Selections Committee Chairs

Alicia Tate-Nadeau, Executive Director, Illinois Emergency Management Agency & Illinois Homeland Security Advisor

Dr. A. Kyle Mack, Attending Physician, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital

Selections Committee

Chuck Battaglia, Deputy Director, City-wide Operations, OEMC

Reverend Randall Blakey, Executive Pastor, LaSalle Street Church

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas A. Cho, Commander, 6th Battalion, U.S. Military Entrance 

Sean Garrett, CEO, United Way

Chad Jones, Chief of Staff - Office of the Regional Administrator, Region 5, FEMA

Director Brendan Kelly, Director, Illinois Police Department

Kamala Martinez, President & CEO, United Way of Will County

Fire Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt, Fire Commissioner, Chicago Fire Department

Roxanne Nava, Executive Director, Metropolitan Family Services

James Sifuentes, Senior Vice President, Mission & Community Development, St. Anthony's Hospital

Chief Alicia Steffes, Police Chief, Morris Police Department

Gina Strafford-Ahmed, Administrator of Intake & Referral, Dupage County Community Services

Maria Woltjen, Founder, The Young Center