Please join BPI for our Annual Dinner featuring a lively discussion with
Scott Budnick, Founder and President of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, as he speaks with celebrated author Alex Kotlowitz about his journey from successful Hollywood producer to noted juvenile justice activist.

BPI Annual Dinner
Thursday, May 7

Reception 5:30 | Dinner 6:30

Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park
Champions of the Public Interest

Chancellor Cheryl L. Hyman

 

Cheryl Hyman is the Chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) where she is leading Reinvention, a bold initiative designed to ensure that all CCC students successfully graduate prepared for further college and careers. Under Chancellor Hyman's leadership, City Colleges' graduation rate has nearly doubled, and overall credit enrollment has increased by more than 15 percent.

 

 

 

Elena Quintana, Ph.D.

 

As Executive Director of the Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice at Adler University, Dr. Elena Quintana's efforts focus on research and programming that aim to reclaim human potential and promote socially just solutions to public safety concerns. A clinical and community psychologist, she was recently appointed by Gov. Rauner to serve on the Commission on Criminal Justice and Sentencing Reform.

BPI is a public interest law and policy center that for 46 years has worked to create a more just society.


BPI strives to resolve compelling issues of social justice and quality of life in the Chicago region by addressing the challenges of urban poverty, increasing housing and educational opportunity, building vital communities, and improving the Illinois juvenile justice system.

 

BPI is a recipient of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions