Cultural Advisory Council Members

(as of 10/21/24)

Coya Paz - Chair

Blake-Anthony Johnson - Vice Chair

Alison Cuddy – Writer, Cultural Producer

Amina J. Dickerson - President, Dickerson Global Advisors

Juan Díes - Co-Founder & Executive Director, Sones de México Ensemble

Bob Faust - Artist/Designer, Faust, Facility Chicago and Nick Cave Studio

E. Brooke Flanagan - Executive Director, Steppenwolf Theatre

Robert Gomez - Owner, Subterranean/Beat Kitchen/Bar Sol on Navy Pier; Co-founder of CIVL: Chicago Independent Venue League

Esther Grimm - Executive Director, 3Arts

Akilah Halley - Executive Director, Marwen

Kevin Iega Jeff - Co-Founder, Deeply Rooted Productions

Blake-Anthony Johnson - President & CEO, Chicago Sinfonietta

Josephine Lee - President, Uniting Voices Chicago

Tonika Lewis Johnson - Photographer & Social Justice Artist

Bill Michel - Executive Director, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at The University of Chicago

Cesáreo J. Moreno - Chief Curator & Visual Arts Director, National Museum of Mexican Art

Margaret C. Murphy-Webb - Executive Director, The South Side Jazz Coalition

Coya Paz - Strategic Director, Free Street Theater

Claire Rice - Executive Director, Arts Alliance Illinois

Silvia Rivera - Director, Local News, MacArthur Foundation

Vivian Teng - Managing Director, Chicago International Film Festival

Omar Torres-Kortright - Executive Director, Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center

Kaoru Watanabe - Associate Director, National Cambodian Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial

Tanner Woodford - Founder & Executive Director, Design Museum of Chicago

Debra Yepa-Pappan - Contemporary Native Artist, Co-Founder and Director of Exhibitions and Programs, Center for Native Futures