Category: past speakers

Joan M. Klaus
BankOne

Cheryl Lamm Gunn
Quaker Oats

Carolyn Nordstrom
Chicago United

Karyn Harris
Chicago United

Isabel Carter Stewart
Exec. Director, Chicago Foundation for Women

Kaye Felkins
Professor, Loyola University Chicago

Richard Bynum
Dir. of Disaster Svcs, American Red Cross

Kevin Bell
President, Lincoln Park Zoo

Steve Ross
Research Associate for Primates, Lincoln Park Zoo

Mark Germano
Vice President, United Way

Dr. Sylvia Manning
Chancellor, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

Norma Moruzzi
Professor, UIC

Deb deHaas
Andersen

Bill Haljun
President, Big Ideas

Dr. Cynthia Barron
Principle, Jones Magnet High School

Dr. Lainie Friedman Ross
University of Chicago

Katherine Gehl
Office of the Mayor

Hedy Ratner
Co-President, Women’s Business Development Center

Mike Nash
Suite Life

John McCarter
President, Field Museum

Andy Shaw
Channel 7 (ABC)

Elynor Williams
Sara Lee

MarySue Barrett
Executive Director, Metropolitan Planning Council

Pastora SanJuan Cafferty Ph.D.
Professor, School of Social Service Administration

Burton Bledstein
Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago

Elaine Schuster Ph.D.
Superintendent of Schools, Archdiocese of Chicago Office of Catholic Education

Shaye Mandle
President, llinois Coalition

Phillip Jackson
CEO, Chicago Housing Authority

Tom Kirkpatrick
Executive Director, Chicago Crime Commission

Tom Grey
Executive Director, National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling

Cordell Reed
Retired Sr. Vice President, UNICOM

Dr. Phillip Nyden
Director, Center for Urban Research & Learning, Loyola University Chicago

Julia Stasch
Commissioner Of Housing,

Rev. Monsignor Kenneth Velo
President, The Catholic Church Ext. Society

John McCarter
President, Field Museum

Paul Vallas
CEO, Chicago Public Schools

Eric McKissack
Ariel Capital Management

Valerie Lies
President, Donors Forum

Laurene von Klan
Executive Director, Friends of the River

Dr. Richard Braddock

Jerry Donovan
Executive Director, CR Group

Joseph Sullivan
Chairman, Exec. Committee IMC Global, Inc. and Bd. of Dirs., American Refugee Committee

Terrence Brunner
Executive Director, Better Government Association

Robert Stuart
Chairman Emeritus, National Can

Dr. Joan Fitzgerald
Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago

Loleta Didrickson
Comptroller, State of Illinois

Father John Piderit, S.J.
President, Loyola University Chicago

Charlie Ruder
CEO, The United Way

Jean Allard
President, Metropolitan Planning Commission

Vince Lane
Executive Director, Chicago Housing Authority

Jobie Peterson
City of Chicago

James O’Connor
Chairman, UNICOM

Inge Frylund
Adjunct Professor, Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management

Eileen Kelliher
Sr. Health Planner, Metropolitan Planning Council

Elliot Lehman
Chairman, Fel-Pro

ReDonna Rodgers
Executive Director, Center for Teaching Entrepreneurship

Dennis Chase
Executive Editor, Advertising Age

Kenneth West
Chairman, Harris Bank

Alex Kotlowitz
Wall Street Journal

Alan Carlson
President, The Rockford Institute

Richard Morrow
Chairman, Amoco

Stephen Laue
Information Services Specialist, U.S. Bureau of Census

John J. Schornack
Vice Chairman, Ernst & Young

Richard J. Daley
Mayor, City of Chicago

Michael Darcy
Executive Director, Gateway Foundation

George D. Kennedy
Chairman & CEO, International Minerals & Chemical Corporation

Frank W. Considine
Chairman, American National Can Company

B. Kenneth West
Chairman & CEO, Harris Bankcorp, Inc.

Manfred Byrd
Superintendent, Chicago Schools

Gerald Erickson
President, United Charities of Chicago

Dick Longworth
Co-Author, Tribune Millstone Series

Hanna Gray
President, University of Chicago