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IU Alumni Association Board of Managers

IUAA’s governing body

The Board of Managers is the supervisory body of the IU Alumni Association. It establishes and oversees the policies of the association and meets two to four times a year.

The board is composed of the Chief Alumni Officer as well as 13 volunteer leaders, including the immediate past chair of the association, five officers, six at-large members, and a student representative.

At-large members serve staggered three-year terms, while the officers are elected annually. The student representative is appointed annually.

Contact a member of the Board of Managers

Share your ideas and vision for the Alumni Association. Reach out to members of the Board of Managers on issues that are important to you. 

Contact Rebecca Keith at rekeith@iu.edu, director of governance, for more information or to reach a member of the Board.

Run for the Board of Managers

IU alumni are eligible to serve on the Board of Managers. Nominate yourself or another eager volunteer by November 30 in order to be considered for the next fiscal year’s nominations. The Governance Committee meets in January to select the slate. If selected, candidates will be contacted to accept the nomination by February 15. If you are not selected, you may submit your name with a petition signed by 100 Alumni Association members to the IUAA by February 28.

Meet the Board of Managers

Yung Nguyen

Chair, 2025–2026

BS′89, MD′95

Yung is the medical affairs director for Cook Group Inc. Previously, he was staff anesthesiologist for IU Health. He has served the IU Alumni Association as an at-large member of the Executive Council as well as Manager at Large for the Board of Managers. He is a past president of the School of Medicine Alumni Board, and in 2021, Yung was named Physician Mentor of the Year by the IU School of Medicine.

Hometown:

Indianapolis

Shontrai Irving

Chair-Elect, 2025–2026

BA’97, MA/JD’03

Shontrai is a clinical professor of business law at Purdue University Northwest. He is past president of the national board of the Neal-Marshall Alumni Club and current president of the Groups Alumni. In 2010, he was awarded the Charlie Nelms Distinguished Alumni Award and the Hudson Holland Scholars Program Service Award for outstanding service to Indiana University. In 2022, he received the IUAA Volunteer Leadership Award as well as Indiana’s Sagamore of the Wabash.

Hometown:

Gary, Ind.

Mary Susan Buhner

Vice Chair, 2025–2026

BA’94

Mary Susan has been Fox 59’s parenting and family lifestyle contributor since 2009 and was named Development & Engagement Strategist for the Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre in Carmel, Indiana. She helped start The Hearing Resource Center, a free clinic for children born deaf or hearing-impaired, for which she received a Leadership Service Award from former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels. Mary Susan has served as chairperson of IU Women’s Leadership Colloquium and Women’s Philanthropy Council, and on the board of directors for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. She currently serves on IU’s College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Advisory Board, the Dean of Student Affairs’ Parent Advisory Board, and the Greek Life Task Force.

Hometown:

Fishers, Ind.

Kyle King

Secretary, 2025–2026

BS’07, OD’11

Kyle has served in leadership positions with the Evansville, Optometry, and Marching Hundred alumni communities. He was instrumental in leading and successfully executing one of the largest fundraising campaigns of its kind for the Evansville chapter of the IUAA. Kyle received the IUAA Volunteer Leadership Award in 2019. He works as an optometrist at Evansville Eyecare Associates.

Hometown:

Evansville, Ind.

Mike Wargo

Treasurer, 2025–2026

BGS’82

Mike is chief operating officer at the Hospice Foundation in South Bend where he oversees strategic and operational aspects of the organization. He has served on the Finance Committee and Executive Council for the IUAA, IU South Bend Board of Advisors, IU South Bend For All Campaign Committee, the IUAA Strategic Directions Task Force, and was president of the IU South Bend Alumni Board. For his leadership in these and other areas, Mike was honored with the IUAA President’s Award in 2001, the IU South Bend Distinguished Alumni Award in 2010, and the Continuing Studies Distinguished Alumni Award in 1999.

Hometown:

Granger, Ind.

