Advisory Board Membership List (pdf)

Chris May, Chair
Executive Director
Cape Fear Council of Governments

Martin Beach
Manager
Town of Burgaw

William (Bill) Bennett
Vice President
Port Planning & Development

Byron Black
Commander, U.S. Coast Guard

Melissa Boehling
Vice President, Resource Development
United Way of the Cape Fear Area

Bill Caster
Commissioner
New Hanover County Board of Commissioners

Sterling Cheatham
City Manager
City of Wilmington

Melanie Cook
Director
Coastal Carolina Tomorrow

Wanda Coston
New Hanover County Planning Department

Chris Coudriet
Assistant County Manager
New Hanover County

Darren Currie
Town Manager
Town of Lake Waccamaw

Stephen Demski
Vice Chancellor for Public Service & Continuing Studies
University of North Carolina Wilmington

Walter DeVries
Director
Institute for Political Leadership

John Elliott
Community Relations Manager
Progress Energy

Shamair Faison, Student Representative
MPA Graduate Student Association
University of North Carolina Wilmington

William (Bill) Farris
Town Manager
Town of Leland

Sherri Franscescon
Executive Director
United Way of Onslow County

Robert Gerlach
President
VTA Group

Donna Girardot
CEO
Business Alliance for a Sound Economy (BASE)
Executive Officer
Wilmington-Cape Fear Homebuilders Association

Ruth Haas
Director
Cape Fear Museum

Jennifer Hanes Sullivan, Alumni Representative
Resource Director
Cape Fear Botannical Garden

Bill Hart
Supervisor
Soil and Water Conservation District

Matt Jordan
General Manager
Cape Fear Public Utility Authority

Rep. Carolyn Justice
North Carolina State Assembly

Katrina Knight
Executive Director
Good Shepherd Center

Linda Pearce
Executive Director
Elderhaus Inc.

Calvin Peck
Manager
Village of Bald Head Island

Nelson Reid
Department of Social Work
University of North Carolina Wilmington

Paul Sabiston
Manager
Town of Shallotte

Robert Simpson
Manager
Town of Wrightsville Beach

Steve Stone
Assistant County Manager
Brunswick County

Tufanna Thomas, Alumni Representative
Executive Director
United Way of Cape Fear, Blue Ribbon Commission

Roy Tucker

Department of Public and International Affairs Staff

Tom Barth
Coordinator of Public Management Concentrations
Director, Academy for Strategic Management

John Brennan

Milan Dluhy
Coordinator of Urban & Regional Planning Concentrations

Angela Douglas
MPA Program Coordinator
Advisor to the MPA Graduate Student Association

Mark Imperial
MPA Director
Coordinator of Coastal Management Concentration
Internship Coordinator

Roger Lowery
Chair, Department of Public and International Affairs

Laurie Paarlberg
Coordinator of NonProfit Concentration

Katie Price
Administrative Officer

Advisory Board Meetings
Next meeting:
September 25, 2009, 8-9:30am
Madeline Suite
UNCW Campus
Wilmington NC 28403
*Breakfast will be served.

The MPA Advisory Board meets regularly, once each semester during the academic year.  Please check back for future dates. For additional information for previous meetings and/or view pictures, please click above on the header.