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Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Chris Surfus, MBA, MPA, Ph.D.
President
Dr. Chris Surfus is ASPA MICAP’s President, currently serving in his second term. He has served on the ASPA MICAP Board for several years, assisting with planning, marketing, and communication with several of our past events. He earned a Ph.D. in Public Administration at Western Michigan University’s School of Public Affairs and Administration, which is where he currently works as a Board-Appointed Faculty Specialist of Public Administration. He teaches a four-course load in introduction to public and nonprofit service, foundations of nonprofit management, applied research methods, and marketing and community engagement. He has presented a variety of research projects at 24 academic conferences and has 13 publications (including pending). His most recent publication is “A Statistical Understanding of Disability in the LGBT Community,” which he completed while he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of New Hampshire’s Institute on Disability in the NIDILRR-funded Advanced Rehabilitation Research and Training (ARRT) program.
Chad Rogers, MPA
Treasurer
Dr. Dave Winder, Ph.D.
Secretary
David Winder has served on the MiCAP Board for several years. He has been active in planning the use of facilities for MiCAP conferences held at the Eberhard Center of Grand Valley State University and at the Western Michigan University Cooley Law School in Lansing. David is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Valdosta State University, which is located in Georgia. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Michigan State University and at the University of Kentucky. His teaching duties included teaching off-campus MPA courses at Navy and Air Force bases in Georgia. His research area is the state executive branch of government, including governors, lieutenant governors, and state attorneys general. He has a Ph. D. degree in political science from Michigan State University and an MPA from Wayne State University.
Marlon Brown
Board Member At-Large