(as of 7/11/25)

Coya Paz - Chair

Camille Bacon - Co-Editor-In-Chief, Jupiter Magazine

Kimberly Bares - President and CEO The Magnificent Mile® Association

Juan Díes - Co-Founder & Executive Director, Sones de México Ensemble

Diane Dinkins-Carr - Founder and President, DDC Consulting Group Inc

Bob Faust - Artist/Designer, Faust, Facility Chicago and Nick Cave Studio

Jan Feldman - Executive Director, Lawyers for the Creative Arts

Robert Gomez - Owner, Subterranean/Beat Kitchen/Bar Sol on Navy Pier; Co-founder of CIVL: Chicago Independent Venue League

Esther Grimm - Executive Advisor, 3Arts

Akilah Halley - Executive Director, Marwen

Leslé Honoré - CEO, Urban Gateways

Kevin Iega Jeff - Co-Founder, Deeply Rooted Productions

Tony Karman - President and Director, EXPO Chicago

Josephine Lee - President, Uniting Voices Chicago

Tonika Lewis Johnson - Photographer & Social Justice Artist

Richard Logan - Co-Executive Director and President, The Reva and David Logan Foundation

Patric McCoy - Co-Founder, Diasporal Rhythms

Bill Michel - Executive Director, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at The University of Chicago

Cesáreo J. Moreno - Chief Curator & Visual Arts Director, National Museum of Mexican Art

Margaret C. Murphy-Webb - Executive Director, The South Side Jazz Coalition

Caroline Ng - Executive Director, Chinese American Museum of Chicago

Billy Ocasio - President & CEO The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture

Coya Paz - Strategic Director, Free Street Theater

Jorge Perez - Executive Director, Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater & Center

Claire Rice - Executive Director, Arts Alliance Illinois

Vivian Teng - Managing Director, Chicago International Film Festival

Omar Torres-Kortright - Executive Director, Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center

Kaoru Watanabe - Associate Director, National Cambodian Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial

Debra Yepa-Pappan - Contemporary Native Artist, Co-Founder and Director of Exhibitions and Programs, Center for Native Futures