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Advisory Council

The Community Renewal Society Advisory Board consists of individuals from law, banking, education and business. Members advise Community Renewal on strategic directions and assist in relationship building for the organization.

Natalia Delgado
Natalia is Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Huron Consulting Group. For more than 24 years, she has represented underwriters and credit enhancers in municipal finance transactions and participated as underwriters' counsel in numerous issues of industrial revenue bonds, housing bonds, and bond issues for not-for-profits. Delgado frequently lectures on securities law developments and currently serves on the board of the National Women's Law Center. She is also a member of the Committee of Visitors of the University of Michigan Law School.

Michele Goodwin
Michele Goodwin is the Wicklander Chair in Ethics (2004-2006) and a professor of law at DePaul College of Law. In 2005, she received the Excellence in Scholarship Award and in 2006 received the prestigious Humanities Award and earned the Faculty Achievement Award from DePaul University. She has also been named Woman of the Year by the Urban League, and Pioneering Woman by the Historical Society of Chicago. Professor Michele Goodwin's latest book, "Black Markets: The Supply & Demand of Body Parts," a disturbing examination of yet another failure of the American health care system: an organ donation process that leads to the sale of human organs, has been critically acclaimed by critics including Publisher's Weekly.

Frances R. Grossman
Frances R. Grossman is Executive Vice President of Shorebank Corporation, the nation's first and largest community development banking company with $1.4 billion in assets and profit and nonprofit subsidiaries in Chicago, Cleveland, Washington state and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. She also works with the National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders, Community Renewal Society, and the City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development. In 1988, the city of Chicago changed the name of 52nd and Harper Avenue to "Franny's Place" in recognition of her work in the community.

Fidel Lopez
Mr. Lopez is President of Broadacre Consulting Company and Principal of Broadacre Management Company. He attended the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts and graduated the University of Illinois at Urbana with a Bachelor of Architecture degree. He was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Mr. Lopez also earned an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago where he was a Rockefeller Fellow in Finance. Prior to joining Broadacre in 1986, he served as founder and principal of the architectural and planning firm, Dearborn Associates of Chicago and later served as Vice President and Director of the Area Development Division at Continental Illinois National Bank (now Nations Bank). Mr. Lopez is a registered architect and was project manager for the construction of Broadacre's 61-story North Pier Apartment Tower and Partner in Charge of the Ivy Court Townhouse Development.

Quintin E. Primo III
Quintin Primo is co-founder of Capri and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capri Capital Advisors. Mr. Primo created the Real Estate Executive Council (REEC), the leading non-profit professional trade association formed to promote the interest of minority executives doing business in the commercial real estate industry. In addition, he is a board member of the Pension Real Estate Association, Urban Land Institute, and other professional organizations. He also serves as a trustee of the Church Pension Group, a $6 billion plan sponsor. Mr. Primo is active in community and civic affairs. Notably, he serves as Chairman of Primo Center for Women and Children, a first-stage transitional shelter serving the homeless of Chicago.

Barry Sullivan
Barry Sullivan is a partner in Jenner & Block's Chicago office and is a member of the Firm's Litigation Department. In addition to private practice, he has worked in the government and has been involved in university teaching and administration. Mr. Sullivan's professional publications, primarily in the areas of administrative and constitutional law, employment law, appellate practice and the legal profession, have appeared in the Yale Law Journal, and the University of Chicago Law Review, among others. Mr. Sullivan has long been active in professional and community service organizations including the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies of the University of Chicago, the International Human Rights Institute of DePaul University, and of the National Advisory Board of the Center for Religion.

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