Staff and Board of Directors

Staff

Alexander Bonk Job Coach
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Dana Fenceroy Intake / Outreach Director
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Megan Fleischel Communications Manager
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Aida Fuentes Job Coach, Life SCILS Program
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Amy Fuentes Job Coach
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Andrea Franckowiak Program Director
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Bobbi Frazes Goldman Director of Development
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Christopher Jones Job Coach / Program Supervisor
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Christine McQuinn Project SEARCH, Lead Teacher
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Kristina Johnsen Executive Director / Founder
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Deirdre King Coordinator / Program Leader
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Megan Meredith Employment Program Leader
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David Murray Team Have Dreams - Chicago Marathon
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Kelly Passaneau Community Engagement-Special Events Coordinator
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Lora Slutsky Vocational Coordinator
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Paulette Wilkins Founding Member Grants Manager
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Anne Westerman Assistant Executive Director Have Dreams
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Lydia Wissing Training Coordinator
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Board of Directors

President Steven C. Gustafson Partner
Gould & Ratner LLP
Vice President Robert X. Creevy Corporate Attorney
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
treasurer Milton Pinsky Chief Executive Officer
Banner Apartments, LLC
Secretary Karen K. Riley Director
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Katie Bata Vice President, Human Resources, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Peggy Gilger, R.N. Nurse
East Maine School District 63
Alison Kassel Chief Information Officer – Outsourcing Solutions TrueBlue Inc.
Randy Wait
Kris Johnsen Executive Director
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Life Trustees

Gil Fergus Special Consumer counsel
Illinois Attorney General’s Office
Peggy Gilger, R.N. Nurse
East Maine School District 63
Richard Malone President and Chief Executive Officer
YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago

Medical Advisors

  • Bennett L. Leventhal, M.D.

    Professor, Department of Psychiatry • Deputy Director, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry • Director of Training, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry • ​University of California, San Francisco • STAR Center for ASD & NDDs

  • Catherine Lord, Ph.D.

    Catherine Lord, Ph.D. • Distinguished Professor-in-Residence • School of Medicine at UCLA  Senior Research Scientist • Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior

  • Lauren Wakschlag, Ph.D.

    Professor of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University • Department of Medical Social Science • Feinberg School of Medicine