Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Chair of the Board
Jill Fraggos
Director of Government Relations
Children's Memorial Hospital

Richard Andrew
Andrew Family Foundation

Karl Androes
Executive Director
Reading In Motion

Rebecca Brubaker
Vice President/Operations
Chicago Tribune

Sana Hakim
Partner
Bell, Boyd & Lloyd

Dennis A. McMahon
VP, General Counsel & Secretary
Follett Corporation

Aaron Mikulsky
AVP Regional Operations Manager - Central Region
Arch Insurance Group

David Mitchell
Portfolio Manager
William Blair and Co.

Christopher Randall
Chief Operating Officer
MFC Capital Funding

Jane DiRenzo Pigott
Managing Director
R3 Group, LLC

Forrest Vollrath
First Vice President
LaSalle Bank

Kathryn Willett
Andrew Family Foundation

Carol Yanowitz
Consultant

Joan Zielinski
Adjunct Professor of Marketing
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University

Volunteer Members of Board Committees

Julia Brady Hoexter (Communications)
Associate Vice President
Lipman Hearne Inc.

Candice Warltier (Communications)
Principal
Communications Strategies Group

Richard P. Farrell (Earned Revenue)
President
Tangent Knowledge Systems

Mark McKeown (Earned Revenue)
Director of Business Information
Crown Imports LLC

Brian Buehling (Quality Control)
Managing Director
Dakota Systems

John Dolce (Quality Control)
Senior Solution Architect
NEC

Paul Baffico
President
Senior Consultant, CRA International

James Hulbert
Partner
Schiff & Hulbert

Linda Leadbitter
VIce President
Aon Corporation

Frank Marrese
President and CEO
Ecker Enterprises

Steve McShane
President and CEO
Midtronics, Inc.

Mary Roney Roling
Chair Emeritus

Bob Shamberg
CEO
Newspaper Services of America

Debra Snider
Author, Speaker & Strategic
Productivity Consultant

Jennifer Cartland, PhD
Director, Child Health Data Lab
Children’s Memorial Hospital

Pat Ford
Executive Director
Chicago High School Redesign Initiative

Kathleen Mayer, PhD
Principal
Rachel Carson Elementary School

Alfred McDougal
President
McDougal Family Foundation

Cindy Richards
Columnist
Chicago Sun-Times

Sara L. Spurlark
Former Director
Center for Urban School Improvement, University of Chicago

Bernice Weissbourd
Founder and Executive Director
Family Focus

Timothy Shanahan, PhD
Previous President
International Reading Association
Director
Center for Literacy/University of Illinois at Chicago

Lynn White
Kindergarten Teacher
Hubbard Woods Elementary School
Winnetka Public Schools