Category: past speakers

Principal, Economic & Valuation Services, KPMG LLP

 

James H. Moore, Jr., Ph.D. joined KPMG, in April 2018 as a Managing Director. James brings 25 years of public-sector experience in labor economics, having held roles at the federal, state, and local levels. He joins KPMG from IMPAQ International, where, as a Senior Vice President, he managed a multi-million dollar portfolio including projects with federal, state, and local agencies. He directed an interdisciplinary team of highly-experienced researchers, economist, data scientists, and technologists who apply innovative methods to help agencies improve program performance and enforcement activities. Experts under his purview also specialize in an array of education topic areas and methodologies, applying their deep experience to inform policy decisions and program implementations.

Prior to joining IMPAQ, Dr. Moore served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for US Department of Labor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy. Dr. Moore provided advice to Secretary of Labor, Deputy Secretary, and Departmental agencies on matters of policy development and supports the economic policy, research, and analysis agenda of the Department.

Dr. Moore previously served as the Deputy Director and Chief Economist for the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services (DOES).

Dr. Moore has served as a Senior Policy Advisor with OASP. During his tenure with OASP, Dr. Moore advised the Secretary of Labor, Deputy Secretary, and the Assistant Secretary for Policy on a wide range of labor policies.

Dr. Moore also served as Deputy Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (LWD). As Deputy Commissioner, .

Dr. Moore has held numerous federal government positions including Senior Economist for the Employee Benefits Security Administration, Office of Policy and Research, U.S. Department of Labor and as a Labor Economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics and with the Social Security Administration.

The William C. Norby Professor in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and the Committee on Education at the University of Chicago

 

Professor Nealʼs recent research focuses on the design of incentive and accountability systems for educators. In 2018, he published Information, Incentives, and Education Policy (Harvard University Press). This book employs standard tools from information economics to examine a range of education reform agendas, from assessment-based accountability and centralized school assignments to charter schools and voucher systems. Professor Neal demonstrates where these programs have been successful, where they have failed, and why.

Earlier in his career, his research focused on the causes and consequences of measured skill gaps between blacks and whites in the United States. His current work explores how different aspects of criminal justice policy impact black-white inequality in the US.

He is a past President of the Midwest Economics Association, a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, and a former Editor of the Journal of Human Resources, the Journal of Labor Economics and the Journal of Political Economy.

President and CEO, The Education Trust

 

John B. King Jr. is the president and CEO of The Education Trust, a national nonprofit organization that seeks to identify and close educational opportunity and achievement gaps. King served as U.S. Secretary of Education in the Obama administration. Prior to that role, King carried out the duties of Deputy Secretary, overseeing policies and programs related to P-12 education, English learners, special education, innovation, and agency operations. King joined the department following his post as New York State Education Commissioner. King began his career as a high school social studies teacher and middle school principal.

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CEO, NAF

 

JD Hoye is the Chief Executive Officer of NAF. With a deep commitment to preparing students for college and meaningful careers, Ms. Hoye has worked at both the grassroots and the highest levels of government for decades, to reform how young people are engaged in learning and how they are positioned to pursue their academic interests and career goals.

In this leadership role, Ms. Hoye provides strategic direction and leads NAF’s national profile work. During the 2019-2020 school year, over 110,000 students attended 620 NAF academies across 34 states, plus DC, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.

NAF academies focus on one of five career themes — finance, hospitality & tourism, information technology, engineering, and health sciences — with an educational design that includes industry-specific curricula, work-based learning experiences, and relationships with business professionals, that culminate in a paid internship, to transform the high school experience and engage businesses in playing an active role in developing the talent pipeline.

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Co-Creator, March to the Polls

 

A recent graduate of Harvard Business School, Chelsea Celistan was inspired to create March to the Polls as a result of seeing the need for non-partisan education to help young professionals become civically engaged. She works with a team of talented volunteers to produce weekly calls to action around participation in the political process, recruiting poll workers and executing a voting plan. Chelsea is also passionate about promoting diversity in business, serving in leadership roles in several organizations and co-founding Black Women in Investing. Chelsea’s day job is as a private equity investor and her time away from work is spent as a certified fitness instructor, avid traveler, and NFL enthusiast.

