Board of Directors
The YWLCS Board of Directors is an active governing board. A maximum of 50 civic, business and not-for-profit leaders are elected to serve three-year terms on the YWLCS board. In addition, students, parents, and faculty/staff participate from within the YWLCS community. For a listing of our current board officers and members, please click here. For the 2011-12 Board of Director meeting schedule, please click here.
The Board collectively has the following three core fiduciary responsibilities:
- To establish long-term strategic direction for the school through a regularly updated strategic plan.
- To provide oversight of the implementation of the strategic plan, the school’s programs, and the school’s leadership.
- To ensure adequate financial resources to realize the mission of YWLCS.
Current YWLCS Board Officers
Deborah M. Sawyer, PRESIDENT
Founder, President & CEO, Environmental Design International
Joan M. Hall, IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Retired Partner, Jenner & Block LLP
Ruanda Garth McCullough, PhD, VICE PRESIDENT
Assistant Professor, School of Education, Loyola University
Lisa Scruggs, VICE PRESIDENT
Partner, Jenner & Block, LLP
Tina Stretch, VICE PRESIDENT
Community Activist
Arlene Sheskin, PhD, SECRETARY
Sheskin Research Inc.
Marilee Hopkins, TREASURER
Partner, Crowe Horwath LLP
Current YWLCS Board Members
Sonya Andreassen-Henderson
Vice President, Mortgage Fraud Risk Management, PNC
Kimbra A. Bell, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern Memorial Physicians
Group
Greg Cameron
Chief Operating Officer, WTTW11 / 98.7WFMT
Cordia Clark-White, M.D.
OB-GYN Physician, Mercy Hospital
Adrianne Dade, M.D.
OB-GYN Physician, Mercy Hospital
Patricia De Biasi
Senior Research Associate, Leo J. Shapiro & Associates, LLC
Helen Doria
Helen Doria Consulting, Arts, Culture & Public Spaces
Georgia Fogelson
Community Activist
Shenita Johnson Garrard
Attorney & Education Policy Expert
Bette Cerf Hill
Artist & Community Activist
Fran Johns
Brand & Consumer Insight Consultant
Liz Kramer Lefkofsky
Community Activist
Rachael Halstuk Mangoubi
Investment Manager, Investment Advisory Group, Mesirow Financial
Kimberly E. McCullough
Director of External Affairs, AT&T, Illinois
Breian Meakens
Vice President of Finance, HRET, American Hospital Association
Dana M. Mikstay, CLU
Sr. Managing Director, Insurance Services, Mesirow Financial
Portia Owen Morrison
Senior Counsel, DLA Piper
Tamar Newberger
Vice-President of Marketing, Catbird Networks
Christina N. Outlay, Ph.D., PMP
Assistant Professor, College of Business and Economics, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
Jane DiRenzo Pigott
Founder and Managing Director, R3 Group LLC
Tanesha D. H. Pittman, Ed.Dc, M.B.A.
Executive Director, Benedictine University Moser College of Adult and Professional Studies
Kelly Richmond Pope, Ph.D., CPA
Assistant Professor, School of Accountancy & MIS, DePaul University
Esther S. Saks
Community Activist
Kate E. Sanderson
Vice President of Human Resources, Aon Corporation
Karen A. Scott, M.D.
OB-GYN Physician, Mercy Hospital
Melody Spann-Cooper
President & General Manager, WVON
Glen Spear
Sr. Vice President & Counsel, Pritzker Realty Group, L.P.
Karen C. Teitelbaum
Executive Vice President / Chief Operating Officer, Sinai Health System
Teresa K. Woodruff, Ph.D.
The Thomas J. Watkins Professor of OB/GYN and Founder and Director, Institute of Women's Health Research
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Advisory Board
Mia Barricini
Leslie Blair
Natalia Delgado
Joan W. Harris
Julie Conboy Hesse
Jeanine M. Jiganti
Sokoni Karanja
John McCartney
Patricia Mendoza
Molly J. Moran
Jeanne L. Nowaczewski
Penny Pritzker
Bettylu Saltzman
Ann Rubenstein Tisch