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25-0104
| 1 | | | Committee Minutes | COMMITTEE MINUTES
Approval of the minutes from the meeting of 1/14/2025 | | |
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25-0016
| 1 | | | Appointment | PROPOSED APPOINTMENT
Appointee(s): Alaka Wali
Position: Member
Department/Board/Commission: Conservation and Policy Council
Effective Date: Immediate
Expiration Date: 12/31/2027
Alaka Wali is curator emerita of North American Anthropology in the Science and Education Division of the Field Museum. Alaka was born in India and came to the United States as a child. Curious about issues of cultural identity, she studied anthropology at Harvard and Columbia, focusing on the challenges facing Indigenous peoples and their efforts to maintain cultural practices and worldviews.
She was the founding director of the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change at The Field Museum from 1995- 2010. During that time, she pioneered the development of participatory social science research and community engagement processes based in museum science. She curated the North American collection, one of the Museum's largest regional anthropology holdings. Since 2000, she has worked closely with ecologists and museum educators to develop innovative community engagement strategies for people | | |
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25-0003
| 1 | | | Reappointment | PROPOSED REAPPOINTMENT
Appointee(s): Jacqui Ulrich, Director, Department of Conservation & Experiential Programming
Position: Member of the Board
Department/Board/Commission: NeighborSpace Board of Directors
Effective Date: 1/15/2025
Expiration Date: Two (2) year term expiring 12/31/2026
Summary: The Forest Preserves of Cook County (the “Forest Preserves”) requests approval of the reappointment of Jacqui Ulrich, Director of the Conservation and Experiential Programming Department (“CEP”) to the Board of Directors of NeighborSpace, an affiliate partner of the Forest Preserves.
NeighborSpace is a nonprofit urban land trust in Chicago that preserves and sustains gardens on behalf of dedicated community groups. NeighborSpace owns and manages property so that community groups can focus on gardening. NeighborSpace-protected gardens give young and old alike an opportunity to get their hands in the earth and enjoy nature, right in their own neighborhoods.
CEP connects diverse audiences to nature through a wide range of educational and outdoor recreation experiences and is also r | | |
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