Jan Douglas is founder and principal of the Symbiocon Group a national network of consultants who specialize in Human Capital Risk Management.

Symbiocon brings together experienced independent consultants to  provide creative solutions to problems affecting the health and productivity of a client’s workforce. Areas of focus include health and  wellness; occupational health and safety; performance management and  workplace communication.

Douglas was, formerly, a managing director  with Marsh USA Inc.  where she managed  a broad range of services in Workers Compensation, Health Risk Management; Operations and Asset Management; Complex Liability Claims and Environmental Consulting.

She also served as Business Leader for a joint venture between Marsh Risk Consulting and Mercer Human Resource Consulting, specializing in the design and evaluation of integrated programs to manage both occupational and non-occupational disability and absence.

Previously, Douglas was a Director,  Employee Benefits Services, Price Waterhouse LLP and  a Principal with Mercer Human Resources Consulting.  Before  moving to the United States, from her native England, Douglas served with the United Nations World Health Organization in the African and South- East Asian Regions.

Throughout her career, Douglas had made frequent presentation at national and international conferences and has a number of publications, including three books to her credit.   Her most recent book, “  a Field Guide to Workers’ Compensation- a Holistic Approach to Improving the Health, Safety and Productivity of Human Capital’ was   released in May 2010.

Douglas currently serves as  a  Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the United Nations Association of Greater Chicago ;    A member of the Advisory Board of the National Institute of Disability Rehabilitation and Research(NIDRR) Stroke program and a member of the Board of  the Disability Management Employer Coalition. Douglas served, for eight years, as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at the UIC School of Public Health.

In her role as a member of the Board of Directors of RefugeeOne, Douglas is  working with the  leadership team to develop a comprehensive  approach to human capital management.

One, Douglas is working with the leadership team to develop a comprehensive approach to human capital management.

Hartwig Zakin is the Operations Manager for Circo Vino, a national importer of fine wines from Austria. Prior to his tenure at Circo Vino, Zakin was the Operations Manager for the Illinois Medical District, a commercial banking research assistant at Deutsche Bank, a sales representative at Vin Divino and a case specialist in the Better Business Bureau’s consumer arbitration division. Hartwig is a member of the Evanston Citizens Police Academy and has mediated juvenile victim-offender cases with the Neighborhood Restorative Justice Institute. As an immigrant who came to the United States when he has 11, Zakin has long been passionate about refugee issues and joined the board of Refugee One in October 2009. Hartwig Zakin holds a Masters degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a Bachelors degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California.

Edward Wheatley is Professor of English at Loyola University. Full bio and photo coming soon.

After serving four years in the United States Marine Corps and receiving two meritorious promotions leading to the rank of Sergeant, John decided to transition his career aspirations to the business and nonprofit sectors.  Over the last 15 years he has had a mixture of business, non-profit and faith based work experience with a specific focus over the last 5 years on social entrepreneurship and the various issues surrounding business, community development, urban poverty and social ethics.  With Master degrees in Urban Studies (2000), Theological Studies (2001) and Religion in American Life (2004) John began working with Cara/ Cleanslate in July, 2006.

John is co-founder and President of Social Enterprise Development Group which is a Chicago based consulting firm focused on the development of social enterprise ventures and is also co-founder and partner with Talents Capital which is a boutique investment and real estate holding firm focused on aligning social return and opportunity.  He currently is the Managing Director of Cleanslate where he is responsible for business operations, including personnel management, budgeting, planning, quality control, and business expansion in support of the program services of Cleanslate’s nonprofit parent company, The Cara Program.  John continued his graduate work at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, MBA (2011) and North Park University’s School of Business and Nonprofit Management, Master’s in Nonprofit Management (2010).

John is an active board member at RefugeeOne (Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee), Accion Chicago and the Chicago Historic Bungalow Association along with a second term on Chicago’s Community Development Advisory Committee.  John is an active member of the President’s Circle of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and also serves on Chicago’s Sister City Casablanca Committee. I was a finalist two times for Chicago’s Nonprofit Executive of the year Award (2007 and 2009).  John is an avid reader of theology, philosophy, ethics, and history and enjoys sports having previously played and coached basketball.  John is married with eight children and lives in Chicago.

Befekadu Retta is Field Coordinator at Cook County Election Department. Full bio and photo coming soon.

Douglas Meyer is Pastor at Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit. Full bio and photo coming soon.

Adam Gleich is the Owner of Gleich Trading. Full bio and photo coming soon.

Brian Chapman is the President of Grenbebach Glier Associates. Full bio and photo coming soon.

