Board of Directors

  • Anna Nichols

    CHAIR
    Director of Communications, Altair Advisers LLC

  • Penelope Sachs

    VICE CHAIR
    Evanston Symphony Orchestra, Leadership Evanston, former board member of Evanston Community Foundation

  • Debbie Singer

    TREASURER
    Senior Vice President, Advantage Capital

  • Antoinette Block

    SECRETARY
    Former Senior Director, Institutional Relationships at TIAA

  • Colette Hands, EdD, MHRM, PHR

    IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR
    Vice President, Human Resources, The Field Museum

  • Brenda B. Asare

    MEMBER
    President & CEO, The Alford Group

  • Victoria Dinges

    MEMBER
    CEO, The Dinges Gang

  • Kelly Greening

    MEMBER
    Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

  • Swathi Mothkur, M.D.

    MEMBER
    Physician, Swedish Hospital

  • Lynette Murphy

    MEMBER
    President, North Shore (IL) Chapter, The Links, Incorporated

  • Karl Peters

    MEMBER
    Co-founder, Echelon Alternative Investments

  • Kathy Rubash

    MEMBER
    Vice President, Allstate Technology & Strategic Ventures

  • Timothy Russell

    MEMBER
    Vice President of Community Engagement and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Window to the World Communications, Inc. (WWCI)

  • Kelly Terrell, PMP, DASSM

    MEMBER
    Program Manager, HR/Global Learning and Development, IBM

  • Cindy Wilson

    MEMBER
    Clinical Professor and Director of Bluhm Legal Clinic Center for Externships at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

  • Elena Zanussi

    MEMBER
    Managing Director, Executive Benefits Solutions, TIAA,