 

Director, Goodness Solutions, Benevity

 

As Director of Goodness solutions at Benevity, Kathryn Pisco helps brands bring their social mission to life with technology to build a positive workplace culture, amplify the impact of corporate giving, and power pro-social brand engagement. For almost a decade, Kathryn has worked at the intersection of purpose and profit. Before her time at Benevity, Kathryn served as Founder and CEO of Unearth the World, a social enterprise that plans transformative international exchange and skills-based volunteer opportunities for professionals and students. In her time away from work, Kathryn is a world traveler, budding foodie, wannabe yogi and mother to three beautiful kiddos: Lucia (4), Olivia (4) and George (1).

CEO and Co-Founder, BallotReady

 

Alex Niemczewski is CEO and co-founder of BallotReady, an award-winning voter guide to every race and referendum on the ballot. Previously she founded a human-centered design consulting firm and taught coding at the Booth School of Business and The Starter League. She has a background in workforce development and is an alum of the University of Chicago. She was recognized in Crain’s Chicago Business “20 in their 20’s” list, Techweek100, and as a Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation Fellow.

Founder & Principal, SJConnects Communications

 

Steve is a seasoned professional with more than 25 years’ experience as senior agency leader, corporate communications executive and reporter. He has worked across consumer, corporate, B2B and sports & entertainment marketing verticals running traditional media outreach, social media executions, issues and crisis response, executive communications coaching, as well as diversity & inclusion/internal communications efforts

After starting his career on Chicago’s airwaves at WSCR-AM, Steve worked for Amoco Corp. (now BP) in a variety of roles before moving to McDonald’s Corp. for an internal communications role. Later, he moved to the agency-side with MSLGROUP leading programs for General Motors, Nike and the U.S. Army’s sports marketing efforts. With a move to Weber Shandwick, he continued to focus on consumer and sports marketing accounts for Army, State Farm and Polaris, while broadening his role to leading diversity & inclusion.

Steve brought all of his expertise to bear as vice president of public relations for sports marketing and media firm, Intersport. There he helped create the firm’s communication architecture and drive visibility in key traditional outlets and social media channels. He started SJConnects just before taking the Intersport role.

Steve has been on award-winning teams as a reporter/documentarian (regional Emmy), on the client-side (NAIC investor relations award), and the agency side (PRSA Silver Anvils, Event Marketer Ex Awards and IT List, Tellys, Cynopsis Media, Sports Business Journal, PR Week, PCC Silver Trumpet). He also is a speaker and mentor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, as well as Chicago incubators 1871 and the Polsky Exchange.

Steve earned his bachelor’s degree in print journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign while achieving a minor in history. He lives in Evanston, Ill., with his wife, three boys and a dog named Pablo Picasso. There he serves as a mentor with Evanston Scholars and volunteers at the Soup at Six soup kitchen while trying to revive his side-hustle dream of being a lead singer.

WBEZ Race, Class and Communities reporter and author

 

Natalie covers segregation and inequality.

Her enterprise reporting has tackled race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. Natalie’s work has been broadcast on the BBC, Marketplace and NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. Natalie is the author of The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, winner of the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction and a Buzzfeed best nonfiction book of 2016. She is also co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang and Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation.

Natalie writes a monthly column for the Chicago Sun-Times. Her work has been published in Essence, Ebony, the Chicago Reporter, Bitch, In These Times, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Guardian. She is the 2017 recipient of Chicago Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award. In 2010, she received the Studs Terkel Community Media Award for reporting on Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods. In 2009, she was a fellow at Columbia College’s Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, which allowed her to take a reporting trip to Libya. Natalie has won several journalism awards, including a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. Other honors are from the Radio Television Digital News Association (Edward R. Murrow), Public Radio News Directors Incorporated, National Association of Black Journalists, Illinois Associated Press and Chicago Headline Club. The Chicago Reader named her best journalist in 2017. In 2018, she received an honorary doctorate from Adler University. In These Times gave her the 2017 Voice of Progressive Journalism Award. Natalie frequently collaborates with Chicago artist Amanda Williams.

