President: Oscar Jerome Stewart, PhD, Assistant Professor of Management, University of San Francisco, ojstewart@usfca.edu.

Oscar Jerome Stewart earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina Charlotte’s Interdisciplinary Organizational Science Program. He is an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of San Francisco. Professor Stewart has been recognized globally for his teaching innovation, is concerned with power within organizations and power of organizations, and how to create more equitable and cooperative power structures that bind members together in a beneficent mutuality. Currently, Professor Stewart is working on projects on corporate misconduct, discrimination in higher education, and critical pedagogy. In his spare time, he loves to rehabilitate troubled dogs and can be seen traversing the Bay Area with his two dogs, Sho Nuff the Shogun and Assata Shakur. 

Communications Chair: Tanja R Darden, PhD, Assistant Professor, Towson University, tdarden@towson.edu

Tanja R. Darden, Assistant Professor, received her Ph.D. from Georgia State University. Her research interests include employee-employer relationships, psychological contracts, and diversity and inclusion. She recently developed a course on diversity, equity and inclusion in management for the College of Business and Economics, the first DEI course of its kind to be offered in the college. She was also selected as a TU Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Fellow for 2021-2022 to further advance her DEI research. She has published in the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology. With BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering, she brings nearly 20 years of information technology consulting business experience to the classroom and her research.  

Treasurer: Daniel Milner, PhD, Assistant Professor of Management, Oklahoma State University, daniel.milner@okstate.edu

Daniel Milner is Assistant Professor of Management at Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business. He holds a PhD in Management & Organizations from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, and a BS from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His research reflects his training as an organizational sociologist, with interests including institutional theory, critical management studies, temporality and process, microsociology, and qualitative methods. He teaches Strategic Management as the senior capstone course to OSU’s undergraduate business management students. Outside the academy, he enjoys music, cooking, and soccer/football.

Secretary: Akwasi Opoku-Dakwa, PhD, Associate Professor, Duquesne University, adakwa@gmail.com

Dr. Opoku-Dakwa is an Associate Professor at Duquesne University’s School of Business Administration and the Chair of the Management and Marketing Department. He has taught courses including taught principles of management, human resource management, organizational behavior, and business ethics at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and his prior business experience includes information technology consulting and marketing of consumer goods. His research examines the role of ethics theory in organizational decision-making and how societal expectations of corporate responsibility affect employees’ experience of work and vice versa. In addition to his membership in the Management Faculty of Color Association, Dr. Opoku-Dakwa is also a member of the Academy of Management and the International Association for Business and Society.

Immediate Past President: Montressa Washington, PhD, Assistant Professor of Management, Shenandoah University, mwashing2@su.edu

Montressa Washington, Ph.D, is the director of Shenandoah University’s Institute for Entrepreneurship and is an assistant professor of management in the Shenandoah University School of Business. Dr. Washington worked in management consulting for 17 years, specializing in change management, technology adoption and business transformation before transitioning into academia. She teaches courses in entrepreneurship and design thinking. She holds a Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) SCP certification and teaches courses in human resources at the university as well as for SHRM. She enjoys mentoring and coaching students about career choices as well as nominating high-performing students to the Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society, of which she is a member.

Washington’s education credentials include a doctorate in management from Case Western Reserve University, an MBA in international business and marketing from Johns Hopkins University, and a bachelor’s in English from the University of Maryland College Park. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Zonta International, and Leaderships Maryland and Howard County.