Ken Lampar has over 25 years of experience in fundraising, event planning and campaign management. He has raised money, planned events and managed campaigns for various Democratic and non-partisan candidates including candidates for the U.S. House and Senate, Michigan statewide candidates, Michigan House and Senate, countywide officials, county commissioners, local and judicial candidates, state-wide and local Democratic Party committees, and several charitable/non-profit organizations. Ken started his professional experience as a grassroots countywide organizer on a U. S. Senate campaign in Macomb County; provided five years of fundraising and administrative support in Michigan Governor James Blanchard's Executive Office and re-election campaign in 1986; three years of fundraising at the Michigan Democratic Party; and for 15 years, provided fundraising, community outreach, grant writing and administrative support in the Macomb County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. Ken's community and volunteer involvement has included projects with: • American Cancer Society and Cancer Action Network • Creating a Healthier Macomb • Macomb County Prevention Coalition • Macomb Family Services • Macomb County Tobacco Prevention Coalition • March of Dimes • United Way • Utica area Community Action Team (UCAT) Ken Lampar (right) at the Michigan Political Leadership Program, MPLP, SE Alumni event at the Charles Wright Museum Ken Lampar was born and raised in Macomb County, Michigan. He graduated from Adlai Stevenson High School in Sterling Heights, Michigan in 1975. Ken attended Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan and received his B.A. in history in 1979. He earned his Master in Public Administration degree from Western Michigan University at its Lansing Center while working for Michigan Governor James J. Blanchard in 1985. Lampar received a Fellowship for the Michigan Political Leadership Program at Michigan State University that he completed in 1995. He participated in an Executive Program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in July 1999. Ken and his wife, Deborah McMillan Lampar, an attorney, have one son, Kyle.