2025 Diversity Committee Members

Esma Gel, Vice-Chair
Cynthia Hardin Milligan Chair of Business and Professor of Supply Chain Management and Analytics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 

Chrysafis Vogiatzis, Vice-chair Teaching Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Douglas Bish
University of Alabama

Banafsheh Behzad
California State University, Long Beach

David Czerwinski
San Jose State University

Max Ji
Penn State University

Michael Johnson 
University of Massachusetts Boston

Wilkistar Otieno 
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Sofia Perez-Guzman 
Rensselaer Polytechnic

Ruben Proano 
Rochester Institute of Technology

Daniel Reich 
Naval Postgraduate School

Jessye Talley 
Morgan State University

Carolina Vivas-Valencia 
University of Maryland

Shengfan Zhang 
University of Arkansas

Staff Liaison: Gina Lloyd 
Director of Human Resources at the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

Board Liaison: President Elect, Mark Lewis