Kimberly Motes was appointed the Executive Director of Chicago Shakespeare Theater in July 2023 and joined the organization in October. Previously, she spent nearly eight years as the Managing Director for the Tony Award winning...

Jill Koski is the President and CEO of The Morton Arboretum located on 1,700 acres 25 miles west of Chicago. She oversees the comprehensive strategies and operations of the Arboretum, advancing the tree-focused vision, mission,...

Eleanor Esser Gorski is the CEO and President of the Chicago Architecture Center, the leading organization devoted to celebrating and promoting Chicago as a center of architectural innovation and education. Gorski brings to the role...

Erin Amico is the President & CEO of The Chicago Academy of Sciences and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (“Nature Museum”). For 166 years, the Nature Museum has been connecting Chicagoans to nature and science....

Chevy Humphrey is the first Black American to head a science center in the United States. In January 2021, Humphrey became the first woman and Black American to lead the Museum of Science and Industry,...

EDUCATION D. – Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Dissertation: The Effects of Ultraviolet Light on Bird Behavior S. – Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Thesis: Pairing Behavior of Captive Chilean Flamingos as a Function of...

Perri Irmer is President and CEO of the DuSable Museum of African American History, the iconic institution founded in 1961 by Dr. Margaret Burroughs. It is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in...

Debra H. Snider is an author and speaker. Her novel, A Merger of Equals, was published in November 2006. She has also written The Productive Culture Blueprint (American Bar Association Career Resource Center, 2003), Working...

Professional Background: Joyce Simon joined the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago in 1992 as its first Chief Financial Officer; she also serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Shedd Aquarium Society, the not-for-profit corporation that...