Past Speakers at the Breakfast Program Series

2008

Lin Kaatz Chary, PhD., MPH

Deborah DeHaas
Vice Chairman and Regional Managing Partner, Deloitte Services, LLP, Midwest Region

Diane Dillon
Associate Director of Research and Education, Newberry Library

Torey Malatia
President and General Manager, Chicago Public Radio

2007

Dr. Clement Hamilton
Vice President and Director of Research, Morton Arboretum

Rick Hirschhaut
Project and Executive Director, Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center

Richard Jones (Pictures)
University of Chicago,

Sadhu Johnston
Commissioner of the Environment, City of Chicago

Tom Bartoski
Director of International Business Development, World Business Chicago

Gary Johnson
President, Chicago History Museum

Gabrielle Lyon
Executive Director, Project Exploration

Paul Nebenzahl
Community Health Charities,

William Mason
General Director, Lyric Opera

2006

David Spadafora
President and Librarian, Newberry Library

David Anderson
Executive Director, Freedom Museum

Mary Houpt (Pictures)

Dr. Jose Oberholzer
Director of Cell and Pancreas Transplantation, University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Surgery

Dr. Michael Walsh
Chicago Climate Exchange

Margaret Stender
General Manager, Chicago Sky

2005

John Roberts
Managing Director, Chicago Mercantile Exchange

George Rainey
President and CEO, Metropolis

Arne Duncan
Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Public Schools

Geoff Emberling
Museum Director, Oriental Institute

Paul Biebel, Jr.
Presiding Judge, Criminal Division

Dr. Weine
Director, International Center on Human Responses to Social Catastrophes

Aleksander Hemon
MacArthur Genius Award Recipient

Ralph Hughes
Regional Director, Marshall Fields

Brenda Sexton
Managing Director, Illinois Film Office

John A. Kessler M.D.
Chairman, Department of Neurology, Northwestern Memorial Hospital

2004

Joanna Rudnick
Director of Development, Kartemquin Educational Films

William J. Brodsky
Chairman and CEO, Chicago Board Options Exchange

Lance Schart
Daniel Murphy Scholarship Foundation

Candace Browdy
Daniel Murphy Scholarship Foundation

Annual Meeting (Pictures)

Larry Suffredin
Commissioner (13th District), Cook County

Raymond Soucek
President/CEO, Haymarket Center

Chivy Sok
University of Iowa

Libby Chiu
Urban Gateways/Community Trust Sarh Solotaroff

Dan Schmidt
President/CEO, WTTW

Mike Peregrine
Gardner, Carton and Douglas Robert Friedman of Bear Stearns

2003

Paul Lehman
Winning Workplaces

Eddie Lawlor
Dean, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago

Sid Mohn
President, Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights

Jill Wine-Banks
Chief Officer, Education to Careers Chicago Public Schools

Maureen Blaha
Executive Director, National Runaway Switchboard

Dr. Michael Pagano
Director and Professor, Public Administration Program UIC

Dr. Rebecca Hendrick
Associate Professor, Public Administration Program UIC

Joan Gunzberg
Executive Director, Arts & Business Council, Chicago

2002

Cheryl Lamm Gunn
Quaker Oats

Carolyn Nordstrom
Chicago United

Karyn Harris
Chicago United

Isabel Carter Stewart
Exec. Director, Chicago Foundation for Women

Kaye Felkins
Professor, Loyola University Chicago

Richard Bynum
Dir. of Disaster Svcs, American Red Cross

Kevin Bell
President, Lincoln Park Zoo

Steve Ross
Research Associate for Primates, Lincoln Park Zoo

Mark Germano
Vice President, United Way

Dr. Sylvia Manning
Chancellor, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

Norma Moruzzi
Professor, UIC

2001

Bill Haljun
President, Big Ideas

Dr. Cynthia Barron
Principle, Jones Magnet High School

Dr. Lainie Friedman Ross
University of Chicago

Katherine Gehl
Office of the Mayor

Hedy Ratner
Co-President, Women's Business Development Center

Mike Nash
Suite Life

John McCarter
President, Field Museum

Andy Shaw
Channel 7 (ABC)

2000

MarySue Barrett
Executive Director, Metropolitan Planning Council

Pastora SanJuan Cafferty Ph.D.
Professor, School of Social Service Administration

Burton Bledstein
Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago

Elaine Schuster Ph.D.
Superintendent of Schools, Archdiocese of Chicago Office of Catholic Education

Shaye Mandle
President, llinois Coalition

Phillip Jackson
CEO, Chicago Housing Authority

Tom Kirkpatrick
Executive Director, Chicago Crime Commission

Tom Grey
Executive Director, National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling

1999

Dr. Phillip Nyden
Director, Center for Urban Research & Learning, Loyola University Chicago

Julia Stasch
Commissioner Of Housing,

Rev. Monsignor Kenneth Velo
President, The Catholic Church Ext. Society

John McCarter
President, Field Museum

Paul Vallas
CEO, Chicago Public Schools

Eric McKissack
Ariel Capital Management

Valerie Lies
President, Donors Forum

Laurene von Klan
Executive Director, Friends of the River

Dr. Richard Braddock

1998

Joseph Sullivan
Chairman, Exec. Committee IMC Global, Inc. and Bd. of Dirs., American Refugee Committee

Terrence Brunner
Executive Director, Better Government Association

1997

Dr. Joan Fitzgerald
Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago

Loleta Didrickson
Comptroller, State of Illinois

1996

Charlie Ruder
CEO, The United Way

1995

Vince Lane
Executive Director, Chicago Housing Authority

Jobie Peterson
City of Chicago

1994

Inge Frylund
Adjunct Professor, Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management

Eileen Kelliher
Sr. Health Planner, Metropolitan Planning Council

1993

ReDonna Rodgers
Executive Director, Center for Teaching Entrepreneurship

Dennis Chase
Executive Editor, Advertising Age

1992

Alex Kotlowitz
Wall Street Journal

Alan Carlson
President, The Rockford Institute

1991

Stephen Laue
Information Services Specialist, U.S. Bureau of Census

John J. Schornack
Vice Chairman, Ernst & Young

1990

Michael Darcy
Executive Director, Gateway Foundation

1989

Frank W. Considine
Chairman, American National Can Company

1988

1987

Gerald Erickson
President, United Charities of Chicago

1986

Hanna Gray
President, University of Chicago