Meet the newest members of the Hope College Board of Trustees

HOLLAND — Five new members have been elected to the Hope College Board of Trustees.

The college announced the additions Tuesday, July 23, along with two members receiving a second term and a new executive committee being set.

New members to the board are PJ Huizenga of Hinsdale, Illinois; Eric Keen of Nashville, Tennessee; Steven McMullen of Holland; Dara Spearman of Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Frances Traisman of Seattle, Washington. Each will serve a three-year term, with the exception of McMullen, who will serve for four years.

The new members replace Llena Chavis of Holland; Sandra Gaddy of Caledonia; Nathan Hart of Holland; David Paul of Rochester, New York; and Timothy Vande Bunte of Holland, each of whom has now concluded their time on the board.

Andrew Ohm of Seattle and Laura Paredes of Old Greenwich, Connecticut, were re-elected to serve a second, three-year term.

Stephen Boerigter of Los Alamos, New Mexico, will continue to serve as board chair, with Matthew Wixson of Ann Arbor continuing as vice chair. Victoria Brunn of Seattle has been elected secretary.

Joining Boerigter, Wixson and Brunn on the six-member executive committee are Lisa Joldersma of Washington, DC, who will chair the Protecting the Mission Committee; Ohm, who will continue as chair of the Living the Mission Committee; and Carol Van Andel of Ada, appointed chair of the Sustaining the Mission Committee.

Huizenga graduated from Hope in 1998 with a degree in accounting and earned a master’s in finance and management from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg School of Management. He is currently the managing principal at Huizenga Capital Management.

Keen is a co-founder and partner of Civitas Growth Partners, founded earlier this year to support “micro-cap software and technology-enabled service businesses.” He previously worked for a variety of middle market private equity firms.

Keen also serves on the board of Siloam Health and Currey Ingram Academy. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in finance and political science from the University of Illinois in 2000.

McMullen is a professor of economics at Hope College. He teaches microeconomic and macroeconomic theory courses, environmental economics and the history of economic thought.

He is also the executive editor of the journal Faith and Economics, hosts the podcast Faithful Economy and is a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. McMullen earned a bachelor’s in accounting from Bethel College and a doctorate in economics at the University of North Carolina.

Subscribe: Receive unlimited digital access to your local news coverage

Spearman is the owner and medical director of Fort Wayne’s Radiant Dermatology Associates, which she established last year. She has served as president of the Indiana Academy of Dermatology and as co-chair of the Indiana State Medical Society’s DEI Committee.

Spearman earned degrees in biology and psychology from Hope in 1999 before completing a medical degree at the University of Michigan Medical School in 2004.

Traisman, an alum of Hope. is the senior vice president of sales for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball. She co-founded the Seattle Chapter of Women in Sports and Events in January 2020 and is an advisory board member for the MBA in Sports and Entertainment Management at Seattle University’s Albers School of Business and Economics.

For more information, visit hope.edu .

— Contact reporter Mitchell Boatman at mboatman@hollandsentinel.com .

This article originally appeared on The Holland Sentinel: Meet the newest members of the Hope College Board of Trustees