MOST of Us - Who We Are

Jeff Linkenbach, Ed.D. - Project Director
Jeff Linkenbach, Ed.D. is a consultant, faculty member in the Department of Health & Human Development at Montana State University and Director of the Montana Social Norms Project. His expert opinion and technical assistance is frequently sought after by...

Gary Lande, M.D. - Associate Director and Senior Research Fellow
Gary M. Lande, M.D. is a faculty member of several departments at Montana State University-Bozeman. He is an Adjunct Instructor of Management in the College of Business; an Adjunct Professor of Medical Science in the multi-state WWAMI Medical Program; and...

Debbie Strachan - Business Manager
Debbie has 29 years of financial and public service experience. She worked in banking for seven years (four as operations officer), and has been a bookkeeper for 24 years. For a change of pace, she worked construction for seven...

Diane Hipp, C.P.S. - Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator
Diane Hipp, C.P.S., is a Certified Prevention Professional and a certified School Counselor with over twenty years of experience in substance abuse prevention. Her arenas of work have included elementary and secondary prevention education, parenting education, prevention curriculum development...

Jerome Evans, Ph.D. - Quantitative & Qualitative Analysis Evaluator
Dr. Evans is a research psychologist with over thirty five years of experience in program evaluation and research. Jerry received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Univeristy of Portland in 1968. He is presently a member of the Institutional...

Valerie Roche, M.F.A. - Program Manager
Valerie Roche has a decade of experience as a writer and editor. She received her Bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies from Williams College in Massachusetts, after which she spent several years doing research and writing for environmental organizations on...

Rachel Turnage - Technical Writing Specialist and Research Assistant
Rachel is currently serving at MOST of Us as a summer Technical Writing Specialist and Research Assistant. She graduated from Berea College in May, 2002 with a B.A. in English Literature and is currently pursuing her M.A. in English...

Roberta Greene - Media Relations & Strategic Communications
Ms. Greene is a leading corporate and entertainment public relations, promotions and marketing specialist. She has had over twenty-five years of creating corporate image and personality campaigns; positioning and repositioning products; both at the retail level and with trade and...

Seetha Srinivasan, B.A - Community Liaison
Seetha is currently serving at MOST of Us as a member of the Americorps VISTA program through the Prevention Resource Center. In addition to assisting in the coordination and research of various campaigns, she is the main coordinator of the...

Amy Baily - Project Development Specialist
Amy Baily has worked as a consultant, researcher, writer and editor since 1997. She spent four years at Oxygen Media, LLC, where she wrote online columns and other content, worked on branding and marketing, and wrote copy for consumer...

Brian Lande, M.A. - Research Fellow
Brian Lande is a graduate student in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also affiliated with the Center for Urban Ethnography. Growing up in Montana after spending his childhood in Philadelphia, PA, where he was homeschooled, Brian...

Nancy Lande, M.A. - Technical Writing Specialist and Research Assistant
Nancy is currently serving at MOST of Us as a Technical Writing Specialist and Research Assistant. She graduated from University of Southern School in 1969 with a B.S. in Psychology and Education. She received her M.A. in Native...

jennifer bauerle, Ph.D. - Research Fellow
jennifer bauerle is a Health Educator and Researcher in the Office of Health Promotion at the University of Virginia. She coordinates the social norms marketing project to reduce high-risk drinking and has developed and implemented health programs with high...

Alan Berkowitz Ph.D. - Research Fellow
Alan Berkowitz is an independent consultant who helps colleges, universities, public health agencies and communities design programs that address health and social justice issues. His expert opinion is frequently sought after by the federal government and professional organizations, and he...

Jan Brown, OBE - Research Fellow
Jan is a serving UK police officer. She worked as Sales Managers in the private sector prior to joining the Police in 1991 Since that time with her colleague Steve Greenacre she accumulated a...

Robert Chapman, Ph.D. - Research Fellow
Dr. Robert J. Chapman is an experienced practitioner, trainer, and program consultant in the area of alcohol and other drug (AOD) services. He has developed and implemented AOD programs for both the inpatient and intensive outpatient treatment of alcohol and...

