President
Joseph Nowik
Director of Operations
Radionic Industries, Inc.

Treasurer
Jeff Peterson
CFO
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Secretary
Peggy Lucchesi, R.N.
Mark Twain School - East Maine District 63

Mitch Basson
Managing Director, Debt Capital Markets
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.

Kristina E. Johnsen, M.A.
Executive Director, Have Dreams

Richard Malone
President and Chief Executive Officer
YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago

Maryanne H. Marymont, M.D.
Director, Pediatric Radiation Oncology
Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago

Gregory J. Silich
Chief Executive Officer
CVM Solutions

Mary C. Sweeney
Associate
Clifford Law Offices

Julia Vander Ploeg
Senior Vice President, Marketing
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Advisory Board

Bennett L. Leventhal, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Director, The Center for Child Mental Health and Developmental Neuroscience
Institute for Juvenile Research
University of Illinois at Chicago

Catherine Lord, Ph.D.
Director, University of Michigan Autism and Communication Disorders Center
Senior Research Scientist, The Center for Human Growth and Development and
Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Michigan

Lauren Wakschlag, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Institute for Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry
University of Illinois at Chicago

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Partnership Board
The Have Dreams Partnership Board was launched in 2004 by a group of philanthropic business men and women who wanted to make a difference in the community.

Included among the activities of the Partnership Board are special fundraising events and initiatives, procurement of in-kind donations of services and goods, as well as business networking opportunities to benefit Have Dreams.

Meetings are held periodically, with members serving on designated projects and committees.

Laura Auwerda
National City Bank

Richard E. Brayer
Car-X Auto Service

David N. Brown
Smith Barney

Anthony J. Catalano
New Labor Strategies, Inc.

Crissy Conway
Attorney At Law

Barry Cronin
Cronin Communications, Inc.

Roy F. Cummins
Xpedex

Marsha Damian
NuCare Services Corp.

Rena Dickman
NuCare Services Corp.

Kim Denkewalter
Denkewalter & Angelo

James G. Duff
First Chicago Bank & Trust

Dan Hill
UbiStor

Robyn Konlon
Konlon & Associates

Ann Limjoco
Office of U.S. Rep Jan Schakowsky

Robyn McCloud-Springer
Educator/Freelance Writer

Paul Mayor
N-1 Technologies

Stino Milito
Century 21 Elm, Park Ridge

Rosemary Mulligan
State Representative 65th District

John Preschlack
GOLF MAGAZINE

Fred R. Sasser
Chicago Freight Car Leasing Co.

Joseph R. Schwall
Northern Trust

Dale Seaberg
Lucent Technologies (Retired)

Dave Sullivan
Raucci & Sullivan Strategies, LLC

John Swanson
ARAMARK Corporation

Timothy E. Sweeney
Quadrangle Development Company

Michael J. VanSlambrouck
Chromatech

David Vucovich
Merrill Lynch

Jeff Wolinski
N-1 Technologies

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Administrative Staff

Kristina E. Johnsen, M.A.
Executive Director

Dr. Jeff Salt
Clinical Psychologist

Bobbi Frazes Goldman
Director of Development

Dana LaBrose, M.M.N.A.
Program Coordinator

Melanie Johnsen
Administrative Coordinator

Carolyn Saladino
Financial Manager

Kelly Passaneau
Special Events and Marketing Coordinator

David Murray
Special Events and Marketing Coordinator

Program & Psychological Services Staff
All program staff are trained by specialists in the field of autism. Four members of the Have Dreams staff are Structured Teaching trainers for The Autism Program of Illinois, instructing hundreds of professionals from around the state. Our program supervisors have a minimum of ten years experience working with children with autism and have expertise in the implementation of structured teaching. In addition to a licensed clinical psychologist on staff, many of our program facilitators have advanced degrees or are pursuing degrees in special education, social work, and related fields.

Andrea Johnsen
Site Supervisor, Evanston

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