildlife Mississippi’s publications. Alyene is also administrative assistant to the executive director. Other duties are as deemed necessary.

When she is not at work, she is reading, out in the yard or just spending time with her husband.

E-mail: aboyles@wildlifemiss.org

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