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Kareem Dale
Kareem Dale
Current Term
2017-2023
Appointed By Governor
2019
Professional Experience
Director and senior counsel, Discover Financial Services
Special assistant to the president for disability policy and associate director of the Office of Public Engagement, Obama White House
National disability director, Obama-Biden Transition and Obama for America
Managing partner and founder, Dale Law Group
Litigation attorney, Winston & Strawn LLP
Professional/Civic Affiliations, Activities and Community Service
Member, executive committee of board of directors, Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership
Past member, Chicago Mayor's Steering Committee, Americans with Disabilities Act 25th anniversary
Past member, board of directors, Access Living in Chicago
Past president, board of directors, Black Ensemble Theater, Chicago
Past member, executive committee, Association of Corporate Counsel Financial Services Network
Awards and Honors
Leadership Greater Chicago fellow (2017)
Probono Commitment to Legal Service Award
Who's Who, Black in Chicago (2006)
30 Leaders of the Future Under 30,
Ebony
(2001)
Education
JD/MBA (cum laude), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1999)
BS, Advertising, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995)
Party Affiliation
Democrat
In this Section
Meet the Trustees
Ramón Cepeda
Kareem Dale
Donald J. Edwards
Ricardo Estrada
Patricia Brown Holmes
Naomi D. Jakobsson
Stuart C. King
Edward L. McMillan
Jill B. Smart
Ali Mirza
Jocelyn Bravo
Austin Verthein
Governor J. B. Pritzker