Board of Directors

Lorraine Arvin joined The University of Chicago in 2009 and serves as the Assistant Vice President for Finance and Treasurer. She has overall responsibility for treasury functions including cash and debt management and is a key member of the Financial Services management team.

Arvin has over 20 years of experience of working with educational institutions in a variety of roles. Most recently, for nine years she held the position of Vice President of Finance and Operations at The Latin School of Chicago. Her responsibilities at Latin included finance, human resources, facilities, information technology and support of the Board of Trustees.

Prior to this time, Arvin was President of Arvin Resources, Inc. a consulting firm serving educational and other nonprofit institutions. Consulting areas included governance, organizational development and strategy, performance improvement, systems development and financial planning.

Arvin began her career at KPMG Peat Marwick and held progressively responsible positions which led to ultimately serving as a Partner in the firm’s educational and other nonprofit institutions practice.

Arvin received a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Master of Education from Loyola University Chicago and a Ph.D. in Education from Loyola University Chicago and is a Certified Public Accountant.

is a Partner in Goldberg Kohn, Ltd. Litigation Group and is the chair of the firm's Education Industry Practice. He was recently featured in the National Law Journal's list of 10 of the nation's top litigators. In 2007, he was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Public Justice Foundation. He was runner-up for that same award in 2006.

Mr. Chizewer served as co lead trial counsel in two of the country's most prominent public interest cases to be tried in the past several years. In United States of America ex. rel. Cleveland A. Tyson, et al. v. Amerigroup Corporation, et al., he obtained for the government and his client the largest verdict in the history of the federal false claims act; in Memisovski, et al. v. Patla, he obtained a declaratory judgment against the State of Illinois, resulting in hundreds of millions of additional dollars worth of health care to Illinois children. Mr. Chizewer has more than 15 years of experience litigating complex commercial cases in courts throughout the country. He has been an expert witness, frequent speaker, and author on a variety of litigation topics.

In his civic work, Mr. Chizewer is a recognized expert on charter schools, having co-founded two charter school organizations: Chicago International Charter School and Illinois Network of Charter Schools (INCS). He was a member of the Education Policy Group for the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign. In May 2005, he argued a seminal charter school case before the Illinois Supreme Court. Mr. Chizewer has been a frequent speaker on education reform topics.

Mr. Chizewer received his law degree from the University of Chicago in 1991 and his B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Pomona College in 1988. Mr. Chizewer is the president of the board of the Chicago International Charter School.

is a Partner at Laner, Munchin, Dombrow, Becker, Levin and Tominberg where she specializes in labor and employment law. Ms. Clark has been name one of the leading Lawyers in Illinois and was selected as one of Illinois' "Super Lawyers" in labor and employment law.

Prior to joining Laner, Ms. Clark served as a staff attorney with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago and as a Trial Attorney with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Ms. Clark currently serves as a Hearing Officer for the City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations and the Cook County Human Rights Commission. Ms. Clark is a member of the Black Women Lawyers Association and the Cook County Bar Association. She serves as the Vice President of the United States Tennis Association/Midwest Section. Additionally, Ms. Clark is a founding member of Friends of CICS Tennis, whose mission is to broaden tennis opportunities for CICS students. Ms. Clark received her law degree from Cornell University Law School and her B.A. from Brown University in 1979.

received her doctoral degree in speech pathology from Northwestern University in 1979, and founded Leap Learning Systems in 1988. She has teaching and clinical experience, and has held numerous positions in the field's state and national associations. A few of note include: 2008 President of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, President of the Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Legislative Counselor to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Council on Professional Ethics and Ethical Practices Board, and she has served as the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Vice President of Governmental and Social Policies.

