William D. Burns
Executive Vice President, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
William Burns was elected alderman of Chicago's 4th Ward in 2011. He previously served as an Illinois Representative and vice president of Conlon Public Strategies. Before that, he worked for the Office of the Senate President, the Chicago Urban League, and the Metropolitan Planning Council. He was named one of America’s 30 leaders of the future by Ebony Magazine in 2005 and was an American Marshall Memorial Fellow. He earned both his BA in law, letters, and society and his MA in social sciences from the University of Chicago.