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PROPOSED REAPPOINTMENT
Appointee(s): Emily Harris, Laurel Ross, and Mark N. Templeton
Position: Council Members
Department/Board/Commission: Conservation and Policy Council
Effective date: 1/1/2021
Expiration date: 12/31/2023
Summary: The Conservation and Policy Council advises the President, Board of Commissioners and General Superintendent and develops and annually updates a strategic plan to operationalize the Next Century Conservation Plan, as well as reviewing and making recommendations for the annual budget, conservation policies and practices and long-term strategic issues.
Emily Harris, Principal, Harris Strategies. As Principal of Harris Strategies, LLC, Emily Harris helps organizations bring big ideas to action. Emily leads strategic plans and designs programs to bring hundreds of partners together around common goals. Her work to make the Chicago region a better place has included initiatives on economic growth, open space conservation, historic preservation, leadership development, disability rights, and early childhood education. She has a passion for urban living, social justice and conservation, and is deeply committed to setting collective agendas and getting things done. She created and launched ADA 25 Advancing Leadership--the nation's only independent non-profit focused on civic leadership by people with disabilities. She led the Burnham Plan Centennial focused on metropolitan Chicago's future. She led development of the Next Century Conservation Plan for the Forest Preserves of Cook County and assisted with the development of the World Business Chicago Plan for Economic Growth and Jobs and Cook County Partnering for Prosperity plan. Emily serves on the Boards of Directors of Access Living and the Leadership Fellows Association of Leadership Greater Chicago, and is a member of the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation Strategic Planning Committee.
Laurel Ross, Former Director of Urban Conservation, Field Museum, ...
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