The Associate Board 2026-27 Leadership Committee

Associate Board Members

• Alexis Aria Nyhan
  GoHealth
• Elizabeth Astrup
  Kirkland & Ellis
• Taiylar Ball
  American Medical Association
• Shai Basys
  Cisco
• Eric Benjamin
  Lincoln International
• Hannah Boardman
  TvS Media Group
• Cassie Burns
  McGuire Woods LLP
• Nick Casto
  Ice Miller LLP
• Mac Coddington
  Google
• Kelly Connolly Kern
  Alliance for Water Effiency
• Claire DeLay
  Illinois EDC
• Ashley Falcon
  Meta
• Rachael Farber
  Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
• Madeleine Fawcett
  Nuveen
  
• Megan Fett
  Postscript
• Jacob Ford
  McDonald’s Corporation
• Veronica Gasparro
  BMO
• Christina Gilligan
  LiveRamp
• Mary Grady
  BMO
• Jenny Goyer
  Simplex Trading
• Kennedy Green
  Chicago Public Schools
• Melyssa Guzman
  U Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
• Alex Harris
  Meta
• Andy Hur
  Chicago Architecture Center
• Mariya Ilieva
  Erie Street Growth Partners
• Helena James
  84.51
• Jasmin Juarez
  Chicago Police Department
• Toni T. Johnson
  Jenner & Block LLP
• Juliette Kelly
  Bain & Company
• Patrick Dunlop-Karagianis
  AbbVie
• Madison Knobloch
  EDF Renewables
• Rosalyn Kutsch
  Impact Genome
• Alice Lawson
  Salesforce
• Marisa Lucht
  Google
• Steven Mahr
  City of Chicago
• Tori McMenamin
  Deloitte
• Eugene Minon
  Clarity Partners
• Taylor Faye Nazon
  Block Club Chicago
• Kaity O’Reilly
  Chicago Humanities
• Samantha Paradiso
  Res Publica Group
• Daynah Parker
  Chicago Park District
• Shannon Pesek
  APCO Worldwide
• Elizabeth Pruett
  Sol de Janiero
• Rachel Pustejovsky
  Lettuce Entertain You
• Nia Robinson
  Chicago Sky
• Sarah Rolek
  Spark Foundry
• Kayley Shomers
  Inspire11
• Rebecca Silverman
  Obama Foundation
• Joan Smedinghoff
  Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
• Emily Thies
  AbbVie
• Daily Twine
  HACO Group
• Maggie E. West
  City Colleges of Chicago
• Lucia Whalen
  The Eleven Eleven Foundation
• Josephine Wood
  Accenture