Dr. Gottfred is extremely active in professional and community affairs. As President and Founder of Leap Learning Systems, a non-profit organization dedicated to language and literacy development, she oversees the development and delivery of training programs and curricula to educators who work with Chicago’s underserved youth.

joined Medill School of Journalism as Chief Marketing Officer in November of 2006. Prior to this, he was president of GreenHouse Communications, Inc., an advertising and marketing firm founded in 1990, and executive vice-president of MediaMixNet.Inc., sister company to GreenHouse. Previously, Mr. Hayden was executive vice-president and general manager of the Chicago office of Campbell Mithun, formerly Bozell Worldwide. Prior to Bozell, Mr. Hayden spent eight years at DDB Needham. He began his career in the 1970s at Leo Burnett. Mr. Hayden has taught courses in advertising and integrated marketing communications at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

Mr. Hayden has served on the board of directors of Bozell Worldwide and the board of Trustees of the Oakmark family of mutual funds, currently serving on the Audit Committee and as chair of the Management Contracts Committee. He previously chaired the Committee on Governance. Mr. Hayden has served on the board of directors of Junior Achievement, the Juvenile Protective Association, and as Administrative Vice Chair of Illinois Swimming, Inc. Mr. Hayden received his B.A. and law degrees from St. Louis University.

has specialized in the municipal bond markets throughout his 32-year professional investment career. Mr. Henderson is founder of C.W. Henderson & Associates, Inc., an investment-counseling firm that specializes in tax-exempt municipal securities and manages assets totaling approximately $2 billion. Prior to starting the firm in 1991, Mr. Henderson spent 15 years at the First Boston Corporation (now Credit Suisse First Boston), where he managed the Chicago municipal securities division for seven years. During his tenure with First Boston, he was chosen by management to be one of five registered principals in the Chicago office of 175 employees.

He is a founding member and has served as president of the board of directors of the Daniel Murphy Scholarship Foundation. He has served as president of the Municipal Bond Club of Chicago and as an arbitrator for both the N.A.S.D. and the M.S.R.B. Mr. Henderson received his B.S. in accounting from Western Michigan University and passed the CPA Exam in 1975. Mr. Henderson is the vice president of the board of the Chicago International Charter School.

is a principal at Goldberg Kohn, Ltd. where he specializes in tax planning and corporate creation. Since receiving his Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1975, Mr. Jenkins has become an accomplished attorney, author, and lecturer. He is an adjunct professor in the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law at the John Marshall Law School. Prior to joining Goldberg, Kohn, he was a partner with McDermott, Will & Emory.

He has served both as president and as a board member of Highland Park School District #108. He is a board member of The Mundanus Foundation and the Green Street Project, and is a member of the Information Technology Committee for the Illinois Coalition. Mr. Jenkins is past president of the board of Chicago International. He received his B.A. from Eastern Illinois University and his law degree from Harvard University.

is a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in their Chicago office. Prior to joining BCG, Ms. Lee was a consultant at The Monitor Group specializing in marketing and corporate strategy. Previous project work has included strategic planning for a nationwide high school network and organization redesign of the Special Education department of a large urban district.

Ms. Lee also serves on the board of Bright Endeavors. She holds an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Business (with coursework in non-profit board governance) and a BA from Northwestern University.

is the owner and president of Nieman Inc., a privately held company that specializes in developing curriculum materials for educational publishers. His company specializes in writing and designing curriculum in reading, language arts, literature, ESL, and social studies for students in grades K-12. A graduate of Northwestern University, he is a former elementary teacher and was for 18 years a marketing director and the vice-president of Reading, Language Arts, and Literature at Scott Foresman and Company.

Tom also has co-authored a number of textbook series, such as the Daybooks of Reading and Writing, The Reading and Writing Sourcebooks, The Reader's Handbooks, and Academic Workout. In addition, he has created ACCESS, a middle school series for English language learners, as well as, among others the American Documents series and World Histories series for National Geographic. Mr. Nieman is currently the secretary of the board for Chicago International.

is a manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in their business assurance practice. She is a licensed certified public accountant in the state of Illinois. She earned her B.S. from Boston College and also has a master's degree in social service administration from the University of Chicago. Ms. Thonn has previously served on the board of directors for Onward Neighborhood House, as a social worker for high school students, and as a program assistant for Voices for Illinois Children, the leading advocacy organization serving children and families in Illinois. Ms. Thonn is the treasurer of the board for Chicago International.