Cohort, 2016, Industry, Education, Sector, Non-profit, Previously, Bela Moté led the department at YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago responsible for developing and managing cross-functional learning, evaluation, and innovation. She also served as interim senior vice president of Mission Advancement. ...

Cohort, 2012, Industry, Advocacy & International Development, Sector, Private Sector, Prior to Embark Strategies, Sonya Anderson supported the development of early childhood education programs and policies for the Ounce of Prevention Fund. She previously worked for the Oprah Winfrey Foundation, o...

Cohort, 2017, Industry, Education, Sector, Academia, Social Media, Luis Alfredo Narváez Gete, born and raised in Mexico City, is the former director of strategic projects for the Office of Language and Cultural Education at Chicago Public Schools. He worked to support the city's 70,000+ English ...

Amrith Aakre , Director, US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Cohort, 2018, Industry, Law, sector, Public Sector, Previously, Amrith Kaur Aakre was the legal director of the Sikh Coalition, where she coordinated legal and policy initiatives to protect the civil rights of all Americans, cr...

In October, I visited Seoul with a delegation of Chicago Council Emerging Leaders on a Korea Foundation-funded trip led by Karl Friedhoff, the Council’s Korea specialist.

August 21, 2023, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Elizabeth Shackelford, AP Photos, A military strengthened by American training, weapons, and intelligence helped create the very problem US assistance was meant to prevent., Burkina Faso is a poor, landlocked country in West Africa that gained independenc...

March 30, 2021, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Amir Farmanesh , and Brendan Helm, REUTERS, Download Report (PDF) Download the Toplines, A joint Council and IranPoll survey shows that although Iranian and American public support for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action has waned...

May 19, 2021, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Karl Friedhoff and Suh Young Park, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), Chicago Council survey data find majorities in South Korea view China as more of a security threat than a security partner and as more of an economic threat than an economic partne...