Board of Directors
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago Board of Directors guides the YWCA in pursuit of our mission to eliminate racism and empower women. Our current board members are:
President
Anna May Trala
Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer
GTCR
Vice Presidents
Edward Taylor
Vice President – Sales, Food North America
Mars Food Company
Treasurer
Sara Staniszewski
Senior Vice President, Wintrust Commercial Bank
Wintrust
Deputy Treasurer
William Campbell
Principal
Slayton Lewis
Secretary
B. Pagels-Minor
Product Person & Speaker
Jennifer Adams
Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary
USG Corporation
Yolanda Ambriz
Group Director – Human Resource Construction Products Segment
ITW
Amiee Bayer-Thomas
Chief Supply Chain Officer
ULTA Beauty
Frannie Besztery
Chief of Staff
Morningstar, Inc.
Audrina Bigos
Anchor
CBS 2 WBBM-TV Chicago
Vilma Chan
Market People Leader
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Stacy Davis
Senior Director, Accounting & Financial Reporting
Blackbaud Inc.
Denise Demaio
Chief Audit Officer
Truist Financial Corp.
Kathryn Ditmars
General Counsel, Chief Human Resources Officer
CRESA GLOBAL INC
Melissa Filipatos
Vice President – Pricing Execution, Sales Support, Sourcing
W.W. Grainger, Inc.
Brenda Fleissner
Partner
EY
Fellicia Foster
Managing Director and Head of U.S. Talent, Inclusion and Change
BMO Harris Bank
Christine Jurish Furie
Managing Director
Deloitte Tax LLP
Irina Konstantinovsky
Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer
Horizon Therapeutics
Danisha Hall
Director, U.S. Leadership and Business Communications
McDonald’s Corporation
John Head
Business Development Manager
Netrix
Glenda Henderson
Senior Director
Visa
Shilpa Hingwe
Barb Ingold
Tenisha Jackson
Sr. Inclusion & Diversity Leader – AWS Americas
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Julie Jefson
Managing Director and Partner
Boston Consulting Group
Lisa Laws
Chief Operating Officer
1871
Jennifer Martinez
Senior Director of Communications
Chicago Cubs
Kim Mauller
Director of Marketing Insights-Innovation and Foresight- North
Molson Coors Beverage Company
Cynthia McCafferty
President & CEO
Hawthorne Strategy Group, Inc
Chelsea McCarthy
Partner
Holland & Knight
Jackie McLaughlin
EVP and Chief Legal Officer
UL
Tracey Mendrek
Chief Executive Officer
Intentional Genius
Tracey Nott-Seward
Dr. Charlotte Owens
Vice President, Head of R&D Center for Health Equity and Patient Affairs
Takeda
Bridget Penney
Chief People Officer
Applied Systems
Shannon Pierce
Vice President, Growth & Chief External Affairs Officer
SouthStar Energy Services
Karen Pittenger
President
Black Olive
Michelle Redd-Newell
Principle and Owner
Building Blocks Learning Academy
Tameca Reed
Senior Manager Director, Head of Client Portfolio Management
1834, a division of Old National Bank
Jonathan Reinsdorf
CEO
FroogalPay, LLC
Keith Sanders
Vice President, Business Talent Strategy & Inclusion
CDW
Letitia Snyder
Vaccine Commercial Sector Lead
Pfizer Inc.
Kim Taylor
Vice President and General Counsel
University of Chicago
Cathy Traczek
Neema Varghese
Managing Director
NV Consulting Services LLC
Jonathan Williams
Partner, Chicago Market Head
Dialexa, an IBM Company
Sharon Zackfia, CFA
Partner
William Blair
Patti Barnett
Cindy Burrell
Gwendolyn Butler
Ann Cheeseman
Yolanda Daniel
Melissa Donaldson
Lisa Wilhelm Haag
Beth Hayden
Kimberly Hunter
Nicole Johnson-Scales
JoAnn Lilek
Aletha Noonan
Aurie Pennick
Julie Scott
Kathy Seegebrecht
Deborah Stevens
Karen Tulloch
Joycelyn Winnecke