Ryan Fewins-Bliss is the Executive Director of Michigan College Access Network (MCAN), ensuring MCAN is able to meet its mission by having the strategies, resources, and support necessary to reach Sixty by 30. This includes leading MCAN’s policy work, fund development, partnerships, and efforts to achieve the organization’s strategic plan.
Fewins-Bliss has worked in education and the nonprofit field for nearly 20 years, having served in K-12, higher education, and community organizations. He served as assistant director of the Student Life Center at Saginaw Valley State University and then at Michigan Campus Compact, where he served as assistant director of training and technical assistance.
Fewins-Bliss then spent the next four years consulting and supporting organizations around the state, including the Jackson College Access Center, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Education Northwest/AmeriCorps VISTA, and the Shiawassee Child Advocacy Center.
In that capacity, he consulted with MCAN from its inception in 2010. Over time, he’s served MCAN as a consultant, part-time staff member, assistant director, deputy director, and now executive director, a role he assumed in November 2019.
Ryan earned a Bachelor of Applied Arts from Central Michigan University in integrative public relations and attended CMU for graduate school as well, earning a Master of Arts in educational administration and community leadership.