2025 Leadership
Yusef Garcia*, Monarq Advisors
Board Chair
Cecil Dearborne*
Vice Chair, Fund Development Committee Co-Chair
Patrick D. Strieck*, BMO
Treasurer & Finance Committee Chair
Terri Wilkerson*, Chicago House & Social Services Agency
Secretary
Geoffrey Brown*, Illinois CPA Society
Past Chair
Nnenna Okeke*. BlueCross BlueShield
Governance Committee Chair
Julie Scott*
Fund Development Committee Co-Chair
Mary Pounder*, Comer Family Foundation
Policy & Advocacy Chair
Kara Eastman*
Racial Equity Plan Implementation
Tom Sondergeld*, Merative
Strategy Planning Committee Chair
Adwoa Antwi-Barfi
Taylor Atkins, ITW
Caprice Carthans
Equity Health Alliance
Charles Peterson
Neelyx Labs
Greg Fosheim
Janet Lin, MD, MPH, MBA
University of Illinois at Chicago
Jason Rubin
ARC Strategies
Jeramy Kaiman
Grant Thornton
JP Valadez
Valadez Public Affairs
Nana Ama Aya Erzuah-Amenuvor
University of Illinois School of Public Health
Philip Quick
University of Chicago Medicine
Roy A. Ferguson
Sean Radford
Revantage
Sherrine Peyton
Peyton Consulting
Stephanie Townsell
Taylor Atkins
ITW
Terrence Weeden
* Executive Committee member
Russ Bauer
Martin Cournane
Dirk S. Denison
Fred Eychaner
Karen Fishman
Robert L Fogel
Larry Giddings
Mark Ishaug
Tom G. Kehoe
Casey Marsh
Condon McGlothlen
Gary F. Metzner
David E. Munar
Robert Neubert
Gerard Notario
Curtis Reed, Jr.
Dr. Renslow D. Sherer, Jr.
Thomas G. Sinkovic
Ruth Sklar
Rev. Charles Straight
Richard B. Turner
Cleo F. Wilson
Paula Friedman
Craig Johnson
J. Ben Stringfellow
Anthony Bruck
Dr. Terri Friel
Joseph Stokes
Chad Thompson
Tom Feie
Tanya Lopez
Lori Kaufman
Nan Silva
Executive Committee
Luke Aylward, Chair
Tony Castagnoli, Secretary
Neal Netzel, Fund Development Chair
Jessica Dangles, Membership Co-Chair
David Neef, Membership Co-Chair
Brandy Nogueira, Policy, Advocacy, and Outreach Chair
Ali Ishkuntana, Social Media Co-Chair
Charlie Jungwirth, Social Media Co-Chair
General Body Members
Sarah Assian
Brendan Dillion
Eric Dresner
Nick Faust
Armin Gabela
Chris Hamilton
Le’Mikas Lavender
Marcus Lawrence
Luke Miltz
Ogo Okonkwor
Vince Pagán-Hill
Sergio E Rodriguez
Ben Sehi
David McDaniel-Wilson
Mason Zurovchak
President/CEO
John Peller
VP of Housing Strategy
Brandi Calvert
VP of Human Resources & Talent Management
Andrew Anderson Devine
Senior VP of Policy & Advocacy
Nadeen Israel
VP of Policy & Advocacy Operations and Innovation/Executive Director of Pride Action Tank
Kim L. Hunt
Chief Program Officer
Simone Koehlinger
Senior VP of Operations
Tom Menard
VP of Care
Freddie Shufford
Senior VP of Housing/ Executive Director of CHH
Peter Toepfer
Senior VP of Community Partnerships & Special Projects
Cynthia Tucker, Dr. P.H.
Chief Officer of External Relations
Edward Wagner
Chief Financial Officer
Laurie Wettstead