| 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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| Meredith George is an attorney who has been working as an educator for over ten years. She currently serves on the board and as a Homework Circuswork tutor with CircEsteem, Chicago Youth Circus in Uptown. Meredith raised three children who attended nine Chicago schools of which she served seven as a volunteer. Meredith is a member of Evanston Friends Meeting. |
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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. |
| Amanda Sneed currently works with a youth mentoring program. She teaches first day school at the Oak Park Friends Meeting. Amanda earned a BA in Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at the College of Saint Scholastica. She is continuing her studies as a candidate for a MA in Teaching.
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