Advisory Board

Chair

• Rachel A. Gordon
  Associate Professor, Institute of Government and Public Affairs

Legislators

Illinois State Representatives

• Patricia Bellock (R)
• Barbara Flynn Currie (D, Majority Leader)
• Roger Eddy (R)
• Julie Hamos (D)
• Constance Howard (D)

Illinois State Senators

• Kimberly Lightford (D)
• David Luechtefeld (R, Assistant Minority Leader)
• Kwame Raoul (D)

University of Illinois

• Robert F. Rich
  Director, Institute of Government and Public Affairs
• Gov. Jim Edgar
  Distinguished Fellow, IGPA
• David Turner
  Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Springfield
• Wynne Korr
  Dean, School of Social Work, Urbana-Champaign
• Creasie Finney Hairston
  Dean, Jane Addams College of Social Work, Chicago
• Mary Kalantzis
  Dean, College of Education, Urbana-Champaign
• Victoria Chou
  Dean, College of Education, Chicago
• David Gruenenfelder
  Assistant Director, Institute for Legal and Policy Studies, Springfield
• Patrick Tolan
  Director, Institute for Juvenile Research, Chicago
• Robert Hughes Jr.
  Head, Department of Human and Community Development, Urbana-Champaign

Civic and Community and Scholarly Leaders

• Colonel Charles Brueggemann
  Deputy Director, Division of Operations, Illinois State Police
• Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
  Professor, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
• Laurie Garduque
  Program Director, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• Robert Goerge
  Research Fellow, Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago
• Donald Green
  Mayor, Kankakee, Illinois
• Debroah Harrington
  President, Woods Fund of Chicago
• Ariel Kalil
  Director, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, University of Chicago
• Barbara Shaw
  Director, Illinois Violence Prevention Authority
• Clarence N. Wood
  President and CEO, Jane Addams Hull House Association