Amber Reed
President

Bremen High School
511 W. Grant Street,
Bremen, IN 46506

 Amber Reed earned a BS from Indiana University South Bend in Marketing with a concentration in Advertising. She then obtained her teaching certification in Business Education from Bethel College and her M.A.E in Business Education with vocational endorsement from Ball State University. She taught her first year at South Bend John Adams High School, and just completed her 5th year at Bremen High School. At BHS, Amber is the STUCO Advisor, Spell Bowl Coach, and the DECA Advisor. She is the ICE Coordinator at Bremen, and teaches 8th Grade Keyboarding, Marketing, Desktop Publishing, and Web Design. Amber’s two sons keep her busy as well as her photography business and also enjoys scrapbooking. 

John Dawson
President Elect

Hagerstown Jr.-Sr. High School
701 Baker Road
Hagerstown, IN 47346

John earned a BS from Ball State University in Accounting.  After being an Insurance Premium Auditor for two years, he returned to Ball State and earned his teaching certificate in Business Education, Vocational Business Certification, and MAE in Secondary Education.  John taught two years at Tucker Area Career Center as the ICE Coordinator and Computer Programming Lab Instructor.  For the last eleven years, he has taught at Hagerstown Junior-Senior High School, his alma mater.   Currently, he teaches Accounting I & II and Business Technology Lab; coordinates the interns; and serves as the Business Department Chair, Business Professionals of America (BPA) Advisor, High Schools That Work Site Coordinator and Professional Development Specialist for his corporation.  He also is adjunct faculty at IUPUI and serves on the Indiana BPA Executive Board and Griffith Insurance Education Foundation Advisory Council.  He enjoys traveling, reading and spending time with his family.

Dena Irwin
Past President

Shakamak Jr./Sr. High
Route #2, Box 42
Jasonville, IN 47438

Dena Irwin is serving as our new president and is an ISU graduate.  Dena has been teaching since 1994.  She currently teaches for Shakamak High School, Linton-Stockton High School and is an adjunct faculty member for Vincennes University.  Dena has taught computer applications, personal finance, career planning, professional career internship, business foundations, keyboarding, web design, desktop publishing, business communications, and entrepreneurship.  Dena is a BPA advisor and serves on the Griffith Insurance Education Foundation National Advisory Council and Indiana International Student Exchange Committee.  In her spare time Dena volunteers at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.  Dena has been married to Brian for 25 years.  They have two sons:  Cory is an ISU graduate who majored in professional flight.  Lance is a sophomore at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology majoring in biomedical engineering.

Jason Hendrickson
NCBEA Representative

Danville Community High School
100 Warrior Way
Danville, IN 46122

Past President

Jason Hendrickson attended Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana where he majored in Business Education and minored in Information Processing.  He currently has been teaching in the Danville Community School Corporation for five years, serving as a business educator in the Business/Technology Department.  He has been responsible for the marketing program, school bookstore, and their local Business Professionals of America chapter.  He also serves as the Auditorium Director for the high school.  Since starting his career he has served on many local committees, and has served on the Indiana Business Education Association and Business Professionals of America, Indiana Association executive boards.  His research studies include curriculum development and career and technical education.  He is finishing work on a Masters in Career and Technical Education.  In his spare time he enjoys reading, traveling, and spending time with his family. 

Michelle currently teaches marketing at Westfield High School where she has taught for over five years.  She was awarded the Outstanding New Advisor for the DECA student organization. Before teaching at Westfield, Michelle taught in Iowa for seven years.  She completed her BA at Grand View College there and her Master’s from Vitero University in Wisconsin.

Amy Holingsworth
Treasurer

Treasurer

Amy received her B.S. in Business Education and her M.A.E. in Business
Education with Vocational Endorsement from Ball State University. She
has taught business and marketing for the past 13 years. Amy has
enjoyed working on several curriculum writing teams, training fellow
teachers, and working with BPA and DECA. When Amy is not working, she
is running around with her to two very active kids, who play baseball,
basketball, and golf.

Karen Podell
Web Master

Karen has served as the department chair at Westfield High School for 13 years.  Her primary teaching areas include web design, programming, and computer applications.  She earned a BA in business education from Goshen College in 1995 and her MS in education from IUK in 2009.  Karen has served on the IBEA board for four years as the web master and for two years as a regional representative.  Her professional memberships are IBEA, NBEA, ISTA, and her local teacher’s association.  Karen received the Ilpalco Golden Apple in 2000 and the Entrepreneurship Consortium Scholarship in 2007.

Becky Milner
Publications

Linda Szewc
Membership

Linda attended Ball State University and received B.S. in Business Education and M.S. in Education with Vocational Endorsement from Butler University.  She taught Business Education at Tri-West High School for 26 years, retiring in 2004.  Linda sponsored cheerleaders and BPA chapter for several years.  She has been a member of IBEA, NBEA, and IACTE for several years.  Linda has been the secretary for IBEA for several years and Membership Chairperson for several years.  In her free time, Linda’s retired activities include working in the Gift Shop at Beef and Boards Dinner Theater, volunteering in several areas at Connection Pointe Christian Church of Brownsburg, reading, walking, traveling, swimming, and having lunch with friends.

 
Barb Beadle
Independent Consultant for Professional Development

IBEA Professional Development

Barbara Beadle served as the IDOE program specialist for business, marketing, and information technology for the last 19 years.  Her work at the DOE involved working with teachers and administrators to continue to promote business and marketing education. Barb is now working with IBEA as an independent consultant in the areas of curriculum and professional development. In her free time, Barb enjoys playing golf and spending time with her grandchildren.  She loves to watch them play basketball, baseball and soccer. 

Lawrence (Larry) Ruiz
Student Representative