As Chief Executive Officer, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot oversees the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization and third largest U.S. charity according to Forbes. Feeding America is a nationwide network of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries...

Amanda Woodward is Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences and the William S. Gray Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology. She joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1993 and served as Deputy Dean...

Head of Talent and Culture Morningstar, Inc. Bevin Desmond is head of talent & culture for the Chicago investment research giant, a role she’s held since 2010. Desmond also oversees the data & development centers...

President Northern Illinois University Northern Illinois University (NIU) is an engaged public research university that serves a diverse student body. As President, Freeman works to support all aspects of the university’s mission, emphasizing NIU’s continued...

Teresa K. Woodruff Ph.D.is the Dean and Associate Provost for Graduate Education in The Graduate School at Northwestern University. She is also the Thomas J. Watkins Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the Vice Chair for...

Na’ilah Suad Nasir is the sixth President of the Spencer Foundation which invests in education research that cultivates learning and transforms lives. She held a faculty appointment at the University of California, Berkeley from 2008-2019,...

Elizabeth “Betsy” Ziegler is the first female CEO of 1871, now the Number 1 ranked university affiliated-tech incubator in the world. Previous to 1871, Betsy was the Chief Innovation Officer at the Kellogg School of...

Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton is excited to serve Illinois as the state’s 48th Lieutenant Governor. In this role, her portfolio includes leading the Justice, Equity and Opportunity Initiative, and chairing the Illinois Council on Women...

Clare Metcalf leads the Russell Reynolds’ Midwest (Chicago and Minneapolis/St. Paul) offices and the Financial Officers Practice for the Americas. She focuses on financial officer assignments across all sectors, working with both public and private...

Diane is an architect, landscape architect, planner and urban designer, Vice President of CallisonRTKL and currently based in Hong Kong and Chicago, doing projects of all types and scales in  China, Northeast and Southeast Asia,...