Staff + Boards

Who are we? Designers and makers and accountants and innovators and educators and business leaders and artists and investors and students and lawyers and the list goes on… 

Our staff is small but mighty. Team members include:

Tanner Woodford, Founder & Strategic Advisor
Kevin Reader, Interim Executive Director
Olivia Kosciusko Tritschler, Development Manager
Haoyu Lu, Project Manager

The Design Museum is governed by the Board of Directors and supported by a growing Auxiliary Board.

Board of Directors

Chair: Wendy Manning, Demeter Strategy Design
Vice Chair: Rana Komar, RUTH
Ex-Officio Chair: Bill Beach, SECRIST | BEACH
Secretary: Andrea Kramer, ASKramer Law
Treasurer: Ruth Goran, Ruth Goran CPA

Charles Adler, Kickstarter & Center for Lost Arts
Helyn Goldenberg, Sotheby’s
Sarah Haque, Recon Analytics
Scott Hurst, Gensler
Younsoo Kim Flynn, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Ashley Lukasik, Murmur Ring
Rob McKay, Connect Gallery & The Silver Room
Karen Lilly Mozer, Jordan Mozer & Associates, Ltd
Kate Neisser, Independent Writer & Editor
Bud Rodecker, Span
Steve Ryan, Substance Collective
Arlene Semel, Semel-Snow
Lisa Skolnik, Purpose Brand
Eugene Varnado II, YoojDesign
Tanner Woodford, Design Museum of Chicago

Auxiliary Board

Marlene Paez Dukes, People's Action Institute, Co-Chair
Justin Redding, UJAMAA Construction, Co-Chair

Laura Sofia Cardozo, Breakout
Alexandria Eregbu, FINDING IJEOMA
Amanda Harth, Monday Coffee
Sharlene King, Salesforce

Jon Veal, alt Space Chicago, Emeritus Member