| Lydia Cohen, Treasurer, has a Ph.D. in education. In addition to teaching, she has trained teachers and deans and written curriculum for a wide range of educational programs. Lydia is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and is currently attending the 57th Street Meeting in Hyde Park. In New York State, she helped form a nonprofit educational organization and served on its board as secretary or treasurer for five years before moving to the West Coast. Lydia and her husband relocated to Chicago in 2008. |
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| Sophie de la Mar, Administrative Co-Clerk, is a retired nurse practitioner who currently works as an artist and a prison reform advocate. She has worked in the past as a volunteer with the Cub Scouts, Brownies, and Girl Scouts and in Montessori pre-school and public school kindergarten classrooms. She is currently a sojourning member of the Lake Forest Friends Meeting and teaches Sunday school for the pre-school group there. |
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| Faith V. Gately, Recording Clerk, has a BA from Beloit College 1980, and an MS in Community Health Education (Department of Public Health) 1989. Faith is a member of Northside Friends Meeting (Quaker) and has served on many of Northside’s Committee’s, including two years as the Clerk. Faith is a member of Northside Friends Meeting. |
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| John F. Gately has a PhD in Mathematics from Northwestern University and has taught at the university level for over 20 years. His experience includes work on a number of hiring committees and work on the evaluation of academic programs. |
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| Contessa Miller received a Bachelors Degree in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She studied towards a Master’s in Divinity with the Beloved Community’s Seminar of Spiritual Peacemaking. Her interests focus around community building, interfaith activities, pastoral counselling, and writing. Contessa is a member of 57th Street Meeting in Hyde Park, Chicago, where she is the Meeting’s representative to the Hyde Park-Kenwood Interfaith Council, and a member of this organization’s Executive Committee. She has worked in the past as a volunteer with several community programs; and was a volunteer chaplain in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina’s devastation. |
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| Mark Robinson, Presiding Clerk, is an architect who has served and worked with non-profit organizations for twenty years. He lives in the Irving Park neighborhood of Chicago with his wife, Marie White, and his two children Lillian and Signe. Mark is a member of Northside Friends Meeting. |
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