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