Advisory Committee

The Advisory Committee is a group of prominent influencers in Chicago’s African American community committed to using the transformational power of photography to inspire and motivate action for good.

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Adam B. Murphy, MD, MBA, MSCI

Associate Professor of Urology, Endowed Professor of Health Equity Research, Northwestern Medicine

Deborah Minor Harvey

Founder/CEO, The Right Source, Inc.

Paul David Wilson

Producer/Composer, Musician

Ken Rapier

President, Local 110, Projectionist Union; RBS Drone Technologies, Inc.; Chicago Chapter ‘DODO’ Chapter, Tuskegee Airmen Inc.

Patricia J. Redd

Educator (Retired)

Deborah Clair

Director Corporate Relations at the Greater Chicago Food Depository

Professor Timuel Black

✝︎ 2021 – American Historian, Civil Rights Activist, Author

Claire Hartfield

Senior Education Consultant; Author, A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

Rosa Shelton

Vice President, Northern Trust Bank; Retired

Keith Chambers

President, BridgeMaker Consulting Inc.

Robin Jones Watson

Commissioner, West Side Expanded Mental Health Services, Jazz Entertainer

Martin W. Redd

CEO, CMS Trophies+Plaques, Inc.

Christiana Kinder

Administrator, Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois, Chicago

Richard L Dobbins Jr.

President/CEO, South Side Roots, Inc.

Trudy Hobfoll

Finance Director and Executive Board Member

Arthur Mathews

Operations Manager, Department of Conservation and Experiential Programing, Forest Preserves of Cook County

James A. Griffith II

Owner, Creative Director / Ja Griff Productions

Edith (Mama Edie) C. McLoud Armstrong

Bilingual Storyteller, Speech/Language Therapist, Educational Consultant

Isaiah Day

Student

Matthew Williams

Diversity & Inclusion Practitioner

Kendall Mallette

Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at DePaul College Prep

Thad Smith

Ecopreneur

Alanna Redd

CPS Teacher

Kelvin Jackson

WGN Photographer and Editor