Board Members | marketing-educators

Board Members

2025-2026 Executive Team

Sarah Fischbach

Board Chair

Pepperdine University

sarah.fischbach@pepperdine.edu

Kristen Schiele

President

University of Southern California

kschiele@marshall.usc.edu

Leslie Gould

President Elect

Angelo State University

leslie.gould@angelo.edu

Erica Garcia-Thomas

Vice President

Indiana Wesleyan University

erica.garciathomas@indwes.edu

Cal Simpson

Immediate Past President

Indiana University East

ldsimpson@iue.edu

Rex Moody

Treasurer

Angelo State University

rex.moody@angelo.edu

Vaishali Sethi

Secretary

University Canada West

vaishali.sethi@ucanwest.ca

David Ackerman

Marketing Director

California State University Northridge

david.s.ackerman@csun.edu

Loran Jarrett

Social Media Director

University of South Florida

loranjarrett@usf.edu

Paige Bridges

Webmaster

Sweet Briar College

pbridges@sbc.edu

Western Region Directors

Kirti Celly

California State University,
Dominguez Hills

kcelly@csudh.edu

Maha Ghosn

Cal Poly Pomona

mghosn@cpp.edu

Deborah Heisley

California State University, Northridge

deborah.heisley@csun.edu

Rika Houston

California State University, Los Angeles

drhoustoncsula@gmail.com

Shikha Upadhyaya

California State University, Los Angeles

supadhy4@calstatela.edu

Northwest Region Directors

Luke S. Williams

Central Washington University

luke.williams@cwu.edu

Bob Lupton

Central Washington University

robert.lupton@cwu.edu

Southwest Region Directors

“GG” Gopala Ganesh

University of North Texas

ganesh@unt.edu

Thuy Nguyen

University of North Texas

Thuy.Nguyen@unt.edu

Rocky Mountain Region Directors

Laurel Lane

Metropolitan State University of Denver

llane11@msudenver.edu

Kwabena Peprah

Metropolitan State University of Denver

kpeprah@msudenver.edu

Central Region Directors

John Franklin

St. Catherine University

jlfranklin418@stkate.edu

Sarah Rand

St. Catherine University

sjrand@stkate.edu

Mary Thomas

St. Catherine University

mbthomas@stkate.edu

Southern Region Directors

Katie Howie

University of Southern Mississippi

katie.howie@usm.edu

Adams Mills

Loyola University New Orleans

ajmills@loyno.edu

Eastern Region Directors

Emi Moriuchi

Rochester Institute of Technology

embbu@rit.edu

Vlad Pashkevich

St. Francis College

vvpashkevich@gmail.com

Community College Directors

Sarah Felmet

College of Lake County

sfelmet@clcillinois.edu

April Harris

Southcentral Kentucky Community & Technical College

april.harris@kctcs.edu

JoNell Henderson

Elizabethtown Community and Technical College

jhenderson0160@kctcs.edu

International Directors

Vilte Auruskeviciene

ISM University of Management and Economics

vilaur@ism.lt

Noah Bell

Jerusalem College of Technology

Nathalie B. CHINJE-N BODIONG

Founder & non-Executive Director, Upbeat marketing, South Africa

nath@upbeatmarketing.co.za

Sabine Emad

University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland

sabine.emad@hesge.ch

Samer El Hajjar

National University of
Singapore

samer@nus.edu.sg

Wade Halvorson

Deakin University

w.halvorson@deakin.edu.au

Minna-Maarit Jaskari

University of Vaasa, Finland

minnamaarit.jaskari@uwasa.fi

Karen Robson

University of Windsor

Karen.Robson@uwindsor.ca

Vaishali Sethi

University Canada West

Vaishali.sethi@ucanwest.ca

At-large Directors

Wendy K. Bendoni

Woodbury University

wendy.bendoni@woodbury.edu

Magali Dubosson

Haute Ecole de Gestion Fribourg

magali.dubosson@hefr.ch

Mine Üçok Hughes

California State University, Los Angeles

mine.ucokhughes@calstatela.edu

Mary Beth McCabe

Point Loma Nazarene University

mmccabe@pointloma.edu

Janet Parish

Texas A&M University

jparish@mays.tamu.edu

Michael Pettiette

University of Houston-Downtown

pettiettem@uhd.edu

Mark Rosenbaum

The Citadel

mrosenba@citadel.edu

Kathleen Zumpfe

Doane University

kathleen.zumpfe@doane.edu

Ex-officio Director

Victoria Crittenden

Editor, Journal of Marketing Education

Babson College

vcrittenden@babson.edu