Treasurer’s Advisory Council
The mission of the Treasurer’s Advisory Council (TAC) is to facilitate communication between the Treasurer’s Office and diverse communities throughout the State of Illinois. The Councils help identify, celebrate, and embrace the accomplishments of our diverse majority-minority community through increased education and communication. They also seek to collect, analyze, and interpret information on ethnic and cultural issues and disseminate reports when deemed appropriate, to the State Treasurer’s Office and other interested groups and individuals.
African American Advisory Council
Dr. Felicia Blasingame
CEO of South Central Community Services, Inc. (SCCS)
Victoria Brady
Executive Director and Founding Board Member of ABJ Community Services, Inc.
Twin D. Green
Founding President & CEO, The Link & Option Center, Inc.
Teresa Haley
President, Illinois NAACP since 2015
Mildred Harris
Founder, Pastor and CEO of God First – Church and Ministries – Founder and CEO of the Women’s Ministry Alliance of Chicago
E. Bernard Jennings
Executive Director, Lawndale Business Renaissance Association (LBRA)
Asian Advisory Council
Aurora Austriaco
Principal at Austriaco and Associates, Ltd.
Lawrence Benito
CEO/Executive Director, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR)
Tammy Chiemmongkoltip
Management Consulting Professional
Selma D’Souza
Executive Director, Indo-American Center
M. Hameed Khan
Community leader and member of the Pakistan Federation of America Chicago
Jin Lee
Director of Government Relations, Albany Park Community Center
Hispanic Advisory Council
Greg Aguilar
Director of Talent Attraction and Retention at Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce
Alex Alcantar
Procurement Technical Assistance Center Director, Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (IHCC)
Elba Aranda-Suh
Executive Director of the National Latino Education Institute (NLEI)
Martin Cabrera
CEO and Founder of Cabrera Capital Markets
Olga Camargo
Managing Partner at Toroso Investments, LLC
Edgar Delgado
Public servant for the General Services Administration
LGBT Advisory Council
Tara Bell-Janowick
Vice President, community relations chair and volunteer at the Rainbow Café of Carbondale
Dave Bentlin
Administrative Assistant to the President of Illinois State University
Dr. Jonna Cooley
Executive Director of the Phoenix Center
Kim Hunt
Executive Director of Pride Action Tank (PAT)
Kathleen Robbins
Co-founder of the Jatrofa Projenou in Haiti and Executive Director of McKinley Foundation at the University of Illinois
Julio Rodriguez
Director of Program Services, WFD, Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO), and Co-Founder of the Association for Latin Men for Action (ALMA)
Veterans Advisory Council
Todd Connor
CEO of Bunker Labs and Co-founder of Flank 5 Academy
Kelly Demers
Vice president at BNY Mellon Wealth Management
Constance Edwards
Associate Professor at Governors State University
Megan Everett
Director of the Robert R. McCormick Foundation Veterans Program
James Flagg
President and Co-Founder of the Warrior Summit Coalition
Len Harris
Director of the National Able Network’s Veterans Forward program
Womens Advisory Council
Judith Alexander
Co-Founder and Chairwoman of North Avenue Zoning and Development Advisory Committee (NAZDAC)
Marta Almodovar
Administrative supervisor for the Cook County Circuit Court’s Mandatory Arbitration Center
Beth Doria
Executive Director, Federation of Women Contractors
Regina Dove
Public relations strategist
Sammer Ghouleh
Founder and CEO of Spirit Magazine
Janaan Hashim
Professor at McCormick Theological Seminary; criminal defense attorney with the State Appellate Defenders Office in Chicago