Board of Trustees

Chair, Merri Jo Bales

Director of Community/Competitive Services, Consumers Energy

Vice-Chair, Robert D. Fowler

President & CEO, Small Business Association of Michigan

Secretary-Treasurer, Justin King

Executive Director, Michigan Association of School Boards

Bradley H. Baltensperger

Chair, Department of Cognitive & Learning Sciences
Associate Dean, College of Sciences and Arts, Michigan Technological University

William B. Castanier

President, Castanier Public Relations

Frank Cusmano

Founder, Cusmano, Kandler and Reed, LLC

James Dittmer

Board of Directors, Michigan Association of School Boards

Rick Johnson

Lobbyist, Fraser, Trebilcock, Davis & Dunlap P.C.

Samuel Johnson

President, Synchro Consulting, LLC

Bill Liebold

President, Michigan Colleges Foundation

Barbara Roberts Mason

Chief Executive Officer, BRM & Associates

Rev. Dr. Michael Murphy

Senior Pastor, St. Stephen's Community Church

John W. Porter

President Emeritus, Eastern Michigan University, Education Consultant

Jack Pyle

President, Face to Face Matters, Inc.

Amy Shaw

Director of Education & Employment Relations, Michigan Manufactures Association

Ray Telman

Executive Director, Middle Cities Education Association

Fred M. Woodruff, Jr.

Past President of MFEL