Prior to joining WBEZ staff in 2007, Natalie was a city hall reporter for the Detroit News. She has also been an education reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and a reporter for the Associated Press in Jerusalem.

Natalie has an M.S.J. in Newspaper Management from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a B.A. in Journalism from Howard University. She has taught at Columbia College and Medill. Natalie and her husband Rodney live in Hyde Park with their four daughters.

Chicago Artist and Architect

 

Amanda is a visual artist who trained as an architect. Her creative practice employs color as a way to draw attention to the complexities of how race shapes how we assign value to space in cities. The landscapes in which she operates are the visual residue of the invisible policies and forces that have misshapen most major US cities. Williams’ installations, paintings and works on paper seek to inspire new ways of looking at the familiar and in the process, raise questions about the state of urban space and ownership in America. Amanda has exhibited widely, including the MoMA (NY), the Venice Architecture Biennale, the MCA Chicago, and a public commission at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis. She recently won the commission to design a permanent monument to Shirley Chisholm in Brooklyn NY. Amanda has been recognized as a Joan Mitchell Foundation grantee, a USA Ford Fellow, an Efroymson Arts Fellow and a Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow. Amanda is also a member of the Obama Presidential Center’s Museum Design Team and sits on the boards of the Graham Foundation, Garfield Park Conservatory and Hyde Park Art Center. Her work is in several permanent collections including the Art Institute of Chicago and the MoMA (NY). Williams lives and works on the south side of Chicago.

President, The Field Foundation

 

As President of the Field Foundation, Angelique designed a journey with staff, board and nonprofit partners to center racial justice in the Foundation’s work. Over the past four years, Field Foundation has changed how it funds, who it funds, has created accountability structures for community to review its work, rethought metrics, created heatmaps that illustrate the design of inequity within Chicago and has updated its investment policy.

Through strategic partnerships with other foundations, under Angelique’s tenure the Field Foundation has doubled the size of its giving and its programming – allowing it to fund in the areas of Justice, Art, Leadership Investment and Media & Storytelling. These partnerships allow Field Foundation to fund individuals, for profit organizations along with nonprofits. Additionally, in 2020 the Field Foundation relocated to the nation’s first collaborative community workspace dedicated to social impact entitled FBRK Impact House, an entity she co-conceptualized with former Chicago Bear, Israel Idonije.

Power chairs the boards of 6018North and Enrich Chicago, an organization she co-founded, dedicated to racial equity in the arts and serves on the board of Forefront Illinois and the Advisory Committee of the Illinois Justice Project. Angelique co-chaired Mayor Lightfoot’s Transition Team, serves on the Mayor’s Taskforce for COVID Recovery and is a 2015 Fellow of Leadership Greater Chicago.

Founder and CEO, My Block My Hood My City

 

A champion of social justice, Jahmal Cole’s mission is to build a more interconnected Chicago on the pillars of service and education.

As the founder and CEO of the city’s fastest growing social impact organization, My Block My Hood My City, Jahmal is the creator of an exposure-based education program for teens and a network of volunteer initiatives that serve Chicago communities year-round.

Traveling, youth mentorship and community organizing are the subjects of Jahmal’s highly acclaimed books and speeches. He has spoken to audiences ranging from high school students to the Mayor of Chicago.

In 2019, Jahmal Cole was named to Crain’s 40 under 40, he’s also the recipient of the 2019 Champion of Freedom Award, the 2018 Chicago Defender Men of Excellence Honoree, and the 2018 Chicago City Council Resolution Award. In 2018, he was also named one of the “20 Most Inspiring Chicagoans” by Streetwise Magazine and a Chicagoan of the Year by Chicago Magazine. Most recently he was awarded the 2020 American Red Cross Community Impact Hero Award.

