Board of Directors

The MoveSmart.org Board of Directors has eight current members:


Former board members include Janet Smith of UIC/Voorhees Center (founding through 2008).


Biographies:

Rob Breymaier
Rob Breymaier is the Executive Director of the Oak Park Regional Housing Center, a national model for the affirmative furthering of fair housing. Rob began with the fair housing movement in 1996 as an intern at the Toledo Fair Housing Center. He has coordinated hundreds of discrimination tests in Toledo, Chicago, and Albuquerque. He has trained over 1,000 housing industry professionals on their fair housing rights and responsibilities. He has also conducted research and promoted public policy at the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities. Rob was a test coordinator for HUD’s Housing Discrimination Survey in both Phase I and Phase III. He has also chaired the Housing Task Force of the Chicago CRA Coalition. Rob has also written advocacy guides, an organizing manual, and research papers and articles on fair housing, affordable housing, and civic participation. Rob recently served as the President of the Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance and currently sits on the Steering Committee of the Chicago CRA Coalition. He has a Master’s degree in Geography and Planning from the University of Toledo. Rob is a co-founder of MoveSmart.org.

Hector Gamboa
Hector Gamboa is the Program Development Manager for the Spanish Coalition for Housing. He has been working with Spanish Coalition for Housing for the last 12 years. Mr. Gamboa is responsible for the overall writing and preparation of grant proposals for the SCH programs. Mr. Gamboa has a long history of community service, over 30 years of working for organizations and social service agencies throughout the City of Chicago as well as the surrounding suburbs of Cicero, Berwyn, etc. He has served on the board of directors for organizations like Casa Aztlan, Metropolitan Tenants Organization, Designs for Change and MoveSmart.org. The variety of experiences and areas of concerns that Mr. Gamboa has participated and contributed to has provided him with a broad and far reaching awareness, appreciation and sensitivity so as to allow for deeper understanding of social concerns and strategic solutions, most recently expanding capacity to service the growing demand from clients throughout the City of Chicago.

Maria Krysan
Maria Krysan (Ph.D., University of Michigan 1995) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and is a faculty member at its Institute of Government and Public Affairs. Her research focuses on racial residential segregation, racial attitudes, and survey research methodology. She is a founding director of UIC’s Chicago Area Study, which each year collects social science data to address issues relevant to race/ethnicity in the urban context, often with a focus on issues related to housing and housing policy. Recent policy-relevant publications focusing on issues of residential segregation include Racial Blind Spots: A Barrier to Integrated Communities in Chicago (http://www.igpa.uillinois.edu/system/files/CriticalIssues07-2008Krysan.pdf) and Racial Residential Segregation in Metropolitan Chicago (http://www.igpa.uillinois.edu/system/files/PF20-3.pdf). Krysan is also co-author (with H. Schuman, L. Bobo and C. Steeh) of the book Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (Harvard University Press, Revised Edition, 1997), and is responsible for a website that updates the data from that book (http://www.igpa.uillinois.edu/programs/racialattitudes). She is currently Vice President of the Oak Park Regional Housing Center.

Jenny Lizak
Jennifer Lizak is director of publicity for Metro and Smart Bar, Chicago’s oldest independently owned and operated music venue and nightclub.  She also serves as Vice President and legislative coordinator for the Chicago Independent Radio Project, a non-profit organization seeking to bring a new low power FM community radio station to Chicago.  In her spare time, she is a freelance writer (UR Chicago, Venus) and blogger (wowmusicchicago.com), and volunteers with the American Cancer Society and Rock For Kids. She holds a B.A. in Communication and Theatre from Loyola University Chicago.

