Board of Directors

Executive Board
President
Kerstin Lane
Swedish American Museum Center
Vice President
Carol Swinney
Office of Community Relations - University of Illinois at Chicago
Treasurer
Tamara Biggs
Chicago History Museum
Secretary
Jennifer Norman
Walker Wilcox Matousek LLP
Directors
Widad Albassam
Arab American Action Network (Arts Council)
Jennifer Amdur Spitz
Amdur Spitz & Associates, Inc.
Ritwik Banerji
Indo-American Center
Rosa Cabrera
Center for Cultural Understanding and Change - The Field Museum
Charles Daas
Cambodian American Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial
Jorge Felix
Institute of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture
Manuel Medina
Former Chief Officer, Office of Language & Cultural Education for CPS
Wendy Siegel
Millennia Consulting, LLC
Peg Strobel
Gender and Women's Studies - University of Illinois at Chicago
Dimitra Tasiouras
Illinois Humanities Council
Sherry Williams
Bronzeville/Black Chicagoan Historical Society
Advisory Board
Karin Abercrombie
Swedish American Museum Center
Cathy Domanico
Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau
Rich Kujawa
Polish Museum of America
Lisa Lee
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Jan Lorys
Polish Museum of America
Joseph Podlasek
American Indian Center
Costas Spirou
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, National-Louis University
Honorary Board
Rahm Emanuel
Member of Congress, 5th District Illinois
Karolina Zaczek
Congressional Aide to Rahm Emanuel
Chicago Cultural Alliance
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