Advisors
Technical Assistance Advisory Panel
The NTAR Leadership Center has established a National Technical Assistance Advisory Panel to inform and support its technical assistance activities. Members provide advice, shape technical assistance and training activities, provide feedback on those activities, lend expertise on the Center’s State Leaders Innovation Institute states, and help disseminate research products. Members of the Panel are:
Co-Chairs
Megan Juring, Assistant Secretary of Olmstead Activities, California Health and Human Services Agency
MaryAlice Mowry, Director, Pathways to Employment, Minnesota Department of Human Services
Panelists
Michael Callahan, President, Marc Gold and Associates
Thomas Foley J.D., Access to Assets Project Manager, World Institute on Disability
Cary Griffin, Senior Partner, Griffin-Hammis Associates, LLC
Karen J. McCulloh, Executive Director, disabilityworks, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce
Celane McWhorter, Executive Director, APSE
Michael Morris, Chief Executive Officer, Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University
Pamela Murray, Dean, Workforce, Economic and Community Development, Portland Community College
Bryon MacDonald, CWII Program Director, California Work Incentives Initiative, World Institute on Disability
Click here for the press release announcing the formation of the National Technical Assistance Advisory Panel
Research Advisory Panel
The NTAR Leadership Center has established a National Research Advisory Panel to provide advice to the center and to play a critical role in shaping its research activities designed to advance state and local knowledge, policy, and practice. Members of the Panel are:
Co-Chairs
Dr. Carl Van Horn, Professor and Director, John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Rutgers University
Dr. Doug Kruse, Professor, Department of Economics and the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University
Panelists
Dr. Peter Blanck, University Professor and Chairman, Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University
Kate D. Brady, Employment Policy and Programming Director, DHR-Division of MHDDAD, Office of Developmental Disabilities
Wendi Copeland, Vice President of Mission Advancement, Goodwill Industries International
John Dorrer, Director, Center for Workforce Research and Information, Maine Department of Labor
Dr. William G. Johnson, Professor and Director, Center for Health Information and Research, Arizona State University
Elaine Katz, Vice President of Grant Programs and Special Initiatives, The Henry H. Kessler Foundation
Dr. Christopher King, Director, Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Richard G. Luecking, President, TransCen, Inc.
Dr. David Mank, Professor and Director, Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Indiana University
Jack Mills, Director, National Network of Sector Partners
Steve Miranda, Chief Human Resource and Strategic Planning Officer, Society for Human Resource Management
William Palmer, Director, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, Florida Department of Education
Dr. Wendy Parent, Research Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities, Lawrence Site, University of Kansas
Toni Riccardi, Senior Vice President for Human Resources and Chief Diversity Officer, The Conference Board, Inc.
Martin Simon, Program Director, Social, Economic and Workforce Development Program Division, Center for Best Practices, National Governors Association
Sheila Zedlewski, Director, Income and Benefits Policy Center, The Urban Institute
