Our Team
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Connie Spreen
Co-founder and Executive Director
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Corey Chatman
Deputy Director of Operations
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Allison Baldwin
Program Associate - Link Up Illinois
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Raja Baptiste
Retail Program Manager - Link Up Illinois
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Merril Chesser
Development Associate
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Aren Chynoweth
Program Manager - Blackstone Bicycle Works
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Emily Cross
Senior Market Manager - 61st Street Farmers Market
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William Franklin
Onsite Manager - City EBT Program
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Kate Gurke
Program Manager - Link Up Illinois
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Joy Joshua
Program Assistant - 61st Street Farmers Market
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Matthew Ruffi
Senior Program Manager - Link Up Illinois
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Ying Tzarm
Communications and Marketing Associate
Board of Directors
President
Former Vice President and General Counsel, Dearborn Wholesale Grocer
Director, Renaissance Society
Marty Friedman
Vice President
Energy sector lawyer, retired
Former Trustee, Carleton College
Former Director, WBEZ Former Director, Crown Youth Center
Former Director, Chicago Council on Urban Affairs
Emmitt House
Co-Founder & Director
Artist, Associate Professor of Art (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Former Board President
Dan Peterman
Mulubwa Munkanta
Treasurer
Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis, SRAM Corporation
Director
Attorney at Law
Beth Loeb
Director
Southwest Airlines
Corliss King
Curatorial Advisor
Office of the President, The University of Chicago
Jill Ingrassia
Director
Principal, Wright
Richard Wright
Director
Architect, Principal, Studio Gang
Steve Wiesenthal