Leadership Academy Committee

Ned has almost 40 years of experience working with non-profit organizations, primarily in membership, continuing education, and event planning. Ned serves as the Executive Director for CAPCSD. 

In his new position, Ned will provide extensive support to the Board of Directors and its committees, manage the membership program, contribute to annual conference planning, and supervise The Lisa Scott Leadership Academy, DEI Academy, and Admissions Summit. He will coordinate scholarships, oversee professional development initiatives, and maintain the organization's website. Ned will manage the CAPCSD Team, administration, financial record-keeping, and contract management. 

Ned is an active member of the American Society of Association Executives and serves as a volunteer for United Way.

Outside his professional endeavors, Ned enjoys spending quality time with his family in Florida and Georgia, his two dachshunds, and hiking.

Diane Millar completed her doctoral degree in speech-language pathology at Penn State University in the area of augmentative and alternative communication. She is a professor at Radford University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate students. She collaborates with students in research through undergraduate capstones and master's theses. Dr. Millar has enjoyed serving in a variety leadership positions, including the position of Chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Dr. Ying-Chiao Tsao is an ASHA board-recognized specialist in stuttering and cluttering, and the Coordinator for SIG 20 (Counseling). She has published numerous book chapters and journal articles in JSLHR, JASA, and SIG14 perspectives. Aside from researching the links between speech rates and stuttering, Dr. Tsao has committed to promoting cultural humility and undergraduate research through community outreach. She has attended numerous AI courses and received certificates and credentials, including ‘Academic Applications of AI’ and ‘AI Tools for Teaching and Learning.’

Prior to coming to Gonzaga as Dean of the School of Health Sciences, Julie Wolter, PhD, CCC-SLP was a Professor and Vice Provost for Innovation and Online Learning at the University of Montana and has a strong history working in an interdisciplinary capacity with faculty and colleagues in health, education, social science, and professional programs across academic and community settings. Dr. Wolter has an academic and clinical career of close to 25 years that includes service as Chair of the School of Speech, Language, Hearing & Occupational Sciences at the University of Montana and Chair of the Speech-Language Pathology Division in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders and Deaf Education at Utah State University. Dr. Wolter has taught various undergraduate and graduate courses in evidence-based practice, implementation science, research methods, child language literacy development, and interprofessional education. She has led the development and launch of multiple undergraduate and graduate degrees in rehabilitation, health, education, and related multidisciplinary fields. Dr. Wolter is an internationally known scholar, and her research and clinical work in language-literacy development, assessment, and intervention are widely published. She currently maintains an active research lab and is funded through an R01 with the National Institutes of Health, in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital's Interprofessional Health Program and the Royal Holloway University of London, to examine linguistic development and related assessment and intervention practices in young school children with and without dyslexia and developmental language disorder. Dr. Wolter is committed to enhancing and promoting health professional students' education, research, and clinical experiences in underserved community settings and has secured funding, such as a $1.25 million grant through the U.S. Department of Education, to support students and distance programming in rural and American Indian tribal communities throughout the Intermountain and Northwestern regions.