Clyde Murphy
Clyde E. Murphy is the Executive Director of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. Prior to taking that position in January of 1995, Mr. Murphy was associated with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., for 19 years, where he developed an extensive federal civil rights practice including trial, appellate, and U.S. Supreme Court litigation in the areas of employment discrimination, affirmative action, police misconduct and voting rights. In 1990, Mr. Murphy became Deputy Director-Counsel of the Legal Defense Fund, and from 1993 until 1995, he served as Director of the Fund's Voting Rights Project. Mr. Murphy's background in civil rights litigation and non-profit administration is complemented by his extensive experience as a lecturer on litigation for social change and legal analysis of civil rights issues. He is a graduate of Yale University, and received his law degree from Columbia University School of Law in New York City.

Jennifer O'NeilJennifer Lee O’Neil is a Director with Quadel Consulting Corporation. She has oversight responsibilities for Quadel projects in Chicago and Baltimore. Based in Chicago, she has been with Quadel since December 1995 when she joined CHAC, the Quadel subsidiary that administers the Chicago Housing Choice Voucher Program. Chicago's program is the third largest in the country, serving more than 35,000 households. As Deputy Director of that program for more than 12 years, Ms. O'Neil was responsible for new admissions, subsequent participant moves, and special programs including Family Self Sufficiency, Family Unification, mobility counseling, special de-concentration initiatives, homeownership, and services for people with disabilities. From 1992 until her move to Chicago, Ms. O’Neil was the Director of Rental Assistance for the Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership (MBHP), where she was responsible for a 30 million-dollar rental assistance program in 33 cities and towns in the metropolitan Boston area. Prior to MBHP Ms. O'Neil spent 22 years in real estate development and management in the New England region. She is a 1970 graduate of Indiana University and earned her Certified Property Manager designation through the Institute of Real Estate Management in 1986. Ms. O’Neil is a contributor to the recent Urban Institute publication, “Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation”. She is Treasurer of the National Leased Housing Association.

Jay Readey
Jay Readey is a lawyer, consultant and social entrepreneur who specializes in supporting collaborations that strengthen community life.  Mr. Readey practices community development finance law, specializing in representation of developers and Community Development Entities in New Markets Tax Credit transactions, and serves as a consultant with MetroAlliance Consulting, Inc. to a number of community building processes in Chicago’s South Suburbs.  Mr. Readey is a senior associate with Illinois ResourceNet, a program of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Great Cities Institute.  In that capacity he works with municipalities and nonprofit organizations to bring more Federal funding to the South Suburbs.  Through that work, he became involved with the Healthcare Consortium of Illinois and its leadership work engaging community stakeholders around the use of electronic medical records and development of Health Information Exchange.  Mr. Readey is an adjunct professor of community development law at DePaul Law School and the lead consultant to the Southland Human Services Leadership Council, a collaboration of health and human services institutions working to deliver more effective services.  Mr. Readey is the founder and board president of NeighborScapes, a youth enrichment and workforce development nonprofit, and serves on the boards of several other civic organizations.  Mr. Readey received his BA with honors and distinction in both African-American Studies and American Studies from Yale College, his MBA from the Yale School of Management, and his JD from the Yale Law School.   

Madeline Troche-Rodriguez
Madeline Troche-Rodriguez teaches Sociology and Social Science courses at Harry S. Truman College. Her research focuses on racial and economic integration, the effects of gentrification, fair housing and the housing experience of Latino families in the suburbs. Prior to her appointment at Truman, she was the Community Education and Resources manager for Latinos United (now Latino Policy Forum), a multi-issue non-profit organization serving the Latino community in metropolitan Chicago. She has worked on fair housing since 1999 designing curricula in Spanish, facilitating workshops about fair housing rights and testing for discrimination in Chicagoland. She also worked as a part-time researcher on the Chicago Latino Congregations Study, sponsored by the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame; and as a research fellow for the Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) at Loyola University. Madeline serves on the Board of Directors of the Latin United Community Housing Association (LUCHA) and on the Advisory Board of Loyola University’s CURL. She earned a PhD in Sociology from Loyola University Chicago. Madeline is a co-founder of MoveSmart.org.

 

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