Dr. Darrin Grondel currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Traffic Safety for Responsibility.org and Director of the National Alliance to Stop Impaired Driving (NASID). His professional experience as the Director of the Washington Traffic Safety Commission and commander with the Washington State Patrol set the stage to lead Responsibility.org’s national efforts to eliminate drunk and drugged driving. These efforts support advocacy through federal and state legislation, financial assistance, programming, and technical assistance. A major initiative currently underway is the creation of NASID, a national coalition of subject matter experts to address multi-substance impaired driving to improve the DUI system to include training, roadside stops, toxicology, adjudication, sentencing, probation, and treatment.
Dr. Grondel serves as a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Roadway Safety Committee, the National Sheriffs Associations Traffic Safety Committee, the Transportation Research Board Impaired Driving Committee, the National Safety Council’s Alcohol, Drugs and Impaired Driving Division, the Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals Impaired Driving Data Working Group and other committees to support efforts to end impaired driving. Dr. Grondel holds an Educational Doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Brandman University, a master’s degree in Public Administration from The Evergreen State College, and a bachelor of arts degree in Political Science from Brigham Young University. He is also a graduate of Northwestern University’s School of Police Staff and Command.