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Meet the Team
President, Marketing Committee
Steve Kopp, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Marketing Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas. Contact Steve: skopp@uark.edu
Vice President, Futures Chair
Craig Berger
Liaison for Development and Curricular Support for Communication Design Pathways at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Treasurer, Emerging Fellows Chair
Mathew S. Isaac, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing in the Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University
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Secretary, Emerging Fellows Committee
Ellen Babcock
Associate Professor, Department of Art, University of New Mexico, Founding Director, Friends of the Orphan Signs
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Immediate Past President, Investment/Marketing Committee
Eric Strauss, Ph.D., JD, AICP
Emeritus Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, School of Planning, Design and Construction, Michigan State University. Contact Eric: strausse@msu.edu
Executive Director, Marketing Committee
Maggie Mason
Maggie holds a B.A. in Speech Communication Northern Kentucky University.
Legal Counsel, Investment Committee
Robert W. Oast, Jr.
Attorney with McGuire, Wood & Bissette Law Firm, Adjunct Professor, the Ohio State University
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Investment Committee, Chair, IJSW Committee
Christopher Auffrey, Ph.D.
Professor of Planning School of Planning, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
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Marketing & Sustainability, Chair, Education & Outreach
Dawn Jourdan, esq., Ph.D., AICP
Dean of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation University of Maryland
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Investment Committee
Alan C. Weinstein
Professor Emeritus, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University
Investment, Edcucation & Outreach Committee
Bryce C. Lowery
Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning, University of Oklahoma
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Education & Outreach Committee
Dydia DeLyser, Ph.D.
Associate Professor at the Department of Geography & the Environment California State University, Fullerton
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IJSW Committee
Vikas Mehta, Ph.D.
Fruth/Gemini Chair and Ohio Eminent Scholar of Urban/Environmental Design and Professor of Urbanism
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IJSW Committee
John D. Bullough, Ph.D., FIES
Program Director, Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Albany, NY
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IJSW Committee Chair
Charles R. Taylor, Ph.D.
Vice Chair, John A. Murphy Professor of Marketing at Villanova University of Business
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Education and Outreach Committee
Adam M. Pike, P.E.
Associate Research Engineer and Manager of the Signs and Markings Program at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute
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IJSW Editor, Education and Outreach Committee
Patricia (Pat) Crawford, Ph.D.
Director, School of Design, College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
​South Dakota State University
Education and Outreach Chair, Emerging Fellows Committee
Aparna Sundar, Ph.D.
Senior User Researcher, QuickSight, Amazon Web Services
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Futures Committee
Jeremy Johnson
Global Business Development Manager, On Premise, Out of Home, and High School Parks and Recreation, Daktronics
Emerging Fellows Committee
Sanju Maharjan
Associate Transportation Researcher for Transportation Planning Texas A&M Transportation Institute
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IJSW Committee
Muhammad Rahman, M.Des., B.Arch.
Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Myron E. Ullman, Jr. School of Design
Marketing & Development Committee
Emily Auvil, MBA, MS Marketing
Customer Team Marketing Director, Home Care
Procter & Gamble
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