Lane Alexander
Founder & Director
Lane Alexander
Founder & Director
Elaine Cohen Rubin & Richard G. Weinberg
Honorary Founders
Kelly Michaels (1957 – 1995)
Founding Artistic Director
Kwaku Osebreh (2018)
Board Chair
Attorney, Mayer Brown LLP
Brenna Conway (2018)
Vice Chair
Director of City Scholars, University of Illinois
Claudette Smith (2010)
Vice-Chair
Vice President (Data Management, Operations, & Technology), Northern Trust
John Gingell (2016)
Treasurer President at Gingell Consulting
Lane Alexander (1988)
Founder & Director
Chicago Human Rhythm Project
Michael Foster (2010)
Past Chair
Senior Sales Manager, The Whitehall Hotel
Irene Michaels (2016)
Founder, I On The Scene
Emmanuel Neal (2020)
Business Development Consultant
Joyce Selander (2017)
Retired, Commodities Broker
Chicago Board of Trade
Z. J. Tong (2011)
President, ChinaPro Marketing Partners
Constance Vervalcke (2020)
Manager SAP Security & GRC at PwC
Your Name Could Be Here (2020)
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Terrence Coakley
Gail Kalver
Marilyn Miglin
Lou Conte
Marilyn Katz
Peggy Sutton
Diana E. Harris
Bill Kurtis
Dianne “Lady Di” Walker
Bill Irwin
Donna LaPietra
Lane Alexander
Founder & Director
lalexander@chicagotap.org
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Emmanuel Neal
Interim Managing Director
eneal@chicagotap.org
Kate Hanley
Program Associate, American Rhythm Center (ARC)
khanley@arcchicago.org
Caleigh Stephens
Program Associate, American Rhythm Center (ARC)
cstephens@arcchicago.org
Canisha Russ
Program Associate, Outreach and Arts Education
canisharuss@chicagotap.org
James Mueller
Program Associate, American Rhythm Center
jmueller@arcchicago.org
Meggy Huynh
Program Associate, Development and Marketing
mhuynh@chicagotap.org
Margaret Nelson
Production Stage Manager
Jill Villanueva & Yvonne Afable
Business and Financial Management
Christopher W. Frerichs
Grant Management
Fredric Brewer
Marketing and Graphic Design
Catherine Painter
Patron and Database Management