Mark Keppler

Mark Keppler is the Kenneth L. Maddy Professor of Public Affairs and the Executive Director of The Maddy Institute, the public policy/public affairs institute for the Valley’s four public universities:  Univ. of Calif., Merced, Fresno State, Cal State Stanislaus and Cal State Bakersfield.. Among his activities are leading the Institute’s legislative scholar intern program, editing the Maddy Daily e-newsletter and hosting The Maddy Report, a weekly half-hour public affairs tv program focusing on California politics and public policy issues (airing on Sundays on ABC 30 (KFSN) - Fresno’s ABC, as well as Valley Views, a weekly hour long public affairs radio program/podcast focusing on Central Valley issues airing on Sundays on Newstalk 580/105.9 KMJ.  Mark is also professor in the Craig School of Business at California State University, Fresno where he teaches labor relations and employment law, and is an active mediator with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and labor-management arbitrator with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.  He is also the founder and chair of the Clovis Community Foundation and sits or has sat on numerous boards including the California Rails to Trails Conservancy, the United Way of Fresno, and the Fresno County Measure C (transportation) and City of Fresno Measure P (parks) steering committees.