 

Managing Family Director, Julian Grace Foundation

 

Jessica Sarowitz is the Managing Partner of 4S Bay Partners LLC, a family office management company that oversees several private businesses, real estate, and investments in diverse industries such as domestic and international payroll, UK payroll, film-making and commercial & residential real estate holdings.  Mrs. Sarowitz is also the Managing Family Director of the Julian Grace Foundation, her family’s charitable foundation, which funds various philanthropic ventures through an entrepreneurial and social impact lens in communities of color.  These ventures have included orphanages and clinics in Central America, innovative educational programs for foster kids, state-of-the art urban centers for arts and technology education, vocational training, environmental causes, the preservation of indigenous cultures and various other educational and social justice programs. Mrs. Sarowitz is passionate about correcting the source of a problem in authentic partnership with communities in need; as well as providing people with respectful transformative opportunities and experiences. Mrs. Sarowitz is also an avid tennis player and believes that a healthy lifestyle can fuel the mind and body to positive outcomes. Mrs. Sarowitz graduated in 1991 from DePaul University with a degree in Economics. She sits on several boards including DePaul University, The Field Museum, Sierra Club Foundation and Heart of the City.

Chief Inclusion Officer, Publicis Groupe

 

Renetta McCann has been recognized as one of the leading innovators and most influential executives in the advertising, marketing and media industries, with a global reputation for not only building brands, but also the organizations and leadership to sustain them.

As Chief Inclusion Experience Officer for Publicis Groupe, she works to drive inclusion at all levels of the organization, with an emphasis on ensuring that the company’s clients are benefiting from the many strategic advantages that diverse teams deliver.

Renetta is no stranger to the Publicis family. She began her career at Leo Burnett, and, after a long tenure, she became the CEO of Starcom MediaVest Group Worldwide. Under her leadership, client billings exceeded $26 billion and the global workforce rose to over 6,000 people. Most recently, she served as the Chief Talent Officer for Leo Burnett USA as well as Publicis Communications North America.

Along the way, Renetta has been an active volunteer and contributor to various industry and civic organizations. Currently she serves on the Executive Committee of the Chicago Community Trust, the Marketing Committee of the Robert and Ann Lurie Children’s Hospital and the Legacy Giving Committee of the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago.

She is a frequent name in the press. In 2002, she was named “Corporate Executive of the Year” by Black Enterprise magazine and was selected Ad Woman of the Year by the Chicago Advertising Federation. Essence named her one of “50 Women Who are Changing the World” and she received a Matrix Award in 2006 from New York Women in Communications. She has appeared on the pages of Advertising Age, Business Week and Chicago magazine. In 2014 the American Advertising Federation honored her with a Diversity Achievement Award for her contributions as an Industry Influential and she received The Pantheon Award from the 4A’s MAIP program. Recently, she was featured on Adweek’s list of “11 Inspiring Women Who Have Broken Down Advertising’s Most Persistent Barriers.”

After nearly 30 years of communications management and leadership, she went back to the books, earning an M.S. in Learning and Organizational Change from Northwestern University. She worked as an executive coach and organizational change consultant before rejoining Burnett in the fall of 2012. Currently, she is an adjunct lecturer in the MSLOC program, teaching a course on organizational design. Renetta has also served as a Corporate Director of Tribune Publishing (now named Tronc).

She lives in Chicago with her husband Kevin and children, Ella and Alexander.

Executive Director, Arts Alliance Illinois

 

Claire Rice (she/her/hers) leads the visioning, development and implementation of all programs and initiatives of Arts Alliance Illinois. Rice previously served as the national director of Sustain Arts at Harvard University, a project providing free access to meaningful data on arts and cultural activity, successfully launched in three US regions to date. She began her arts career at the internationally renowned performing arts presenter UMS in Ann Arbor, where she served as director of education. While there, she produced a monthlong residency with the Royal Shakespeare Company, among the largest projects in the 131-year history of UMS, and was associate producer for the Naxos recording of William Bolcom’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, recognized in 2006 with four Grammy Awards. In 2010, Rice was published as a contributing author of 20UNDER40, a collection of innovative ideas addressing challenges faced by the arts sector. Rice came to the arts after six years working with federal and state-level clients in Washington, DC as a management consultant for Accenture. She holds a BA from the College and William and Mary and an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Vice President of Community Affairs, ITW

