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A Virtual Experience Welcome From 9th Annual Make Room For Debate Today’s Debaters. Tomorrow’s Leaders. Tuesday, September 15, 2020 A Virtual Experience Welcome from Welcome to our 9th Annual Make Room for Debate luncheon. We are delighted you’ve virtually joined us to Support Student Success, to help Cultivate Future Leaders, and contribute to Building a Stronger Chicago. Our Champion of Debate, Wintrust Founder and CEO, Ed Wehmer is being honored today for his dedication, belief, and investment in youth and Chicago. Chicago Debates is bridging the opportunity gap for Chicago Public School (CPS) students by providing them with an after-school program that supports their academic, career, and leadership success. Competitive debate strengthens reading, teaches content knowledge and develops 21st century skills like research, analytical, and critical thinking. It also supports students’ social/emotional development. Debate is research proven to increase GPAs, graduation rates, college readiness and school engagement. Chicago Debates is celebrating 23 years of providing debate to students in partnership with Chicago Public Schools. Starting with just five schools and 35 students in 1997, our goal this year is to serve over 1700 students across 95 Chicago Public Schools. We support middle and high school students in CPS, with a focus on high poverty areas where the need is the greatest. Last year, 78% of our students attended a Title I School, meaning 50% or more of the students received free or reduced lunch. Today, you will experience just how impactful debate is as you hear directly from students whose lives have been transformed by the activity. Thank you to our event sponsors and to each of you for supporting Chicago Debates and investing in our future leaders. With Gratitude, David Nadig, Board Chair Dr. Toinette Gunn Allstate Insurance Company Chicago Debates Senior VP & Deputy General Counsel Executive Director 1 Program Participants Ed is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wintrust (Nasdaq: WTFC). Founded in 1991, Wintrust is a financial services holding company, based in Rose- mont, Illinois, and is currently the second largest bank group headquartered in the state. Through its family of community banks, and a number of related companies and divisions, the Company provides tradi- tional commercial and community banking services, wealth management guidance, commercial insurance premium financing, mortgage origination, short-term accounts receivable financing and certain admin- istrative services. Wintrust provides cus- tomer and community-oriented, personal Ed Wehmer, Founder & CEO and commercial banking solutions to those Wintrust Financial Corporation located in and around Chicago, southern Wisconsin and northwest Indiana. start Lake Forest Bank & Trust Company, the first Wintrust bank. Ed graduated from Georgetown University in 1976 and is a certified public accoun- Ed is a member and lead independent tant. director of the board of directors of Stepan Company (NYSE) in Northfield, IL. He also Ed’s primary career focus has been bank- serves as Chairman of the Board of North- ing, beginning at the accounting firm Ernst western Memorial Foundation at North- & Young, LLP, where he specialized in western Medicine, on the audit committee banking focused mainly on bank mergers of Northwestern Memorial Health Care, is and acquisitions for seven years. After a trustee for Lurie Children’s Hospital and leaving Ernst & Young, Ed was senior vice Foundation, and Vice Chair on the Board president and chief financial officer of River of the Finance Committee of the Archdi- Forest Bancorp, a $4 billion bank holding ocese of Chicago. Ed is also a director of company in Chicago, Illinois from 1985 to The Catholic Extension Society of America. 1991. While there, he was also president of the firm’s largest subsidiary, Lincoln Na- Ed and his wife, Dorothy, live in Lake Bluff, tional Bank, in Chicago. He left in 1991 to Illinois. 2 Program Participants Sherly is a bilingual, urban school leader with ten years of educational experience serving as an educator and administrator focused on equity and access at the class- room, school, and district level. Most recently, Sherly served as the Deputy Chief of the Office of Teaching and Learn- ing where she focused on advancing the district’s commitment to academic prog- ress through major initiatives such as the Curriculum Equity Initiative. Prior to her role as Deputy Chief, Sherly served as the principal for William P. Nixon Elementary School and spent her tenure building trust Dr. Sherly Chavarria throughout her school community while Chief of Teaching and Learning developing a shared instructional vision, strengthening community relations and activities, and improving the school’s operational functioning. As a principal, Sherly also was a member of multiple district leadership com- mittees, including the Principal Advisory Council, SQRP Steering Committee, Instructional Equity Working Group, and Leadership Framework Working Group. Sherly was a teacher at National Teachers Academy where she was recognized for her leadership with the Madeleine Maraldi Award for Teacher Leader Excellence. Sherly holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in psychology and cultural social anthropology, a master’s degree in teaching from National Louis University, and a doctorate in education from the University of Illinois at Chicago. 