This Saturday, @10AM June 20th 2020, coming to a small screen near you…
Spring Community Business Academy Graduation
In the midst of an historic year, we are thrilled to announce to you our largest semester of CBA graduates to date (Six Cohorts!) and our first-ever, online Graduation Ceremony. On this page you will find:
Links to register and tune in live the day of
A guest book to sign
Program Information
Schedule. List of Graduates. Keynote Speaker Bio.
Register on the Eventbrite link below and Tune in via Facebook Live at 10AM on Saturday June twentieth!
Family members, Partners, Guests, Interested People
register here
Please Drop a Note of Congrats in the Guestbook
Program information
Program Schedule
Keynote speaker
Valerie B. Jarrett
Senior Distinguished Fellow, University of Chicago Law School. Senior advisor, The Obama Foundation
Board Chairperson, When We All Vote. Co-chair, The United State of Women. Board-member: Ariel Investments, 2U, Lyft, the Innocence Project, the Economic Club of Chicago and the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.
Valerie Jarrett was the longest serving Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama. She oversaw the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and Chaired the White House Council on Women and Girls. Her recent memoir (published 2019, updated 2020) Finding My Voice: When the Perfect Plan Crumbles, the Adventure Begins, quickly became a New York Times bestselling memoir.
Ms. Jarrett worked throughout her tenure at the White House to mobilize elected officials, business and community leaders, and diverse groups of advocates. She led the Obama Administration’s efforts to expand and strengthen access to the middle class, and boost American businesses and our economy. She championed the creation of equality and opportunity for all Americans, and economically and politically empowering women in the United States and around the world. She oversaw the Administration’s advocacy for workplace policies that empower working families, including equal pay, raising the minimum wage, paid leave, paid sick days, workplace flexibility, and affordable childcare, and led the campaigns to reform our criminal justice system, end sexual assault, and reduce gun violence.
Ms. Jarrett has served as the CEO of The Habitat Company in Chicago, Chairman of the Chicago Transit Board, Commissioner of Planning and Development, and Deputy Chief of Staff for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. She also served as the director of numerous corporate and not-for-profit boards including Chairman and CEO of the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chairman of the University of Chicago Medical Center Board of Trustees, and Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Jarrett received her B.A. from Stanford University in 1978 and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981.
Jarrett practiced law for ten years in both the private and public sectors, and has also received numerous awards and honorary degrees, including TIME’s “100 Most Influential People” as well as the Abner J. Mikva Legal Legends Award.