5TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Our 5th Anniversary event brought together old friends and new, celebrating achievements and looking to the future. Music, poetry, a conversation about justice reform, and unveiling of an original print of Claudia Rankine highlighted the beautiful September evening. Join this 5th Anniversary with your gift to Reading Between the Lines.
W. Kendric Berry, Board Chair, Reading Between the Lines, Mr. & Mrs. Kimball & Karen Anderson, event Co-Chairs and Guest Speaker Jarrett Adams, Author and Activist for Justice Reform
Mackenzie Phillips, Board of Directors, Vice Chair, Joan Shapiro, Founder & Executive Director with Mr. Robert Manuel, new President of DePaul University
Reading Between the Lines volunteer facilitators
Photo credit: Stockenstrom Photography
Thank You to All of Our Sponsors
JUSTICE SEEKER
Kimball & Karen Anderson
Joan & Jim Shapiro
REFORMER
Good Heart Work Smart
Judy & Bill Greffin
ADVOCATE
Innovation 80
Weinberg/Newton Foundation
Winston & Strawn, LLP
Wintrust Financial Corporation
CHAMPION
Judith Barnard & Michael Fain
Deborah & David Epstein
Linda & Robert Finkel
Patricia Kenney & Gregory O’Leary
Earl & Brenda Shapiro Foundation
Esther Mosak, Grants Manager, W. Ken Berry, Board Chair, Board Member Marquis Miller & Wife Pamela Buchanan Miller
Friends and Board members of Reading Between the Lines
Shelly Herman, winner of Tom Bachtell’s portrait of Claudia Rankine, with Joan Shapiro
READ OUR 5th ANNIVERSARY REPORT! CLICK HERE
Wintrust Guests
Deonte Baker, SInger
Nicole Bond, Reading an excerpt from Claudia Rankine poem from Citizen, VI, On the train the woman standing.
