MACDA is pleased to announce that due to the very important contributions to MACDA and the field of career development over the years, we have recognized two individuals as MACDA Honorary Lifetime Members.

   Haley Brown, M.Ed, CCSP

   In March 2023, Haley Brown was the first individual to be recognized as an Honorary Lifetime Member of our Massachusetts 
   Career Development Association (MACDA), one of the oldest State Divisions in the 112 year-old history of the National Career
   Development Association (NCDA). Her efforts have literally transformed our MACDA visibility with our recent website to 
   facilitate membership growth and engagement, bringing us into the 21st Century!

Haley is a member of our NEC (New England Consortium-NCDA State CDAs) sister CDA, the Maine Career Development Association (MCDA). She served on the MCDA Board for many years, including as membership chair and technology guru for virtual events.

She was awarded MCDA's "Career Professional of the Year" in 2023. Haley works as a Student Services Coordinator at the University of Maine at Augusta, where she directs the UMA Career Connections program and provides career counseling to many students including her responsibilities as an academic advisor. Haley is committed to her work and brings her strong advocacy to facilitate and empower student learning and student success, including her efforts with alumni.

Notes from Ed Colozzi, MACDA President

Haley was selected for her wonderful support and discretionary efforts for our first-ever MACDA website to finally give us a virtual presence in our Commonwealth of Massachusetts, social media, and the end of snail mail to facilitate membership growth and engagement.

Haley, we truly appreciate and deeply value your ideas and competence, your creativity, brilliant insights, humor, amazing positive attitude and mostly your wonderful caring heart, all of which have surely contributed immensely to our MACDA. Thank you Haley!
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   Dr. Spencer "Skip" Niles, Ed.D

    In February 2025, Dr. Spencer "Skip" Niles was been recognized as the second Honorary Lifetime Member of our
    MACDA. Skip is a counselor education professor at William & Mary, where he was previously Dean of the School of
    Education and ranked among the top education deans in the US.

    He has held positions at several other universities, including Johns Hopkins and Penn State. He is the only person to
    serve twice as President of the National Career Development Association (NCDA) in its 112th-year old history. He is an
    NCDA Fellow, recipient of NCDA Eminent Career-Award, past-two-term Editor of the NCDA Career Development
    Quarterly, and the past Editor of the ACA Journal of Counseling & Development.

    Skip is President-Elect for the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) & Past-Editor of ACES Journal,
    and recipient of ACES Legacy Award. He has an extensive record of publications and has delivered more than 170 presentations on career development theory and practice nationally/globally in over 30 countries, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Finish Institute for Educational Research. Book Authority lists four of his books among the top 100 best-selling career development books of all time.

Notes from Ed Colozzi, MACDA President

On a more personal note, Skip invited me to serve as Chair of our NCDA Membership Committee in his first term as NCDA President 2003-04. We worked closely together, and he supported efforts to create the Each One Reach One (EORO) Membership initiative. He and NCDA Executive Director Deneen Pennington and her wonderful executive team supported the idea of having our first of five International Teleconferences for interested stakeholders nationally and globally.

Skip was the first person I had approached when I had the idea to form our NEC in 2017 to collaborate with the Presidents of our six New England NCDA State Divisions including the Joint VT/NH State CDA. He thought it was a good idea, and I proceeded to work with Amy Jaffe, past-president of the Maine Career Development Association (MCDA), who hosted our monthly Zoom monthly calls for three years during which our founding members had many discussions to eventually formulate our NEC. Skip decided to run for President again, and in the last few months of his second term as NCDA President, our NEC submitted our White Paper and Mission & Values Statement, and our NEC Guidelines for formal recognition by NCDA in 2019.

Skip, the most important aspect of your accomplishments is the source of your success which is your gift, your charism to foster right relationships with others for the highest and best. You use your gift of right relationship as a collaborative leader, a mentor, a colleague and friend to empower and inspire others to be their best potential. Thank you Skip!