Current Advisory Council Members
Peg Padnos - Chair

• George Bayard, III - Grand Rapids African American Museum and Archives
• Dan Hurwitz - Grand Valley State University (Development)
• Matthew Daley - Grand Valley State University (History)
• Connie Dang - Grand Valley State University (Office of Multicultural Affairs)
• Don Lubbers - President Emeritus, Grand Valley State University
• Susan Mendoza - Grand Valley State University (Office of Undergraduate Research  & Scholarship)
• Nathan Nietering - Michigan State Historic Preservation Office
• Stephanie Ogren - Grand Rapids Public Museum
• Levi Rickert - Native News Online
• Andrea Riley-Mukavetz - City of Grand Rapids (Communications Department)
• James Smither - Grand Valley State University (History)
• Mark Schaub - Grand Valley State University (Dean of the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies), ex-officio

 

Honorary Advisory Council Members

• John H. Logie
• Hank Meijer

Past Council Members

• Ana Aleman-Putnam 
• Mary Alt
• Claudia Benitez-Sanchez
• Janet Brashler
• Candace E. Chivis
• William Cohen
• Ruth Coleman
• Thomas R. Dilley
• Delia Fernandez-Jones
• Robert Frey
• Tim Gleisner
• Dwight Hamilton
• Sonya Hughes
• Johanna Jelks
• John H. McGarry, III
• Sandy Karsten
• Connie Navarro
• Gordon Olson
• Lena Del Real
• Annoesjka Soler
• Wendy J. Wenner
• Paul Wittenbraker