Salme Harju SteinbergDr. Salme Harju Steinberg is an historian, writer, and leader in higher education. A specialist in U.S. economic and social history, she served as president of Northeastern Illinois University between 1995 and 2007....

Ms. Rudnick currently serves as Sr. Advisor to the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago. She previously served as its Executive Director and a Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship at the...

Anna M. Rappaport, F.S.A. Anna Rappaport is an actuary, consultant, author, and speaker. She completed 45 years as a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in 2008. Anna is a nationally and internationally recognized expert...

Mary Ann Hynes was appointed as vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Corn Products International, Inc., in 2006. She came to Corn Products with a wealth of experience in the role of vice...

Media Consultant Mary Ann Childers has achieved success on both sides of the camera. As a consultant to the Chicago-based Res Publica Group public affairs firm, her own media firm, Mary Ann Childers, Inc., specializes...

Jill Wine-Banks is an MSNBC legal analyst, appearing regularly on the network’s prime-time and daytime shows. She began her career as the first female organized crime prosecutor at the US Department of Justice, which led...

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,...

Throughout Carol Wyant’s professional career she has been a transformational change agent. In the early 1980s it was unusual for a woman, working for a full-service real estate firm specializing in downtown mixed-use development to...