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Friday, May 13, 2016
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Frank Baiocchi is a Senior Program Officer at the Polk Bros. Foundation, where he develops and leads grant-making programs in capacity-building, arts and culture, and youth and family services. He is a founding board member of Ingenuity, Inc. and the Stephen M. Hoenig Memorial Actors Fund and also serves on the board of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois.  He is co-chair of the Arts Work Fund for Organizational Development and the Chicago Arts Education Collaborative, and a member of Chicago Area Donors to End Domestic Violence.   Baiocchi currently teaches a Leadership course at DePaul University and taught "Philanthropy, Public Policy and Community Change" at Loyola University.  He earned his BA from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study and received an MA in social service administration from the University of Chicago.

Kim Daub Olver is an internationally acclaimed transformational leader and has inspired thousands of people to apply the principles of InsideOut Empowerment.  Early in her career she began her journey in Reality Therapy and became an approved instructor for the William Glasser Institute.  Over time she developed her own process called InsideOut Empowerment.  In 2011, Olver began the Academy of Choice which provides Board certification training to counseling professionals. In addition to her own work, she acts as the Executive Director of WGI-US (William Glasser Institute).  She is a published author including two books:  Leveraging Diversity at Work (2010) and Secrets of Happy Couples (2011). Olver received her Master’s degree in Community Counseling, is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, a nationally certified counselor and a board certified coach. 

Shannon Deamer is the Managing Director of the Chicago branch of Careers In Nonprofits, an organization that matches candidates to nonprofit employers. As part of her position, she conducts a workshop, Generational Differences in the Nonprofit Sector, covering the characteristics of the different generations in the workplace. Deamer is certified with the American Staffing Association as both a Certified Staffing Professional and Certified Search Consultant. She received both her BS in Psychology and BA in Sociology from University of New Orleans. She then received her MA in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Louisiana Tech University. Most recently, she completed her coursework toward a Doctorate in Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and is ABD status.

Amy Eisenstein, Ph.D. is the Director of the Leonard Schanfield Research Institute at CJE SeniorLife, in Chicago. She is also Adjunct Assistant Professor at Northwestern University in the Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Medical Social Sciences.  Eisenstein’s training and past experience has focused on the use of mixed research methodologies including methodologies including both quantitative and qualitative strategies.  In her work at CJE, she has been instrumental in bringing different agencies together to accomplish a common goal.  She recently created a research advisory bureau, the Bureau of Sages, that incorporates older adult voices into the research process to that those voices will have direct impact of elder care.  Eisenstein received her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in the School of Public Health, with a focus on Aging in August of 2011. 

Bill Koll is the Director of the Communities Program at McCormick Foundation.  He is responsible for partnering with media outlets and sports teams in six cities across the country.  He also raises funds for local needs and supports programs that assist low income children, youth, and adults in their move toward self-sufficiency.  McCormick Foundation grants out over $19 million annually. Koll began his career with the Foundation as a Program Officer in 1997. Prior to joining the Foundation, he spent four years as the Program Director for the Chicago I Have a Dream Foundation, a social service agency providing tutoring, mentoring, and scholarship programs for youth in low income communities. Koll holds a Master’s degree in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from DePaul University.

Channing Lenert currently serves as Development Officer for Navy Pier, Inc. Within this role, he assists Navy Pier leadership in the advancement efforts for the Pier’s Centennial Celebration; an effort to completely reimagine and redevelop Navy Pier for its next 100 years. Prior to Navy Pier, Lenert served on development and program teams at Working in the Schools (WITS) and served two AmeriCorps terms with City Year Chicago. He was named a Fellow of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) in 2015 and named AFP Chicago’s Chamberlain Scholar in 2016. Lenert received an MS in Nonprofit Management, concentrating in Fundraising Management, from the Spertus Institute and a BA in Political Science from California State University Channel Islands.

Dana Northcott is the Executive Director for EDDNI (Economic Development District of Northern Illinois). She oversees the preparation and submittal of the region’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy  to the U.S. Economic Development Administration and is responsible for assisting and preparing grants for implementation of the CEDS as it pertains to Boone, McHenry and Winnebago Counties.  Previously Northcott held positions with Winnebago County Health Department as Program Manager for the Weed and Seed grant program through the Department of Justice, and later as Program Manager for the Office of Lead Safe Initiatives through the Department of Housing and Urban Development  (HUD). Northcott holds a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Bachelor’s degree in Community Health from the University of Illinois at U-C.