Resources

District 9

• Therese Boyle, Former Teacher and school psychologist at CPS and former candidate for CTU president. https://thereseboyle.org/

• Miquel Lewis, acting director of Cook County Juvenile Probation & Court Services and former appointed member of Chicago Board of Education, current member of Special Education Advisory Committee. https://www.miquellewisforeducation.com/

• Lanetta M. Thomas, Former director of public relations, digital media producer, community organizer and current assistant to promotions, marketing and external relations director at Governor’s State University (CTU endorsed) https://www.ourschoolschicago.com/meet-lanetta

• La’Mont R. Williams – Former mentorship program coordinator, associate attorney and current chief of staff and general counsel to Cook County Commissioner Bill Lowry. https://lamontraymondwilliams.wordpress.com/

District 10

• Robert Jones, a pastor at Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church and a Dyett hunger striker. A Harvard alum, Jones has worked in religious institutions since 1978. He is a member of community organizations such as the Lugenia Burns Hope Center, Black Lives Building Together and Chicago Health Equity Coalition. https://www.revrobertjones.info/

• Karin Norington-Reaves, a CPS parent and consultant, former candidate in Illinois’s 1st congressional district. Raised in Chicago, Norington-Reaves has worked as an elementary school teacher, attorney, English as a Second Language instructor and adjunct law professor. She has held positions with the U.S. Department of Justice, the Maryland Office of the Attorney General and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. In her most recent role with the workforce partnership, she oversaw agency efforts to connect job seekers with companies. In the 2022 primary election to replace longtime Rep. Bobby Rush (IL-1), she captured 14% of the vote. https://karinforkids.com/

• Adam Parrott-Sheffer, a CPS parent, adjunct lecturer at Harvard, author, former principal in CPS and the Chicago suburbs, former district administrator in New York City. An alum of the University of Illinois, University of Pennsylvania and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Parrott-Sheffer previously served as principal at Mary Gage Peterson Elementary, a public school on the city’s North Side. As an education consultant, he provides principals around CPS with leadership coaching.  https://adam4chi.com/

• Che “Rhymefest” Smith, a Grammy-award winning songwriter, rapper and community activist. Born and raised in Chatham, Smith is best known for his collaborations with Kanye West and John Legend. Outside of the recording industry, he has taught creative writing as a Dartmouth Montgomery Fellow and led seminars on race, culture and music last fall at the University of Chicago as a Pritzker/Axelrod Fellow. In 2011, he founded the community group Art of Culture, an offshoot of the organization Donda’s House. That year, Smith was also an aldermanic candidate for the 20th Ward but came up short against Willie Cochran, capturing 45.4% of the vote. https://rhymefestforcps.com/

• Rosita Chatonda is a former CPS teacher and Chicago Teachers Union organizer, and is the founder of several education advocacy groups. An alum of Roosevelt University, Concordia College and Newburgh Theological Seminary, Chatonda was a math and science teacher in South Side public schools for 25 years. She founded the Chicago Alliance of Urban School Educators, a community group for CPS parents and employees, in 2010, and Teach For the Future Inc., a student and teacher advocacy group, in 2020