Cultural Advisory Council
Cultural Advisory Council Members
(as of 11/28/22)
Amina J. Dickerson - Chair
Alison Cuddy - Vice Chair
Alison Cuddy - Artistic Director, Chicago Humanities Festival
Amina J. Dickerson - President, Dickerson Global Advisors
Juan Díes - Co-Founder & Executive Director, Sones de México Ensemble
Bob Faust - Owner, Faust and Special Projects Director, Nick Cave Studio
E. Brooke Flanagan - Executive Director, Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Robert Gomez - Owner, Subterranean/Beat Kitchen/Underbar; Co-founder of Chicago Independent Venue League (CIVL)
Esther Grisham Grimm - Executive Director, 3Arts
Tracie D. Hall - Executive Director, American Library Association
Akilah S. Halley - Executive Director, Marwen
Tempestt Hazel - Curator, Write and Co-Director, Sixty Inches from Center
Kevin Iega Jeff - Creative Director, Deeply Rooted Productions
Blake-Anthony Johnson - Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Sinfonietta
Ginger Lane - Arts & Culture Project Director, Access Living
Josephine Lee - President & Artistic Director, Chicago Children’s Choir
Tonika Lewis Johnson - Artist, Folded Map Project
Bill Michel - Associate Vice President and Executive Director of UChicago Arts and the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago
Cesáreo J. Moreno - Chief Curator & Visual Arts Director, National Museum of Mexican Art
Margaret C. Murphy-Webb - Executive Director & Co-Founder, South Side Jazz Coalition
Coya Paz - Artistic Director, Free Street Theater
Claire C. Rice - Executive Director, Arts Alliance Illinois
Silvia Rivera - Business Strategist, Listening Post Collective
Edra Soto - Artist
Paul J. Sznewajs - CEO, Parliament
Vivian Teng - Managing Director, Cinema/Chicago and the 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
Tanner Woodford - Founder & Executive Director, Design Museum of Chicago
Debra Yepa-Pappan - Native Community Engagement Coordinator, Field Museum