BPI is pleased to welcome Artishia Hunter to our staff as Senior Education Associate. Prior to joining BPI, Artishia was Director of the Evanston Community Foundation’s Two Generation Initiative—a three-way partnership among ECF, Ascend at the Aspen Institute, and Northwestern University…
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BPI is pleased to welcome Lindsey LaPointe to our staff as Senior Project Manager, Justice Reform. Prior to joining BPI in August 2017, Lindsey served as Program Manager for Adult Redeploy Illinois, which provides funding and technical assistance to Illinois…
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Join BPI in welcoming our three newest directors: Adam Chiss, Tony Iweagwu, and Jodi Wilson. Adam Chiss Division Counsel Abbvie Adam handles intellectual property litigation matters in the U.S. and around the world. Before joining Abbott Laboratories (AbbVie’s predecessor) in 2009,…
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The Chicago Housing Authority’s prisoner reentry pilot program, which allows some prisoners to live in CHA housing upon their release, was the recent subject of a thoughtful article in AtlanticMedia’s Citylab. The author is BPI’s Maddy Hamlin, our newest Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellow,…
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BPI is pleased to welcome Madeleine Hamlin as our newest Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellow. Her policy work here will involve both our justice reform and housing initiatives. Maddy recently graduated from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with dual…
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The growing challenges to social justice that our city, state and country face do not go unchallenged by BPI and our friends and partners who care about justice and opportunity and, most importantly, the people who are denied them. Our…
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BPI is saddened by the recent passing of long-time director Sheldon Baskin, who served BPI as a devoted board member for more than 25 years. Sheldon’s expertise in affordable housing and lifelong commitment to social justice made an indelible impact…
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Our 2017 Annual Dinner featured an engaging discussion among a diverse panel of experts on what it will take to achieve meaningful police reform in Chicago. Thanks to Steve Edwards, Executive Director of the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics,…
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The Altgeld-Riverdale Pre-K to Kindergarten Transitions Program held a year-end celebration last week, with hundreds of students, their family members and teachers coming out for activities, games, and delicious food at the Carver Park fieldhouse. The Transitions Program, which BPI launched in…
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Three fabulous interns joined our office at the end of May, and a fourth will arrive soon! Law school students Anna Jirschele, Jared Jones and Michael Walker arrived just in time to pitch in with all the last-minute tasks that helped…
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