Cohort, 2024, Industry, Education, Sector, Academia, Yasmeen Muhammad has passionately served Chicago Public Schools for over 17 years. She is the humble principal of Louis Nettelhorst Elementary School and is driven by the Masai greeting, "And how are the children?" She has an unwavering commitm...

Cohort, 2025, Industry, Housing & Transportation, Sector, Private Sector, Social Media, Ghanem Zureikat is a global senior product manager at UL Solutions and a leader in product safety and compliance. With over 18 years of experience, he has become a recognized authority in fire and life safety ...

Cohort, 2023, Industry, Education, Sector, Academia, Christopher Graves is the principal at Jordan Elementary and was previously the principal of LaSalle Language Academy, a K-8th-grade magnet lottery school in Chicago Public Schools. With over a decade of experience as a school administrator, he...

Cohort, 2024, Industry, Marketing, Communications, & Media, Sector, Private Sector, Ryan Farrell is a consultant at Edelman, the global communications firm. He advises senior clients at Fortune 500 companies, international NGOs and nonprofits on corporate positioning, narrative and messaging. He ...

Cohort, 2023, Industry, Culture & the Arts, Sector, Non-profit, Asha Iman Veal is Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Her exhibitions Beautiful Diaspora/You Are Not the Lesser Part and LOVE: Still Not the Lesser brought together cross-diasporic conversations between globa...

Cohort, 2011, Industry, Business & Consulting, Sector, Private Sector, Joe McCluskey is currently a founder and principal at JTM Advisory, an information technology and services company. He brings experience from previous roles at E & R Industrial, a specialty brand of Grainger and Grainger. He h...

Global Cities intern Paula Pelletier examines what cities should do with programs formed in response to COVID-19.

Cohort, 2021, Industry, Healthcare, Sector, Academia, Suchi Bansal is a gender and adolescent health consultant and previously a senior health research specialist at the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health (Ci3) at the University of Chicago. Ci3 i...

Cohort, 2023, Industry, Housing & Transportation, Sector, Private Sector, Mika Clark Tupy is managing director of alliances at United Airlines where she oversees the global strategic direction for United’s Alliance Operations team which strives for a seamless customer experience across United a...

Cohort, 2021, Industry, Environment & Sustainability, Sector, Private Sector, In his previous role at engineering consulting firm Sargent & Lundy, Jon Horek advised clients and delivered projects in the electric utility, gas utility, heavy industry, institutional, and commercial building sectors....