John Brown

Manager at Large, 2024–2027

BA’84, JD’87

John is a two-time graduate of the IU Bloomington campus. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in history at the College of Arts and Sciences and then earned his law degree at the Maurer School of Law. John has served on the Neal-Marshall Alumni Club Board beginning in 2019 and on the IUAA Executive Council from 2021 to 2024. In October 2024, he joined the Maurer School of Law Alumni Board. As an undergraduate, John was active in the Singing Hoosiers and IU Soul Revue. Professionally, John is a claims specialist with Progressive Insurance in the greater Indianapolis area.

Hometown:

Westfield, Ind.

Shishir Deshpande

Manager at Large, 2023–2026

LLM’06

Shishir earned the Master of Laws in 2006 from the McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis. He has been chapter president of the Delhi chapter since 2016, past member of the Executive Council from 2020 to 2023, and has served as chair on the inaugural IU McKinney Dean’s Global Advisory Council. He is a practicing attorney and is Advocate on Record, Supreme Court of India. He was honored with the Volunteer Leadership Award in 2022.

Hometown:

Delhi, India

Jason Gerdom

Manager at Large, 2025–2028

BS’97

Jason is senior support operations coordinator at Harvard Business School. Jason has been a two-term at-large member of the Executive Council and has served on the Assessment and Finance Committees. Additionally, he was president, vice president, and board member of the Boston chapter of the IUAA Board from 2007 to 2021. He is dedicated to scholarship fundraising to help students from the New England area and established the Gerdom Family Scholarship in 2024, and for his outstanding leadership, he was awarded the Volunteer Leadership Award in 2024.

Hometown:

Watertown, Mass.

Jeannie Infante

Manager at Large, 2025–2027

MA’03

Jeannie Infante began serving IU in 1999 with the Center on Philanthropy. She continued with the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and has volunteered with multiple IU Indianapolis committees. In 2013, she joined the IUAA nominating committee, later serving as secretary, manager at large, and chair of the Board of Managers. She currently serves as vice president of advancement for the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.

Hometown:

Zionsville, Ind.

Shelley Raper

Manager at Large, 2025–2026

BS’85

Shelley has served as a Kelley School of Business volunteer in various roles on the KSOB Alumni Association Board of Directors, connecting with students as an Industry Connections panelist, and partnering with faculty on special Compass projects. She was an IUAA Executive Council member and on the Finance Committee from 2016 to 2022. She has been awarded the IU Bicentennial Medal in 2019 and the Kelley Alumni Leadership Award in 2022. Shelley works as the corporate relations manager at Brooke’s Place and is currently the board chair of We R Richmond Scholarships Inc.

Hometown:

Fishers, Ind.

Stacie Richter

Manager at Large, 2025–2028

BA’06

Stacie served two terms as Member at Large on the IUAA Executive Council where she has been an active participant on the Assessment and Belonging Committees. She held critical leadership positions, including president and vice president, of the Twin Cities chapter of the IUAA since 2009. Stacie and her husband are proud former owners of Transit Team, Inc., a company providing transportation services to elderly and disabled persons across the Twin Cities area. After selling the business in 2021, Stacie served as vice president of people and culture at Beacon Mobility after its acquisition of Transit Team.

Hometown:

Wayzata, Minn.

Dawn Michele Whitehead

Immediate Past Chair, 2025–2026

BA’97, MS’03, PhD’07

Dawn is the vice president of the Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers at the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Dawn has been a participant in the Washington, D.C. Chapter of IUAA and has served in leadership positions on the Neal Marshall Alumni Club board. She is an active member of IU’s Women’s Philanthropy Leadership Council and a partner of IU’s Black Philanthropy Circle. In 2021, Dawn was named an inaugural member of the Institute of International Education’s National Academy for International Education.

Hometown:

Washington, D.C.

Aidan Lyman

Student Representative, 2025–2026

Aidan is a senior studying Finance, Accounting, and Business Analytics at the Kelley School of Business at IU Bloomington. He most recently served as the Director of Alumni Engagement for Kelley Student Government and as a Student Coordinator for Camp Kelley, a program helping first-year students acclimate to their first moments on campus. Professionally, he has spent the last two summers with Foxhole Equity, aiding multiple portfolio companies in strategic acquisitions, asset management, and scaling operations. He is planning to graduate from the IU Bloomington campus in May 2026.

Hometown:

Cincinnati, Ohio