 

Rosemary has been employed with ITW since 2008, and her responsibilities include acting as Secretary to the ITW Foundation Board of Directors.  Through the Foundation she manages all grant and pledge requests for funding, as well as, over sees the Matching Gift Program, Volunteer Program, United Way and Scholarship Programs. is inclusive of additional matching from the Foundation.  In addition, Rosemary manages corporate contributions to include funding/sponsorships, in-kind giving, and pro-bono.  One key accomplishment for Rosemary in 2014 was the opening and design of a STEM high-school in Chicago called the ITW David Speer Academy.

Prior to ITW Rosemary was with Hewitt for 15 years where she initially served as a global leader responsible for talent.  Upon Hewitt going public, she was asked to develop and lead global corporate social responsibility.  She was responsible for all corporate giving to include funding, sponsorships, volunteer management, in-kind, pro-bono and all board placements.  Rosemary also created Hewitt’s signature program, The Hewitt Career Center, and built centers across North America in at-risk/disadvantaged high-schools.  She was also the Vice-President of the Hewitt Foundation and responsible for all granting and events tied to the Foundation.

Prior to Hewitt, Rosemary was with Balcor/American Express for 8 years where she served as Vice President of Human Resources.  She was responsible for recruitment and staffing, succession planning, reduction in force/outplacement, internal communications and learning and development.

Rosemary also owned and operated a 300 guest lake front restaurant, Fairmont Shores, on Fox Lake in Lake Villa, Illinois for 15 years.  She is a professionally trained chef with her specialty being creating cultural culinary experiences to include Eastern Europe, Southern Italian, French, High-end Mexican, and Thai.  In addition to running the restaurant she donated 12 guest chefs to various charity events annually raising $1.3M for charities over the course of 15 years.  She also donated the use of her restaurant on Monday’s to various charities which include food/beverages and staff.

Rosemary currently sits on the following boards: ITW Foundation, The Ruby Bridges Foundation, and One Hope United.   Rosemary is also a national key-note speaker on the topic of child abuse and neglect.  Previously she also served on the following boards:  Better Government Association, CASA, College of Lake County, American Cancer Society, America Scores, Court Appointed Special Advocates, The Hewitt Foundation, and served as Vice Chairman for the Governor of Illinois state commission.

Rosemary is married to David Matzl and is a mom to four children, Annyetta 30, (married to Jake 30), Karoly and Krisztina, (twins) 26 and Dragos 20.  And is an Oma to Bernadette 3 and Theodore 2.  Her twins and Dragos are rescue adoptions from the Romanian Orphanages where Rosemary continues to provide support and advocacy.

Vice Chair, BMO Harris Bank

 

In the role of Vice Chair at BMO Harris, Eric is responsible for working with the U.S. Commercial Banking team and across other lines of business to develop the bank’s strategy and product capabilities as it expands nationwide by cultivating new and existing client relationships.  As an ambassador for the bank, Eric is a key leader of several firmwide initiatives including regulatory affairs, community affairs, and diversity and inclusion.

Eric joined BMO in January 2020 from Fifth Third Bank, where he served as the Regional President responsible for the growth and strategic alignment of the commercial banking, wealth & asset management and consumer businesses across the Chicagoland market.  Prior to assuming that role in 2016, Eric served as Chief Financial Officer of Middle Market Banking for JPMorgan Chase for several years following his leadership role as a Managing Director in the Investment Bank responsible for advising Fortune 500 consumer product companies on mergers and acquisitions as well as debt and equity underwritings.  Eric has more than 25 years of banking experience, and he began his career with Merrill Lynch as a Financial Analyst in Public Finance.