William DeJong, Ph.D. - Research Fellow
William DeJong, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Boston University School of Public Health. From 1995-2004, Bill served as Director of the U.S. Department of Education�s Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other...

Tim Dunnagan, Ed.D. - Research Fellow
Dr. Dunnagan is an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator within the Department of Health and Human Development at Montana-State University-Bozeman. During the past 17 years Dr. Dunnagan has been involved in a variety of health interventions within worksites and...

Patricia Fabiano, Ph.D. - Research Fellow
Dr. Patricia Fabiano serves as Specialty Faculty in Educational Leadership Department of Western Washington University� Woodring College of Education. She was the Director of Western�s Prevention and Wellness Services from 1991 to 2005, where she developed a model college...

Inspector Steve Greenacre - Research Fellow
British police officers Sergeant Jan Brown and Inspector Steven Greenacre have successfully piloted a scheme in the United Kingdom to improve community safety. Both were involved in the 'Citysafe' project which succeeded in transforming Manchester City from a dangerous and...

Thomas M. Griffin, Ph.D., M.S.W - Research Fellow
Tom is Associate Director of the Minnesota Institute of Public Health. In that capacity, he serves as the Evaluator for CSAP�s Central Region Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT). He has previously served as Director of...

Linda Hancock Ph.D. - Research Fellow
Linda Hancock is a Family Nurse Practitioner who has provided health care to students at Virginia Commonwealth University since 1987. Her work in clinic with college students has led her to develop numerous prevention education programs. Linda has done all...

George Haynes, Ph.D. - Research Fellow
Associate Professor, Department of Health and Human Development, Montana State University

Programs and Research Projects

Family Business
• Intermingling of family and business resources, primarily money and time
• Financial structure of family-owned small businesses
• Debt structure of minority-owned small businesses
• Financial behavior of small businesses in economically...

Wade Hill, Ph.D., APRN, BC - Research Fellow
Dr. Wade Hill's main research interests are behavioral aspects of home environmental health management; environmental health tracking; risk communication in environmental health; psychosocial determinants of health. Dr. Hill currently directs the Montana performance site of the Environmental Risk Reduction through...

Koreen Johannessen, M.S.W. - Senior Advisor for Prevention
Koreen Johannessen is the Senior Advisor for Prevention at The University of Arizona Campus Health Service. She is a national consultant and trainer in the social norms approach and co-author of A Practical Guide to Alcohol Abuse Prevention: A...

Sarah Keller, Ph.D. - Research Fellow
Over the past six years, Dr. Keller has developed a service learning curriculum that has been well attended by students and enthusiastically received by the community. Student support has been demonstrated by ongoing enrollment in the new courses from diverse...

Jason Kilmer, Ph.D. - Research Fellow
Dr. Jason Kilmer received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Washington in 1997. Since the Fall of 1999, he has been working in the Counseling Center at The Evergreen State College as the school's Addictive Behaviors...

Melissa A. Lewis, Ph.D. - Research Fellow
Melissa A. Lewis, Ph.D., is faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Lewis received her doctorate in Health and Social Psychology from North Dakota State University in 2005 and completed her postdoctoral...

Darren Lubbers Ph.D. - Research Fellow
Dr. Darren Lubbers received his Ph.D. degree in Educational Psychology from Wayne State University in 2005, his Masters degree from Wayne State University in 1996, and his Bachelor�s degree from the University of Michigan in 1986. His doctoral dissertation incorporated...

H. Wesley Perkins, Ph.D. - Evaluation Consultant
H. Wesley Perkins received the B.A. in Sociology from Purdue University, an M.Div. degree from Yale Divinity School, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University. He is an evaluation consultant to MOST of Us and a Professor...

Roger Svendsen, M.S., C.P.P.R. - Research Fellow
Roger is a senior staff member at the Minnesota Institute of Public Health where he is Coordinator of Program Development and Training. In this capacity Roger has served as Prevention Specialist for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention�s Central...

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