Founders: Dan Peterman and Connie Spreen
 
Executive Director: Connie Spreen, PhD
 
President/Treasurer: Marty Friedman, Vice-President and General Counsel, Dearborn Wholesale Grocers
Vice-President/Secretary: Kate Miller, Paralegal, AIDS Legal Council
Directors:
Linda Glass, Art collector, Science editor
Dan Peterman, Artist, Associate Professor of Art (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Past Board President
Faheem Majeed, Artist, Former Executive Director Southside Community Arts Center
Flora Lazar, PhD, Owner Flora's Confections, Film Producer Kings of Pastry, formerly Public Affairs Director at Chapin Hall (University of Chicago)
Rita Perry, Retired Chicago Police Officer
 
 
Advisory Board:
Ken Dunn, Director, Resource Center
Thomas Frank, Author, Chief Editor, The Baffler magazine
Susanne Ghez, Director, Renaissance Society
Judith Russi Kirshner, Dean, College of Architecture and the Arts (UIC)
Kerry James Marshall, Artist
Jane M. Saks, Executive Director, Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media (Columbia College Chicago)