Erin Amico
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....
Brooke Flanagan
Chevy Humphrey
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,...
Megan Ross
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
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
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...
Joyce Simon
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...
Elizabeth Dunlop Richter
Elizabeth Dunlop Richter is president of The Richter Group, a strategic communications consulting practice that support both nonprofit and commercial organizations with expertise in branding, messaging, communications strategy, public relations, video production and communications planning....
Julieanna Richardson
Born June 10, 1954 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Julieanna L. Richardson created a unique path to founding and heading up the largest national collection effort of African American video oral histories on record. With a diverse...
Lynn Joyce Osmond
A longstanding proponent of Chicago’s tourism and hospitality industry, Lynn Osmond has taken the reins as President and CEO of Choose Chicago—the first woman to helm the organization. Osmond previously served as President and CEO...