diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 32c8c4df..13a66252 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Authors@R: c(
     person("Danton", "Noriega-Goodwin", role = c("aut"), email = "danton.noriega@gmail.com"),
     person("Flavio", "Poletti", role = c("aut"), email = "flavio.poletti@hotmail.ch"),
     person("Angela", "Li", role = c("aut"), email = "angela@rladies.org"),
-    person("Mark", "Padgham", role = c("ctb"), email = "mark.padgham@email.com"),
+    person("Mark", "Padgham", role = c("aut"), email = "mark.padgham@email.com"),
     person("Elaine", "McVey", role = c("ctb"), email = "elaine.mcvey@transloc.com"),
     person("Charles Hans", "Thompson", role = c("ctb"), email = "hans.thompson1@gmail.com"),
     person("Michael", "Sumner", role = c("ctb")),