Center for Families

Advisory Council Members

• Ximena Arriaga, PhD, Professor, Psychological Sciences, Purdue University
• 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 at Cornell University
• Travis Dorsch, PhD, Assistant Professor, Family, Consumer, and Human Development & Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, Utah State University
• Nana Gletsu Miller, PhD, Assistant Professor, Nutrition Science, Purdue University
• William Glick, Executive Director, Tippecanoe County Council on Aging
• Charlotte Hawthorne, Consultant, Eli Lilly and Company, Global Diversity and Inclusion
• Jane Horner, Health and Human Science Extension Educator, Purdue Extension
• Sheila Klinker, Indiana House of Representatives
• David Konzelmann, Retired, High School Guidance Director; Director of Admissions and  Financial Aid, PNC & Purdue Calumet; Associate Director of Admissions, Purdue University, West Lafayette
• Karen Konzelmann, Retired, Purdue Cooperative Extension Specialist and Program Leader; National Program Leader for Maternal and Child Health, U.S.D.A.; Consultant, Baylor College of Medicine
• 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
• Edie Olson, Retired, President, Families First
• Jeremy Reynolds, PhD, Professor, Sociology, Purdue University
• Barbara Riggs, MSN, PhD, Indiana-Wesleyan University/Indiana Assoc. for Marriage and Family Therapy
• David Siler, LCSW, President of Families First
• Oliver Wendt, PhD, Assistant Professor, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Program, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, and Department of Educational Studies

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
• Doran French, PhD,  Head of Department of Human Development and Family Studies
• Christine M. Ladisch, PhD,  Dean of College of Health and Human Sciences
• Judy Schumaker, Director of Advancement, College of Health and Human Sciences
• Jackie Thomas-Miller, Ed.D, Family Impact Institute
• Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, PhD, Director, Center for Families