Sponsors

• The Boeing Company
• Motorola Foundation

Media Sponsors

• Chicago Public Radio
• Illinois Channel

Partners

• Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society
• American Medical Association
• Center for Bioethics, Science and Society at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
• Center for Genetic Medicine
• Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago
• Center on Halsted
• Chicago Center for Jewish Genetic Disorders
• Chicago History Museum
• Chicago's Green City Market
• Columbia College Film Row Cinema
• Columbia College Chicago Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media
• Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Dickson Mounds State Museum
• The Duncan YMCA Chernin Center for the Arts
• DuSable Museum of African American History
• The Field Museum
• Free Street Theatre
• Galesburg Public Library
• The HistoryMakers
• Illinois Institute of Technology
• Kartemquin Films
• Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences
• Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
• The Michael Reese Health Trust
• Millikin University
• Museum of Contemporary Art
• National Society of Genetic Counselors
• The Newberry Library
• The Notebaert Nature Museum
• Slow Food Chicago
• Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
• Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
• Zeta Phi Beta Sorority

Steering Committee

• Lori Andrews, Distinguished Professor of Law; Director of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology; and Associate Vice President, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
• Dr. Matti Bunzl, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Frank Cizon, President, NZT, Inc.
• Phillip Davis, Deputy Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Medical Humanities, School of Medicine, Southern Illinois University at Springfield
• Dorothy H. Gardner, President, Michael Reese Health Trust
• The Honorable Joan B. Gottschall, U.S. District Court Judge, Northern District of Illinois
• Dr. Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Professor, History Department, Dominican University
• Faith Lagay, Director, Ethics Resource Center, American Medical Association
• Karen Litwack, Director, Chicago Center for Jewish Genetic Disorders
• Tracye Matthews, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago
• David T. Mitchell, Associate Professor, Department of Disability and Human Development, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Disability Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Constance L. Mortell, President, Prairie Tides Productions, LLC
• Elizabeth Quinlan, Librarian, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• Joanna Rudnick, Director of Development, Producer, Kartemquin Films
• Mark Sheldon, Assistant Dean, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; College Lecturer in Philosophy; and in the Medical Ethics and Humanities Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
• Jennifer Amdur Spitz, President, Amdur Spitz & Associates, Inc.
• Peter Taub, Director of Performance Programs, Museum of Contemporary Art
• Laurie Zoloth, Ph.D., Director, Center for Bioethics, Science and Society, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine

Central Illinois Planning Committee

• Dr. Kim Bauer, Director of Lincoln Heritage Project, City of Decatur
• Dr. Jamie Comstock, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Millikin University
• Cecilia Stiles Cornell, Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Springfield
• Jennifer Danzinger, Webmaster
• Anne Marie Fuhrig, Ph.D., Principal Educational Consultant, Illinois State Board of Education, ret.
• Laurie Hughes, Assistant Professor of English, Richland Community College
• David Joens, Coordinator, State Historical Records Advisory Board, Illinois State Archives
• Robert Kunath, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, Illinois College
• Dr. Jean I. Ladendorf, Professor of English and Humanities, Lincoln Land Community College
• Nancy McKinney, Springfield Director, The Odyssey Project
• Mark Sorensen, Assistant Director, Illinois State Archives
• Jamie Wilson, Readers? Services Manager, Lincoln Library

Southern Illinois Planning Committee

• Vicki Devenport, Educational Services and Field Representative, WSIU Public Broadcasting
• John Haller, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
  David King, Professor of Anatomy, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
• David Lightfoot, Professor of Plant, Soil, and Agricultural Systems, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
• Patsy Manfredi, Professor of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
• Jo Nast, Research Project Specialist, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
• Kay Rippelmeyer-Tippy, Program Liaison, Illinois Humanities Council
• Kenneth Stikkers, Professor of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Western Illinois Planning Committee

• Erskine Carter, Professor of English, Black Hawk College
• Kristin Douglas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biology Department, Augustana College
• Galen Leonhardy, Professor, Black Hawk College
• Julie Lerczak, Public Programs Coordinator, Dickson Mounds Museum
• Ann W. Schmitt, Associate Director of Education, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences
• Pam Van Kirk, Library Director, Galesburg Public Library
• Michael D. Wiant, Ph.D., Director, Dickson Mounds Museum

PANELISTS

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