Center for Families

Advisory Council Members

• JoAnna Brown, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Housing & Community Development, Sagamore Institute
• Lorene McCormick Burkhart, Founding Donor, CFF; Burkhart Network
• Deborah Myers Cook, Advocate, CFF; Retired, Certified Financial Planner
• Elizabeth Day, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, Cornell University
• Travis Dorsch, PhD, Assistant Professor, Founding Director of the Families in Sport Lab, Human Development and Family Studies, Kinesiology and Health & Science, Utah State University
• Nana Gletsu Miller, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Health Science, School of Public Health, Indiana University Bloomington
• Jane Horner, Health and Human Science Extension Educator, Purdue Extension
• Sheila Klinker, Indiana House of Representatives
• Betty Levien Krejci, Advocate, CFF
• Candice Lange, Director of the Jane Brock-Wilson Women in Management Center in the Krannert School
• Bob Miles, Advocate, CFF; Bob Miles & Associates
• Joyce Miles, Advocate, CFF; Joyce B. Miles & Associates
• Jeremy Reynolds, PhD, Professor, Sociology, Purdue University
• David Siler, LCSW, President of Families First
• Oliver Wendt, PhD, Assistant Professor, Research Lab on Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Developmental Disability, University of Central Florida

Ex Officio Advisory Council Members

• Angela Abbott, Director for Extension in the College of Health and Human Sciences
• Denise Buhrmester, Communication Director, College of Health and Human Sciences
• Jim Elicker, PhD, Theme Leader, CFF; Associate Professor, HDFS
• Melissa Franks, PhD, Theme Leader, CFF; Associate Professor, HDFS
• Valerie Knopik, PhD,  Head of Department of Human Development and Family Studies
• Marion K. Underwood, PhD,  Dean of College of Health and Human Sciences
• Aaron Kosdrosky, Chief Development Officer, College of Health and Human Sciences
• Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, PhD, Director, Center for Families