Bill Barker
Senior Director, External Relations & Policy, FirstGen Forward
Bill Barker serves as senior director of External Relations and Policy with FirstGen Forward. He has twenty-five years of experience in communications and marketing, development and fundraising, alumni and media relations, and strategic communications across the higher education and non-profit industries. Prior to joining FirstGen Forward, he held roles at the University of Iowa, University of Michigan-Flint, and Advocates for Youth, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization.
A graduate of the College of Wooster, Bill now resides in Indiana with his wife, Tess, Executive Director of the Association for Student Conduct Administration (ASCA), and his daughter, Izzy.