diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ebd61020..08f19eff 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ Version: 0.0.0.9001
 Authors@R: c(person("Isabella", "Stallworthy", email = "istall@seas.upenn.edu", role = c("aut", "cre")),
             person("Noah", "Greifer", email = "noah.greifer@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "ctb"),
 	                 comment=c(ORCID="0000-0003-3067-7154")),
-	    person("Kyle", "Butts", email = "buttskyle96@gmail.com", role = ("ctb")),
             person("Meriah", "DeJoseph", email = "meriahd@stanford.edu", role = c("aut")),
             person("Emily", "Padrutt", email = "padru004@umn.edu", role = c("aut")),
-            person("Daniel", "Berry", email = "dberry@umn.edu", role = c("aut")))
+            person("Kyle", "Butts", email = "buttskyle96@gmail.com", role = c("aut", ctb")),
+            person("Daniel", "Berry", email = "dberry@umn.edu", role = c("aut")),
+)
 Description: Functions for implementing MSMS with longitudinal data.
 License: GPL-3
 Encoding: UTF-8