Illinois Leadership Team for the NGA Policy Academy on the Civic Engagement of Older Adults

Team Leader: Charles D. Johnson, director, Illinois Department on Aging

Project Director: Jane Angelis, director, Intergenerational Initiative, SIU Carbondale

Cory Foster, director, Community Affairs, Office of the Governor

Bob Gallo, state director, AARP

Marilyn Hennessy, retiree and trustee, Retirement Research Foundation

John Hosteny, Illinois director, Corporation for National and Community Service

Peggy Luce, vice president, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

Edward Maloney, chair, Senate Higher Education Committee

Robert Mees, president, IL Com. Col. Council of  Presidents & president, John A. Logan College

Michael O’Donnell, exec. director, East Central IL Area Agency on Aging & chair, IL Assoc. of AAA

John Sirek, director, Citizenship, McCormick Foundation

Bernarda Wong, president, Chinese American Service League