Gabrielle Buckley is an Attorney at Vedder Price P.C. Full bio and photo coming soon.

The Rev. Dr. Stephen Paul Bouman was called to the position of Executive Director for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Evangelical Outreach and Congregational Mission unit in November, 2007 and officially assumed office in February, 2008.

He previously served as bishop of the ELCA Metropolitan New York Synod from September 1996 through January 2008.  The Metropolitan New York Synod, or district, embraces the five boroughs of New York City, Long Island, and several counties north and west.  It includes 236 member congregations.

Pastor Bouman was born in Melrose Park, Illinois on April 14, 1947.  He graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary/Seminex in 1973.  He received his Master of Sacred Theology from New York Theological Seminary in 1978 and his Doctor of Ministry degree in 1980 and an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in 2001.

He began his pastoral ministry in 1973 at St. Jacobus Lutheran Church, Woodside, Queens.  He then pastored Atonement Lutheran Church, Jackson Heights, from 1974 until 1981; and Trinity Lutheran Church, Bogota, New Jersey from 1982 through 1992.  He is founder of the Diakonia ministry education program, which trains lay people for ministry in local congregations.  His parish ministry also included building strong multicultural outreach, the launching of two parochial schools, and a variety of ministries of assistance and advocacy among the poor.

Pastor Bouman served as Assistant to the Bishop from 1992 until his election as bishop in 1996.  His responsibilities in this capacity included regional care of congregations in the Bronx, Manhattan, Westchester and northern counties of the Hudson Valley.  In addition, he bore primary responsibility for evangelism and social ministry, as well as worship and communications.  He also served as Chair of the ELCA Board of Higher Education and Schools.  He currently serves on the board of Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Ministries in Chicago, Illinois.

Pastor Bouman is a published author of a number of scholarly articles, books, curricula and devotionals.  Two recent books are They Are Us: Lutherans and Immigration, co-authored with Ralston Deffenbaugh, published in 2009 and Grace All Around Us, published in 2007.

He is married to the former Janet Luce, and they have three grown children and three grandchildren.  They reside in Chicago.

Ronald Baulsbaugh, Retired Executive, Quaker Oats (Bio & Photo Coming Soon)

Sioban Albiol, Professor, DePaul University College of Law (Bio & Photo Coming Soon)

Alan Khalil, Chief Executive, Inverbrass Funds, LLC (Bio & Photo Coming Soon)

Pam Hultgren, National Administrator, Ministry Mentors (Bio & Photo Coming Soon)

Kenneth Johnson, Pastor, Mayfair Lutheran Church (Bio & Photo Coming Soon)

Ahmed Rehab is an American Muslim activist and writer with a focus on contemporary social issues including civil rights, media relations, and Islam-West relations.

Rehab is a regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune, the Huffington Post, and CNN.com, his Op-Eds have been published in numerous newspapers around the country, and he has been interviewed numerous times by the Chicago Sun-Times, the Daily Herald, the Washington Post, the Orlando Sentinel, the Economist, the Boston Globe, Crain’s Business Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Germany’s Die Zeit, and many more.

Rehab is also a frequent guest on TV and cable news networks including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, BBC, as well as on radio stations. His commentaries can be heard on Chicago Public Radio.

Rehab is active on the national speaking circuit, he has spoken at organizations and University campuses in Chicago and around the United States, as well as in Europe, Australia, Egypt, and Kenya.

Prior to joining CAIR in August of 2004, Rehab was a software engineer at Arthur Andersen LLP – a global consulting firm; a consultant for Chicago’s Niagara Foundation – a cutting-edge interfaith organization that promotes global fellowship; and a US Soccer Federation Official. He is the founder of Ibex Computers, and Amrex Media.

Ahmed Rehab holds a Masters degree in Software Engineering from DePaul University and a Bachelors in Psychology from the University of Illinois.

Rehab is the Vice-Chairman of RefugeeOne (RefugeeOne.org). He serves as a board member of the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR), the Chicago Human Relations Advisory Committee, and the Egyptian American Society. He also served as a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ (CCGA) Muslim task force, and the Chicago 2016 Arab Leadership Council.

Rehab is an alumnus of the FBI Citizen’s Academy, an Eisenhower fellow of the American Assembly, and a 2009 Recipient of the Lincolnland Legend award.

Ahmed Rehab is currently the Executive Director of CAIR-Chicago, a Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization which under Rehab’s tenure has developed from a start-up into one of the most notable not-for-profit civil rights offices of its kind anywhere in the United States.