Mayor-elect Emanuel announces remaining transition committee members

Mayor Elect Emanuel greets Cubs fans at Wrigley Field, 2/25/11

Photo: Max Herman

Today, Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel announced the members of the remaining transition committees. The Mayor-elect previously announced the members of the Government Reinvention and Budget and Education Committees. Filling in the slots on six committees completes the transition team: Economic Development and Planning, Public Safety, Transportation and Infrastructure, Social Services and Healthcare, Energy, Environment and Public Space, and Arts and Culture.

Just a quick gander at the list of names and it is clear that Emanuel isn't just talking the talk about pulling a diverse group together—folks from labor, banking and religious corners of the city are represented. Exactly why I was left off the Arts & Culture list, we will never know. All of course are just a cover for the mayor's plans to sell the Taste of Chicago to Ticketmaster and turn Navy Pier into the world's largest Pier One. The transition teams are listed below.

Economic Development & Planning
Mary Sue Barrett, Metropolitan Planning Council
Frank Beal, Metropolis 2020
Henry Bienen, President Emeritus, Northwestern University
Carol Coletta, CEOs for Cities
Linda Goodman, Goodman Williams Group
Fran Grossman, Urban Partnership Bank
William Logan, Teamsters Local Union 700
Jack Markowski, Community Investment Organization
David Mosena, Museum of Science and Industry
Chinwe Onyeagoro, O-H Community Partners
Juan Salgado, Instituto del Progresso Latino
Julia Stasch, MacArthur Foundation
David Thigpen, Urban League
Whitney Weller, The Michaels Organization
Diane Williams, Safer Foundation
Ernest Wong, Site Design Group

Public Safety
Roseanna Ander, University of Chicago Crime Lab
Felicia Davis, Kendall College
Bishop James Dukes, Liberation Christian Center
Esther Franco-Payne, Metropolis 2020
Monica Haslip, Little Black Pearl Workshop
Annette Holt, Chicago Fire Department
Craig Howard, MacArthur Foundation
Pat Kehoe, Retired Chicago Firefighter
Diane Latiker, Kids Off the Block
Pam Paziotopoulos, Center for Personal Protection & Safety
Father Michael Pfleger, Faith Community of Saint Sabina
Harvey Radney, Hillard Heintze
Michael Rodriguez, Enlace Chicago
Kathy Ryg, Voices for Illinois Children
Cortez Trotter, Trotter Consulting Group
Thomas Vanden Berk, UCAN
Nina Vinik, Joyce Foundation

Transportation and Infrastructure
Michael Alvarez, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
Jack Catlin, LCM Architects
Forrest Claypool, Rise Health
Jim Coyne, Chicago Plumbers Union Local 130
Leslie Darling, Ungaretti and Harris, LLP
Meghan Harte, Earth Tech AECOM
Adolfo Hernandez, Active Transportation Alliance
Kevin Irvine, Equip for Equality
Howard Lerner, Environmental Law & Policy Center
David Narefsky, Mayer Brown
Randy Neufeld, SRAM Cycling Fund
Rev. Dr. Richard Tolliver, St. Edmund’s Episcopal Church

Social Services & Healthcare
Nicole Amling, Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness
Lawrence Benito, ICIRR
Wendy DuBoe, United Way
Ricardo Estrada, Metropolitan Family Services
Bridget Gainer, Cook County Commissioner
Rebecca Gonzalez, Casa Central
Lisa Henry-Reid, Stroger Hospital
Reverend Charles Jenkins, Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church
Jim LoBianco, Streetwise
Kate Maehr, Greater Chicago Food Depository
David Munar, AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Mark Newton, Swedish Covenant Hospital
Gwenn Rausch, Heartland International Health Center

Energy , Environment and Public Space
Jerry Adelmann, Openlands
Erika Allen, Growing Power
Jack Darin, Sierra Club
Cam Davis, Environmental Protection Agency
Naomi Davis, Blacks in Green
Donna Ducharme, Delta Institute
Amy Francetic, Clean Energy Trust
Sunil Garg, Exelon Energy
Christian Mitchell, Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation
Peggy Salazar, Southeast Environmental Task Force
Deb Shore, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
Craig Sieben, Sieben Energy Associates
Mary Ann Smith, 48th Ward Alderman
Kathryn Tholin, Center for Neighborhood Technology
Beth White, Trust for Public Land

Arts & Culture
Lane Alexander, Chicago Human Rhythm Project
Michelle Boone, Joyce Foundation
David Chavez, Sound Culture
Antonia Contro, Marwen
Helen Doria, Helen Doria Consulting
Marj Halperin, Marj Halperin Consulting
Cheryl Hughes, Chicago Community Trust
Mary Ittelson, Museum of Contemporary Art
Ra Joy, Illinois Arts Alliance
Eileen LaCario, Broadway in Chicago
Josephine Lee, Chicago Children's Choir
Phillip Thomas, ETA Creative Arts Foundation
Angel Ysaguirre, Boeing

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