Staff

• Meet the Staff
• Illinois Issues Advisory Board

Meet the Staff

Director/Executive Editor, Center Publications

• Dana Heupel

Editorial

• Managing Editor: Maureen McKinney
• Statehouse Bureau Chief: Jamey Dunn
• Columnist: Charlie Wheeler III
• Associate Editor: Beverley Scobell
• Research Assistant: Kendall Cramer
• Public Affairs Reporting Intern: Ashley Griffin
• Editorial Assistant: Debi Edmund

Business

• Business Manager: Toni L. Langdon
• Marketing & Circulation Assoc. Director: Linda S. Anderson
• Circulation Fulfillment Assistant: (Vacant)
• Student Assistant: Kelly Portillo-Lopez

Advisory Board

Chair

• Mike Lawrence, retired director, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Vice Chair

• Dawn Clark Netsch, professor of law emeritus, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago.

Members

• MarySue Barrett, president, Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago.
• Cynthia Canary, former executive director, Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, Chicago.
• Robert J. Christie, vice president, government relations, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago.
• Valerie Denney, president, Valerie Denney Communications, Chicago.
• Kathleen Dunn, vice president, government relations, Illinois Hospital Association, Springfield.
• Jim Edgar, senior fellow, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois.
• Robert Gallo, senior state director, AARP Illinois.
• Sharon Gist Gilliam, chairperson, Chicago Housing Authority.
• Graham Grady, partner, K&L Gates, Chicago.
• Doris B. Holleb, professorial lecturer, University of Chicago.
• Bethany Jaeger, management consultant, Kerber, Eck and Braecel, Springfield.
• Jeff Mays, president, Illinois Business Roundtable, Chicago.
• Brad McMillan, executive director, Institute for Principled Leadership in Public Service, Bradley University, Peoria.
• Laurence J. Msall, president, The Civic Federation, Chicago.
• Diana Nelson, consultant, Chicago.
• Sylvia Puente, executive director, Latino Policy Forum, Chicago.
• Philip J. Rock, attorney, Rock, Fusco & Associates, LLC, Chicago.
• John R. Rosales, director of Chicago City Colleges, south Chicago campus.
• Tom Ryder, attorney, W. Thomas Ryder, LTD, Springfield.
• Charles W. Scholz, attorney, Quincy.
• Alysia Tate, chief operating officer, Community Renewal Society, Chicago.
• Jhatayn "Jay" Travis, executive director, Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, Chicago.
• Corinne Wood, attorney, Lake Forest.

Ex-Officio Members

• Michael Hogan, president, University of Illinois.
• Susan Koch, chancellor, University of Illinois Springfield.
• Dana Heupel, director/executive editor, Center Publications and Illinois Issues
• David Racine, interim executive director, Center for State Policy and Leadership, University of Illinois Springfield.
• Robert F. Rich, director and professor, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois.

Members Emeritus
(years served on board in parentheses)

• Michael J. Bakalis (1983-2001)
• James M. Banovetz (1986-2005)
• James L. Fletcher (1983-2000)
• David Kenney (1978-90)
• Louis H. Masotti (1978-92)
• James T. Otis (1975-94)
• David J. Paulus (1988-94)
• Carl Shier (1978-87).