Casey Dinges serves as the Senior Managing Director of Public Affairs, Membership and Marketing for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). His purview includes Government Relations, Communications, Civil Engineering Magazine, Infrastructure Initiatives, K-12 Outreach and Diversity Programs, as well as the Society’s Membership and Marketing/Sales Divisions. He has been with the Society since 1985. During this time, numerous programs under his leadership have won national awards and recognitions from such organizations as the American Society of Association Executives, the Construction Writers Association of America, and the American League of Lobbyists. Mr. Dinges headed the team that developed ASCE’s highly regarded Infrastructure Report Card program, which has become the definitive source on the state of America’s infrastructure, regularly cited by elected officials, including the President of the United States, and the media. The most recent Infrastructure Report Card was released in March 2017, and can be found at infrastructurereportcard.org. In addition, he forged strategic partnerships to bring about ASCE’s national sponsorship of the Peabody Award winning PBS Series “Building Big” in 2000 and the “Great Projects” series on PBS in 2002. This alliance with PBS positioned ASCE to launch the”Zoom into Engineering” legacy project as part of the Society’s leadership of National Engineers Week during 2002. ASCE was also involved in the NOVA special “Why the Towers Fell,” which won the 2003 Emmy Award for Best Documentary. ASCE’s 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure Campaign received the Marketing Communications Award for Public Relations, the Web site Award from the Construction Writers Association in 2005, and the 2006 ASAE Gold Circle Award for Communications. As a recognized leading industry advocate for the nation’s infrastructure, Mr. Dinges has appeared in many media outlets including ABC News, NPR, CNN, USA Today, New York Times, Fox, Bloomberg, PBS News Hour, CNBC, NBC News, C-SPAN and the McLaughlin Group. Casey worked on Capitol Hill during the late 1970s as the LBJ Intern and then as Legislative Assistant to Illinois Congressman Sidney R. Yates, former Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies. From 1979 to 1982, Dinges served as Washington Representative for the National Audubon Society. In 1982, Dinges became the Director of Public Affairs for the Environmental Fund in Washington, DC, a position he held until joining ASCE in 1985. Casey is a native of Chicago, Illinois. The Valedictorian speaker of his 1975 Francis W. Parker High School class, he went on to earn a B.A. (cum laude) in Government from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, in 1979. His undergraduate honors thesis examined federal water resource development policies. He is married to Kelly Barnes and has three children, Erica (23), Jeremy (21), and Abigail (7). ASCE, which was founded in 1852, is the oldest national professional engineering society. The Society has more than 150,000 members who work in all levels of government, academia, research, construction and private consulting firms.