Diversity Advisory Board


Chair - Emmett Vaughn
Director - Diversity & Inclusion Strategy, Exelon

Kathy April-Barr
Manager, Supplier Diversity, Abbott Laboratories 

Dr. Jerome Austriaco
Financial Advisor, Principal Financial Growth

Colleen Bradley
The PrivateBank 

Gina Camiola
Manager, Diversity Strategies, U.S. Cellular

Luz Canino-Baker
Owner, LNC Coaching

Michael DeSantiago
Executive Director, Primera

Dr. Kimberly Edwards
Director of Education, Chicago Commission on Human Relations

LaShana Jackson
Director of Diversity & Inclusion, AON Corporation

Marquis Miller
VP Field Operations, National Minority Supplier Development Council

Jim Norman
VP Talent Acquisition, Diversity & Inclusion, Kraft Foods Inc. 

Marjorie Paddock
Director of Diversity & Inclusion, Harris Bank

Dr. Pier Rogers
Director of Axelson Center for Nonprofit Management, North Park University

Jane Saks
Executive Director, Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender in the Arts & Media 

Cedric Thurman
SVP, Chief Diversity Officer, Jones, Lang & LaSalle

Dr. Lynn Todman
Director, Social Institute of Social Exclusion, Adler School of Professional Psychology

Mark Welch

James Williams

Manager of Business Diversity, University of Chicago Hospitals

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