Board of Directors
President:
Maureen Sweeney, Ph.D.
Partner
Sweeney, Gendel and Associates
Past President
Richard Malone
Senior Vice President and General Manager
Chicago Tribune
Treasurer:
Dale Seaberg
Retired – Lucent Technologies
Vice President:
Maryanne H. Marymont, M.D.
Director, Pediatric Radiation Oncology
Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago
Secretary:
Justin Ballheim
Assistant Brand Manager
Unilever
Andrew Bonk
Sales Associate
Talbot Agency of Illinois, Inc.
Marsha Damian
Sales
and Marketing Consultant
Rena Dickman
The Hartman Family Foundation
Preet Hansra
Senior Manager/Development
Chicago Tribune Company
Kristina E.
Johnsen, M.A.
Executive Director, Have Dreams
Director, The Leventhal Keshet Autism Center
Peggy Lucchesi,
R.N.
Resurrection Hospital
William Manika
Retired – United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
Scott Metrick,
M.D.
Neurologist
Lake Forest Hospital
Joseph
Nowik
Director
of Operations
Radionic
Timothy Sweeney
Principle
Quadrangle
Advisory Board
Bennett L. Leventhal, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Center for Child Mental Health and Developmental Neuroscience
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
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 six times a year at noon, with members serving on designated
project-specific committees.
Cheryl
Axley
State
Senator 33rd District
Richard E. Brayer
Car-X
David 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
Sales and Marketing Consultant
Kim Denkewalter
Denkewalter & Angelo
James G. Duff
GreatBank, N.A.
Dan Hill
UbiStor
Robyn
Konlon
Konlon &
Associates
Ann Limjoco
Office of U.S. Rep Jan Schakowsky
Richard Malone
Chicago
Tribune
Paul Mayor
N-1 Technologies
Rosemary Mulligan
State Representative 65th District
Erin O'Hara
Dalzell
Financial Group
John
Preschlack
GOLF
MAGAZINE
Fred R. Sasser
Chicago Freight Car Leasing Co.
Joe Schwall
Northern
Trust
Dale Seaberg
Retired – Lucent Technologies
Dave Sullivan
Raucci & Sullivan Strategies, LLC
John Swanson
ARAMARK
Corporation
David Vucovich
Merrill Lynch
Jeff Wolinski
N-1 Technologies
Administrative Staff
Kristina E. Johnsen
Executive Director
Melanie Johnsen
Administrative Coordinator
Dana La Brose
Program Coordinator
Bobbi Frazes
Goldman
Director of Development
Claire Cerezo
Business Coordinator
Program Staff
All program staff is trained by specialists
in the field of autism. Supervisors have a minimum of 10 years
experience working with children with autism and are endorsed
as TEACCH trainers by Division TEACCH. Many of our program facilitators
have advanced degrees or are pursuing advanced degrees in special
education, psychology, social work, or related fields.
