Members Profile

Jeremy Maxand is the Executive Director of the Living Independence Network Corporation, or LINC, one of Idaho’s three Centers for Independent Living. Jeremy grew up in a small island community in Southeast Alaska and has used a manual wheelchair since 1989. He moved to Idaho in the early nineties to attend Boise State University, where he earned undergraduate degrees in Criminal Justice Administration and Sociology, and a graduate degree is Applied Historical Research. Jeremy holds a certificate from the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Policy & Governance Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute, and from the University of Missouri’s College of Human & Environmental Sciences, School of Architectural Studies, ADA Coordinator Training Certification Program. Jeremy has more than twenty years of nonprofit management experience, and 10 years in executive leadership. He serves on several committees and boards, including the Ada County Highway District ADA Advisory Committee, the State of Idaho Building Code Board, the Idaho Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster Board, the Idaho State Independent Living Council, the Our Path Home Executive Committee, and the Idaho Access Project Board. In addition to his work at LINC, he has been an adjust faculty instructor of sociology at Boise State University for the past 17 years. Jeremy lives in Boise with his wife Maria.