Annual Event: October 30, 2024
5:00pm-8:00pm
Beverages and appetizers start at 5:00pm; program starts at 6:00pm
University Club of Chicago, 76 E Monroe St, Chicago, IL 60603
Buy tickets today! Individual Tickets are $100 each; student discounted tickets are $50.
Can’t make it? Please sponsor the attendance of a system-impacted person. This is a powerful way to stand in solidarity with those whose lives have been directly affected by the criminal legal system.
Keynote speaker: Arne Duncan
JHA is thrilled to welcome Arne Duncan to our event. Duncan served as U.S. Secretary of Education from January 2009 through December 2015 as part of the Obama Administration. Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Duncan served as chief executive officer of Chicago Public Schools. From 2001 to 2008, Duncan won praise for uniting the city’s stakeholders behind an education agenda that included opening 100 new schools; expanding after-school, summer learning, early childhood, and college access programs; dramatically boosting the caliber of teachers; and building public-private partnerships around a variety of education initiatives.
He currently leads Chicago CRED, a nonprofit trying to achieve a transformative reduction in gun violence in Chicago. Through partnerships with local business leaders, community organizers, and nonprofit groups, Duncan aims to provide outreach, therapeutic, education, and employment opportunities for the young men most likely to be engaged in gun violence. He is also the managing partner at Emerson Collective, an organization dedicated to removing barriers so people can live to their full potential. Secretary Duncan graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1987, majoring in sociology. At Harvard he served as co-captain of the basketball team and was named a first team Academic All-American.
Arne is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, and serves on the boards of Ariel Investments, Communities in Schools, Eat, Learn, Play, Edmentum, Education Advancement, ESS, Howard University, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, National Association of Basketball Coaches, RingCentral and Schoolhouse.world.
Our 2024 Annual Award Winners
Stay tuned for our announcement of our winners!
We thank our generous event sponsors
Presenting Sponsorhip:
Warrior Sponsorship: Paul & Sarah Jane Titterton and GATX
Protector Sponsorship: Ariel Investments, Terry & Annette Faulk; Amanda Penabad & Stephen Brokaw; Anne & Bob Sullivan; Pat Unsinn
Torchbearer Sponsorship: Rick Artwick; Chicago Community Trust; John & Bozena McLees; Sidley Austin LLP; Dick Sullivan