Preyer is director of the North Carolina Office of the national Environmental Defense Fund.

Preyer played professional tennis and was ranked in the top 50 in the world. As the women's tennis coach at Duke University, she was voted ACC Coach of the Year five times. She earned a B.A. in English and a master's degree in public administration at UNC.

Preyer also has served on the Boards of the Children's Home Society of North Carolina, UNC-Greensboro, Biofuels Center of North Carolina, Outer Banks Conservationists, and the UNC-CH Board of Visitors.

The N.C. Center for Nonprofits is a statewide network for nonprofit members, an information center on nonprofit organizational practices, and an advocate for the nonprofit sector as a whole.

Local Girl Scouts Molly Lucille Clemens, 16; Hannah Tate, 13; Elizabeth Conte, 12; and Melanie Mather, 12, successfully pedaled more than 17 miles of the Virginia Creeper Rail to Trail from Abingdon to Damascus, Va., in the misting rain on Oct. 24. The girls participated in a North Carolina Coastal Pines outdoor adventure, "Rolling Along Virginia," to develop cycling skills, endurance, and confidence under the direction of Pines High leader, Lynne Bresler of Chapel Hill.