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Meet the Team
Steve Kopp, Ph.D.
President, Marketing Committee
Associate Professor, Department of Marketing Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas. Contact Steve: skopp@uark.edu
Mathew S. Isaac, Ph.D.
Treasurer, Emerging Fellows Chair
Professor of Marketing in the Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University
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Eric Strauss, Ph.D., JD, AICP
Immediate Past President, Investment/Marketing Committee
Emeritus Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, School of Planning, Design and Construction, Michigan State University. Contact Eric: strausse@msu.edu
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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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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Bryce C. Lowery
Investment, Edcucation & Outreach Committee
Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning, University of Oklahoma
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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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Charles R. Taylor, Ph.D.
IJSW Committee Chair
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
Futures Committee
Global Business Development Manager, On Premise, Out of Home, and High School Parks and Recreation, Daktronics
Muhammad Rahman, M.Des., B.Arch.
IJSW Committee
Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Myron E. Ullman, Jr. School of Design
Craig Berger
Vice President, Futures Chair
Liaison for Development and Curricular Support for Communication Design Pathways at the Fashion Institute of Technology
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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Maggie Mason
Executive Director, Marketing Committee
Maggie holds a B.A. in Speech Communication Northern Kentucky University.
Christopher Auffrey, Ph.D.
Investment Committee, Chair, IJSW 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
Dydia DeLyser, Ph.D.
Education & Outreach Committee
Associate Professor at the Department of Geography & the Environment California State University, Fullerton
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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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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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Aparna Sundar, Ph.D.
Education and Outreach Chair, Emerging Fellows Committee
Senior User Researcher, QuickSight, Amazon Web Services
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Sanju Maharjan
Emerging Fellows Committee
Associate Transportation Researcher for Transportation Planning Texas A&M Transportation Institute
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Emily Auvil, MBA, MS Marketing
Marketing & Development Committee
Customer Team Marketing Director, Home Care
Procter & Gamble
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