Staff and Advisory Board
OHERN Staff
Jerry W. Wicks, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, BGSU
Board Member, All Aboard Ohio
Director, OHERN Institute
Michael Hale
Communications Director
Roger Shope
State Campaign Coordinator
Kelly Wicks
Owner and Founder, Grounds For Thought
Government and Business Relations Liaison
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, BGSU
Board Member, All Aboard Ohio
Director, OHERN Institute
Michael Hale
Communications Director
Roger Shope
State Campaign Coordinator
Kelly Wicks
Owner and Founder, Grounds For Thought
Government and Business Relations Liaison
Advisory Board
OHERN advisory board members voluntarily serve as key consultants and valuable resource personnel to the institute’s director. The advisory board is a group of individuals, appointed by the director to provide advice on a wide range of issues relevant to institute. These issues include the areas of rail passenger planning and development, university and public relations, financing, railroad technology, computer and mobile learning, administration and more.
Keith Bernhard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, College of Technology
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
Vice-Chair, Ohio Faculty Council
William O. Gill
Passenger Rail Historian
TMACOG Passenger Rail Committee
All Aboard Ohio (Ohio Association of Railroad Passengers)
Glenn T. Grisdale, AICP, GISP
Project Manager, Planning
Stantec Consulting
www.stantec.com
130 S. Main Street, Suite 302
Bowling Green, OH 43402
Kenneth Prendergast
Executive Director
All Aboard Ohio
www.allaboardohio.org
12029 Clifton Blvd., Suite 505
Cleveland, OH 44107-2189
James E. Seney
Director, Transportation Based Economic Development
Value Recovery Group (VRG)
Exec.Director, Ohio Rail Development Commission, Retired
Ronald C. Sheck, Ph.D.
Board Member, All Aboard Ohio
Urban Rail Program Manager
Washington State Dept. of Transportation, Retired
Professor David Swanson, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology and
Director, Center for Sustainable Suburban Development
cssd.ucr.edu/
University of California Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
Jeff Tayman, PhD
Lecturer, Department of Economics
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
Director of Technical Services Department
San Diego Association of Governments, Retired
Associate Professor, College of Technology
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
Vice-Chair, Ohio Faculty Council
William O. Gill
Passenger Rail Historian
TMACOG Passenger Rail Committee
All Aboard Ohio (Ohio Association of Railroad Passengers)
Glenn T. Grisdale, AICP, GISP
Project Manager, Planning
Stantec Consulting
www.stantec.com
130 S. Main Street, Suite 302
Bowling Green, OH 43402
Kenneth Prendergast
Executive Director
All Aboard Ohio
www.allaboardohio.org
12029 Clifton Blvd., Suite 505
Cleveland, OH 44107-2189
James E. Seney
Director, Transportation Based Economic Development
Value Recovery Group (VRG)
Exec.Director, Ohio Rail Development Commission, Retired
Ronald C. Sheck, Ph.D.
Board Member, All Aboard Ohio
Urban Rail Program Manager
Washington State Dept. of Transportation, Retired
Professor David Swanson, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology and
Director, Center for Sustainable Suburban Development
cssd.ucr.edu/
University of California Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
Jeff Tayman, PhD
Lecturer, Department of Economics
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
Director of Technical Services Department
San Diego Association of Governments, Retired