About Us

Celeste Diehm

Board Chair

Ferris State University, College of Education
Grand Rapids

James D. Napolitano

Vice Chair

SVP, Managing Director
Publicis Groupe
Dryden

April Clobes

Treasurer

CEO, MSU Federal Credit Union
Bath

Joseph Stanhope Cialdella

Secretary

Academic Program Manager for Public Scholarship, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor

Bill Beekman

Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Michigan State University

East Lansing

Ethriam Brammer

Assistant Dean, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Ann Arbor

Paul Chaffee

President, Paul C. Chaffee LLC
Freeland

Dr. Jennifer Drake

Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Grand Valley State University
Sparta

Julie Dorcey

Foundation Manager, Delta College Office of Institutional Advancement
Saginaw

Antonio David Garcia

Affirmations Community Center
Ferndale

Deanne Gavalis

Wealth Advisor Vice President, PNC Bank
Kalamazoo

Colleen Graber

Chief Operating Officer, Public Policy Associates
East Lansing

Dr. Angela H. Graham

Director of Southwest Michigan Strategies, Fetzer Institute
Kalamazoo

Jenell Leonard

Vice President of Public Affairs, Marketing Resource Group, Inc.
Dewitt

Rena Richtig

Director, Escanaba Catholic Faith Formation
Gladstone

Kathryn Curtiss Spence

Retired Director, Dow Corning Foundation
Saginaw

Glenn Stevens

Executive Director of MICHauto, Vice President of Automotive & Mobility Industries, Detroit Regional Chamber
Beverly Hills

Matt Stiffler, PhD.

Research and Content Manager, Arab American National Museum
Ann Arbor

Jenee Velasquez

President & CEO, The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation
Midland