Michael Kamphuis is currently the Managing Director of the Division of Education at Conn-Selmer, Inc., an Elkhart, Indiana based musical instrument manufacturer. In this role, he leads a team with the mission to create opportunities for music industry and music education to work collaboratively in support of music education worldwide and was appointed to the steering committee of the Indiana Arts Education Network in 2016. He is also a delegate for the National Association of Music Merchants, representing Indiana and Michigan to lobby in support of music education at the annual “Fly-In” in Washington D.C. which helped pass the Every Student Succeeds Act in December 2015. Michael received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Elkhart Jazz Festival and the Distinguished Service Award from the Historically Black Colleges and Universities National Band Directors Consortium in 2016 and Distinguished Alumni Award for Achievement from the University of Wisconsin at Parkside in 2018. Michael resides in Schoolcraft, Michigan with his wife Sarah and two daughters, Sadie and Norah.