Board of Directors

Charles M. Kierscht – Chair
Attorney; Former Chairman and CEO, Kemper Financial Services

Stephen J. Schlegel – Vice President
Attorney, Stephen J. Schlegel Ltd.

Edward J. Zelasko – Treasurer
Former CEO

Ronald M. Milnarik – Secretary
D.D.S., Clinical Assistant Professor of Endodontics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry

Barbara A. Birmingham
Regional Steward, West Suburban Region, Forest Preserve District of Cook County; Co-Steward Theodore Stone Forest Preserve

Walter Burlack
Director of Partnerships, Renewable Manufacturing Gateway

Stephen F. Christy, Jr.
Landscape Architect

José H. Colón
Senior Associate, Jameson Real Estate

Margaret A. Frisbie
Executive Director, Friends of the Chicago River

Barbara C. Hill
Political Chair, Sierra Club Illinois Chapter

Jeremy F. Hojnicki
Attorney, private practice

Elisabeth A. Lavery
Conservationist

Akilah R. Martin
Ph.D., Resident Faculty Member, DePaul University

Stephen Packard
Founding Director, Audubon-Chicago Region

Jeffrey Norby
President, Jet

Ginger M. Underwood
President, Friends of the Spring Creek Forest Preserves

Ed Woodbury
President, McCafferey Interests, Inc.