A Special Interview with Edith Falk

On March 1, 2015, Edith Falk (2000), Co-Founder of Campbell & Company, retired as Chair after nearly four decades of exemplary service to the nonprofit community. Edith is widely known throughout the nonprofit community as one of the preeminent thought leaders in this sector. She will continue serving as counsel for Campbell & Company engagements on a selected basis. To honor her legacy, Campbell & Company recently sat down with Edith, who reflected on her work over the past 38 years.  

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Marci Kaminsky (2000) has been named Cheif Communications Officer at Grant Thornton. Most recent she served as senior vice president, corporate relations at the Allstate Corporation. In her new role, Marci will lead the management of the firm's reputation and strategic communications, including external media relations, internal and executive communications and crisis and issues management.   

The Chicago Minority Supplier Development Council has named ComEd (Anne Pramaggiore (2008)) the "Corporation of the Year," honoring the company for its continued efforts to develop and expand relationships with local minority and women-owned businesses. This highly coveted award is presented in recognition of a company's leadership and outstanding accomplishments in the area of business diversity. In 2014, ComEd spent $415 million with diverse suppliers, a $100 million increase over 2013. As part of the Smart Grid Law, ComEd also committed to increasing opportunities for diversity certified suppliers by 15 percent over a 10 year period, representing millions in additional diversity certified spending every year.

Starting April 15th, CASL (Bernarda Wong (1995)) will be offering Beginners Mandarin Chinese classes! This unique program is for beginner's level instruction, aimed at providing students with the foundations of Mandarin Chinese. Yu Chen, the instructor is originally from Shanghai, China, is an internationally certified Senior Chinese Language Teacher with many years of experience.

To take advantage of CASL's Chinatown location, part of the program will include excursion trips to local establishments in Chinatown.  As part of tuition, all students will have the opportunity to participate in two "Chinese Table" outings. This will be an opportunity for students, classmates, and the teacher to share a meal together at a local Chinatown restaurant to practice your new Chinese in an informal setting, try traditional Chinese cuisine, and learn Chinese restaurant and eating customs.  As a class, students will also get to experience traditional Chinese medicine, with an excursion trip to a local medicine shop to learn about this ancient tradition.