President: Steven Lawyer, Ph.D. , is an associate professor of psychology at Idaho State University. He received his PhD (Clinical Psychology) from Auburn University in 2002 after earning his BA in psychology from Western Michigan University. His research focuses on several different areas, including impulsive and risky choice, anxiety, and trauma. His work is published journals such as Behavioural Processes, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, and Journal of Behavior The5py and Experimental Psychiatry. His clinical work focuses on the assessment and treatment of anxiety and mood disorder
Vice-President: Travis Blevins, M.S., BCBA , has been providing services for individuals with special needs for 16 years. He has a masters degree in Behavior Analysis from the University of North Texas. Travis is a founding member, past board of director, and president elect of the Four Corners Association of Behavior Analysis. Travis has spoken and presented research findings at several national conferences. He has a passion for developing evidence-based treatments, and using empirically validated interventions to increase the independence and inclusion of individuals with special needs. Travis is committed to the dissemination of the principles of applied behavior analysis, and the transference of pragmatic technology to administrators, care-givers, parents, staff, and family members of individuals with disabilities. Travis has a vision for changing the landscape of Colorado's current ABA services improving accessibility, quality, effectual outcomes, and adherence to data-based empirical treatment. Travis lives in Lafayette, Colorado with his beautiful wife and two children.
Secretary: Michele R. Bishop, Ph.D., BCBA-D earned an Ed.S. in school psychology from the University of Central Florida and a Ph.D. in psychology (behavior analysis) from the University of Nevada, Reno under the direction of Dr. Patrick Ghezzi. She has been a National Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) since 2005 and a doctorate level BCBA-D since 2009. She has held positions as a school psychologist in Orange County, Florida, a behavioral consultant for the UNR Early Childhood Autism Outreach Program, and served as the associate director for the UNR Early Childhood Autism Program for 4 years. She has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in ABA for the University of Nevada, Reno and Arizona State University. Currently, she is a research and development manager at the Center for Autism and Related Disorders.
Treasurer: Nicole Bank, M.S., BCBA received her undergraduate degrees at the University of Colorado-Boulder in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences and in Psychology. She received her master's degree in Behavior Analysis from the University of North Texas. She is a member of the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA), the Association for Behavior Analysis Autism SIG and the Texas Association for Behavior Analysis (TXABA). Nicole has been working with children with autism for 10 years as an implementer, a senior therapist and a consultant. She has experience in mand training, play skills, PECS training, fluency based instruction, token systems, behavior reduction, toilet training, intensive feeding treatments and enjoys developing individualized treatment programs for a wide range of skill sets. Nicole also enjoys developing efficient data systems, training parents and school personnel in behavior analytic technologies, and applying basic research findings to the applied setting. She is currently a behavior analyst at Developmental Behavioral Health, Inc. DBH, Inc. has the highest concentration of behavior analysts in Southern Colorado.
Student Representative: Ehren Werntz, M.S., BCBA is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and graduate of Arizona State University. Ehren holds degrees in Special Education and Psychology and has formal training and work experience from The Institute for Applied Behavior Analysis and The Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center. Ehren has worked in the field of autism treatment and education for ten years as a special education teacher, interventionist, consultant, trainer, public speaker, and adjunct faculty at Arizona State. He is currently the Program Director at Arizona Autism United, a non-profit, human service co-op devoted to providing behavioral services to help those affected by autism. He is a member of the Association for Behavior Analysis International and the Arizona Association for Behavior Analysis. Ehren lives in Phoenix with his wife and son where he enjoys hiking, camping, changing diapers and finding shaded parking spots.
Director: Peter Killeen, Ph.D. "The stars have always inspired us mere mortals. For me, the greatest inspiration was an artificial star. The first Sputnik satellite took flight when I was entering college, and I swore that I would try to achieve something as momentous as that bit of earth raised to the heavens. It is good to have such goals, and great luck of time and place to have a context to attempt them. And perhaps the wisdom of age to understand that it is the attempting more than the achieving that matters. Inspired by Skinner, in my early career I sought a general theory of how reinforcers control behavior; later, I studied what it means to understand a thing scientifically. In that I was aided both by the wisdom of the ancients-Aristotle's in particular-and the technology of the moderns-Aikaike in particular. Most recently I struggle to understand the nature of special conditions of humanity, such as the trait called ADHD, and the habit called tobacco addiction. Except when spending sabbaticals at places such as Cambridge England, and Oslo Norway, I live near Phoenix Arizona, where I enjoy hiking in the desert mountains, practicing Aikido, and trying to grow a garden."
Director: Andrew Gardner, Ph.D., BCBA is a behavior analyst who specializes in providing services based on Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) principles to children and families. Andrew is initially from Tucson, Arizona and earned his masters degree in School Psychology from Utah State University with an internship (focused in applied behavior analysis and autism spectrum disorders) at the Fred S. Keller School in Yonkers, NY. He earned his Ph.D. in School Psychology from the University of Iowa specializing in the functional analysis/assessment of problem behavior. After a pre-doctoral internship and a post-doctoral fellowship in Pediatrics at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, he was hired as an assistant professor in the department of psychology at Northern Arizona University. Andrew specializes in outpatient evaluation and intervention (behavioral and educational) of problem behavior displayed by children with and without disabilities. He has published in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and International Pediatrics. Outside of work, Andrew enjoys hiking and traveling with his wife and three boys.
Board Member: Jeff Kupfer, Ph.D., BCBA-D is a licensed psychologist in Massachusetts, Colorado and Nebraska, and a doctorate level board certified behavior analyst. He is a founder and member of the Board of Trustees for the Cambridge Center for Behavior Studies. He is the Past President of the Four Corners Association for Behavior Analysis. Jeff serves on the adjunct faculty of the University of Colorado-Denver.
Jeff received his doctoral degree in psychology from the University of Florida, specializing in the experimental analysis of behavior where he conducted research in animal models of learning and psychopathology. He has practiced in outpatient clinics, schools, in-patient hospitals, nursing homes and residential settings, and has treated severe behavioral disorders such as aggression and self-destructive behaviors. He has extensive experience treating persons with brain injury, pervasive developmental disabilities, autism, mental illness, and other neurologically-based disorders, and has published articles in the areas of behavior analysis, pharmacology and visual impairments.
Jeff has been a guest reviewer for the journal The Behavior Analyst. He consults, lectures, and provides guest commentaries for newspapers and radio. His additional interests are cultural evolution and behavioral paleoanthropology or "the behavior of old, dead stuff". Jeff is currently writing his second novel.