Officers and Committees
Helen Harton
2023 MPA President
MPA Council
Heather M. Claypool – MPA President-Elect (2024 Meeting)
Miami University
Helen Harton – MPA President (2023 Meeting)
University of Northern Iowa
Ed Hirt – MPA Past President (2022 Meeting)
Indiana University
Thomas Redick – Council Member (2021-2023)
Purdue University
Rosalyn Davis– Council Member (2022-2024)
Indiana University Kokomo
Christine Smith – Council Member (2023-2025)
Grand Valley State University
For a full list of people elected to serve as MPA Council Members since 2004, click HERE!
Appointed Officers
Michael J. Bernstein – Executive Officer (2018-Present)
Penn State University Abington
Kimberly Rios – Associate Executive Officer (2022-Present)
Ohio University
James Wirth – Associate Executive Officer (2022-Present)
The Ohio State University at Newark
Daren Kaiser – Treasurer (2015-Present)
Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne
Lorraine Grogan – Convention Manager (2016-Present) ConferenceDirect®
Allen R. McConnell – Investment Committee Chair
Miami University
Bernard L. Dugoni – Historian
University of Chicago
Program Committee
Members of the MPA Program Committee serve a three year term and have the following duties (approximate timeline is included as well):
(3) Attend the December Programming meeting in Chicago (paid for by MPA usually on the first Saturday of the month) and spend the day (8am-3pm) building the sessions for the program. This is a MUST attend meeting.
The committee is as follows.
Renée Tobin – Program Moderator (2023 Meeting)
Temple University
Vrinda Kalia – Miami University
(2021-2023)
Jennifer T Stanley, University of Akron
(2022-2024)
Jessica Rohlfing Pryor, The Family Institute at Northwestern University
(2022-2024)
Jiuqing Cheng, University of Northern Iowa
(2022-2024)
BJ Rydell, Indiana University
(2022-2024)
Paige Lloyd, University of Denver
(2022-2024)
Andy Luttrell, Ball State University
(2022-2024)
Russ Webster, Penn State Abington
(2023-2025)
KatieAnn Skogsberg, Centre College
(2023-2025)
Peter Pierre, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(2023-2025)
Jonathan J Hammersley, Western Illinois University
(2023-2025)
Marcellus M Merritt, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
(2023-2025)
Randy McCarthy, Northern Illinois University
(2023-2025)
MPA Fellows and Local Representatives Info
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