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                                                                               Photo by Jerlyn Maloy

Founder and CEO
Tony Burroughs, FUGA – Professional Genealogist and author of Black Roots: A Beginners Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree.

Chairman

Lewis Nixon - Supervising Judge, Chancery Division, Cook County Circuit Court

Secretary
Cristal R. Simmons – Epidemiologist and former president, Afro-American Genealogical & Historical Society of Chicago, Inc.

Treasurer

Lawrence L Wilson, CPA – Comptroller at Cook County, Illinois

Past Chairman
Ralph G. Moore, CPA – Founder & President of RGMA

Board Members

Kathleen Bethel – African American Studies Librarian, Northwestern University

Dr. Iva E. Carruthers – President of Kwame Nkrumah Academy Board of Trustees; Secretary General of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference; Professor Emeritus and former Chairperson of the Sociology Department, Northeastern Illinois University

Sharon D. Vaughn - Vice President of Concord Family Services, Inc


Technical Assistants
Denise D. Eligan - Bureau Chief, Illinois Department of Human Services

Attorney Rick L. Hammond – Partner, Johnson and Bell

Volunteer Coordinator

Angela McGhee - former president, Afro-American Genealogical & Historical Society of Chicago, Inc.




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