3 Program Participants Will has been organizing since 1999 and has been an organizer with The People’s Lobby and its predecessor organizations since 2008. Will’s accomplishments include organizing The People’s Lobby’s successful campaign to raise the minimum wage in a number of Cook County suburbs from $8.25 to $13 and leading a campaign of mass actions and civil disobedience that played a major role in the closure of $125 million in corporate tax loopholes in Illinois. Will grew up in Chicago and began organizing as a high school student in the Chicago Public Schools, where he started an organization of students across the state working for a more just education system, Will Tanzman, Executive Director successfully changing citywide standard- The Peoples Lobby Chicago Debates Alumnus ized testing policies and practices. Will also Whitney Young 2000 serves as Council President at First Luther- an Church of the Trinity in the Bridgeport community. To get in the mood for a direct action, Will is always up for Rage Against the Machine. 4 Program David Nadig, Introduction & Sponsor Allstate, Senior VP & Deputy General Counsel Acknowledgement Chicago Debates Board Chair Dimarvin Puerto Debate: More than an Activity Chicago Debates Alumnus Lane Tech College Prep Class of 2020 Chicago Debates Feature Video Mayor Lori Lightfoot City of Chicago Special Messages Dr. Janice Jackson CEO Chicago Public Schools Ed Wehmer Wintrust Founder & CEO Champion of Debate Honoree Fireside Chat: Supporting Student Success, Dr. Sherly Chavarria Chief of Teaching & Learning Cultivating Future Leaders, & Chicago Public Schools Building a Stronger Chicago Will Tanzman, Executive Director The Peoples Lobby Chicago Debates Alumnus, Whitney Young 2000 Resolved: Dailyn Davis & Catherine Smith Everyone Should Be Interested Chicago Debates Alumnae in Supporting Debate Lindblom Math & Science Academy Class of 2020 Dr. Toinette Gunn, Executive Director Champion of Debate Champion of Debate Honoree Award Presentation Ed Wehmer, Wintrust Founder & CEO Dr. Toinette Gunn Closing Remarks Executive Director 5 PLACE PLATINUM AD HERE Our differences make us stronger. Allstate is proud to sponsor Chicago Debates' Make Room for Debate 2020. © 2020 Allstate Insurance Co. 6 Make Room for Debate Champions of Debate 2019 Lisa Madigan Former Illinois Attorney General, Kirkland & Ellis 2018 Andrea Zopp CEO, World Business Chicago 2017 David Axelrod Director, University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics 2016 Terry Mazany President and CEO, Chicago Community Trust 2015 Beth Swanson Vice President of Strategy and Programs, Joyce Foundation 2014 Gery Chico Partner, Chico & Nunes 2013 Toni Preckwinkle President, Cook County Board 2012 Tom Wilson CEO, Allstate Insurance Company 7 iManage is Proud to Support Chicago Debates We applaud Chicago Debates for instilling Chicago youth with the critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills that are inspiring them to be thinkers, speakers, and leaders of tomorrow. 8 9 Participating Schools 2019/20 CHICAGO DEBATES MIDDLE SCHOOL CHICAGO RIVER CONFERENCE (11) LAKE MICHIGAN CONFERENCE (8) Agassiz Elementary School CICS Wrightwood Elementary School Beasley Academic Center Goethe Elementary School Boone Elementary School Hale Elementary School Brooks Academic Center Hedges Elementary School Frazier International Magnet School KIPP One Academy Kershaw Elementary School Owen Scholastic Academy Kilmer Elementary School Sadlowski Elementary School Lindblom Academic Center Wadsworth Elementary School Peirce School of International Studies Skinner North Classical School NAVY PIER CONFERENCE (8) STEM Magnet Academy Brighton Park Elementary School Columbia Explorers Academy GRANT PARK CONFERENCE (6) DePriest Elementary School Audubon Elementary School Haines Elementary School Bell Elementary School McCutcheon Elementary School Lincoln Elementary School Nash Elementary School South Loop Elementary School Salazar Elementary Bilingual Center Skinner West Elementary School West Park Academy of Fine Arts and O. A. Thorp Scholastic Academy Technology 2019/20 CHICAGO DEBATES HIGH SCHOOL BLUE CONFERENCE (6) North Lawndale
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