Eric has a long history of commitment to the non-profit and civic community as reflected through his board service and volunteerism. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board for the Chicago Urban League and the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital Foundation as well as immediate past Vice Chair of the Board for Goodman Theatre.  Likewise, Eric is an Executive Committee Board Member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and an active Board Member of the Chicago Public Education Fund, Chicago United, and St. John A.M.E. Church of Aurora.  Eric is also a member of the Commercial Club, Economic Club of Chicago, Executives Club of Chicago, Executive Leadership Council, and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.

Eric earned his Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Howard University and his MBA from Harvard Business School.  He and his wife Kimberly Taylor-Smith have two daughters and they reside in Evanston, IL.

 

Senior Vice President, Market Manager, Enterprise Business and Community Engagement, Bank of America

Julie Chavez is senior vice president and market manager for Bank of America where she is responsible for managing a variety of programs in the areas of philanthropy, community and civic engagement, volunteerism, sponsorships, communications, and business integration for the Chicago area.

Julie, a native of the Chicago and the Pilsen community, has taken her grass roots approach to corporate philanthropy.  Julie has remained active with a number of Chicago-area nonprofit and civic institutions.  More recently she served on the boards of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority and the National Museum of Mexican Arts, where she served several terms as board chair and now life trustee.

Julie currently serves on the boards of Metropolitan Family Services and the National Veterans Art Museum; the advisory board of Local Initiatives Support Corporation Chicago; and is a fellow of Leadership Greater Chicago. Julie continues to be a role model for others and encourages a commitment to community by volunteering and serving on committees and boards.

Julie has a personal responsibility to improve diversity and inclusion in corporate philanthropy and continues to advocate through Chicago Latinos in Philanthropy for more people of color to be leaders in philanthropy, whether serving as staff, as board members or active donors.

During her career at Bank of America, she has served in a variety of positions in global marketing, corporate affairs, charitable giving, and community development.  More prominently, in 1991 Julie was named as Director of the Continental Bank Foundation.    With Bank of America’s 1994 acquisition of Continental Bank, she transitioned her corporate philanthropy work to Bank of America.

For over 30 years Julie has overseen Bank of America’s giving programs, with a commitment to funding organizations and communities in need.  Under Julie’s leadership Bank of America continues to direct support to community development in areas of affordable housing, workforce development, youth, basic needs, and the arts.

Julie has her undergraduate degree and MBA from National Louis University.  Julie lives on Chicago near west side where her interests include spending time with family, gardening, reading, cooking, traveling and visiting local and national cultural institutions.

CEO, One Million Degrees

 

Paige Ponder is CEO of One Million Degrees (OMD), an organization dedicated to supporting and accelerating low-income community college students’ progress on career pathways to economic mobility. Since 2012, Paige has led the organization through a period of dramatic growth, increasing the number of scholars served each year by 10x and quadrupling the budget and staff size. She has also launched partnerships to support a growing number of apprentices – young people working and attending community college at the same time – with several major employers in Chicago.

Paige joined One Million Degrees after leading Project Exploration, a dynamic youth STEM organization. Prior to Project Exploration, Paige was Officer of Student Support and Engagement at Chicago Public Schools.

While at CPS, Paige designed and led initiatives to systematically drive up the number of freshmen on track to graduate by developing early warning indicators and disseminating promising practices for high schools to better support freshmen during this “make or break” year. Paige has experience in for-profit education having worked for The Grow Network and McGraw-Hill in product development, professional development, and client services capacities. She began her career as a Princeton Project 55 Fellow at Holy Cross School in the South Bronx, NY, where she served for four years.

Paige graduated from Princeton University in 1996 with a degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She earned an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 2002.

Paige was appointed to the Illinois Community College Board in 2018. She serves on the Steering Committee of the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago, the Advisory Council for the Urban Education Institute’s To&Through Project, the Advisory Council of National Louis University’s Harrison Professional Pathways Program, and the Advisory Committee for the Illinois Postsecondary Education Report Card. She is a 2019 Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow and a member of the Economic Club of Chicago.

Paige lives in Andersonville with her husband, their three not-so-little boys, and Wallace, the dog.