Board of Directors

Latinos Progresando is guided by a diverse, dedicated Board of Directors that is made up of some of our region’s most devoted civic and business leaders.

 

Sarah B. Waxman

President

Sarah Waxman has worked with Latinos Progresando since 2001. Currently the President of the Board of Directors, she has previously worked as a volunteer, the Director of Legal Services, and as a grant writer. Sarah is an attorney at Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP, where she practices in the area of commercial litigation, with a specialization in bankruptcy. She received a B.A. and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.

Appointed in 2006 by the Board of Directors

 

Sarah Diaz

Secretary

DePaul University College of Law, Asylum & Immigration Law Clinic.

Appointed in 2010 by the Board of Directors

 

 

 

Tasneem Goodman

Tasneem K. Goodman is the Director of Marketing at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. Based in the Chicago office, Ms. Goodman leads the firm’s marketing and business development team, which serves each of the firm’s domestic offices and its London affiliate. Ms. Goodman oversees all aspects of the firm’s marketing, business development, client relations, public relations and internal and external communications initiatives.

Ms. Goodman has spoken frequently on legal marketing and business development topics and has served as a source of commentary on these subjects to the media. Her legal marketing and business development work has won several awards, and she has quickly become recognized as a leader in her field.

Prior to joining Katten, Ms. Goodman practiced law in the corporate department of Latham & Watkins LLP, where she represented publicly-traded and privately-held companies in mergers, acquisitions and securities offerings, and in the restructuring group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where she represented corporate debtors in bankruptcy planning, negotiation and litigation.

Ms. Goodman graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, and she earned her Bachelor’s degree, with honors, from the University of Chicago. Ms. Goodman is admitted to practice law in Illinois.

Ms. Goodman is the president-elect of the Legal Marketing Association’s Midwest chapter. In addition to working with Latinos Progresando, she also serves on the board of directors of Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth, a nonprofit organization that promotes one-on-one mentoring relationships between adults and young people. She is also an active alumna of the University of Chicago, volunteering for The College, The Law School and the Chicago Society.

Appointed in 2005 by the Board of Directors

 

Daniel Piña

Heartland Food Corp.

Appointed in 2006 by the Board of Directors

 

 

 

 

Luis Gutierrez

Luis founded Latinos Progresando in January 1998 at the age of 24 to address the lack of high-quality, accessible, culturally- and linguistically-sensitive community resources in his home neighborhood, Little Village. Before founding the organization, Luis worked as a restaurant manager, and then as a Citizenship Coordinator for Hermandad Mexicana Nacional, a Chicago-based organization offering assistance to immigrants seeking to become United States citizens. Since founding the organization, he has lead Latinos Progresando as its Executive Director and as a member of its Board of Directors.

Luis was born and raised in the Chicago neighborhood of Little Village (a.k.a. South Lawndale), where Latinos Progresando is based and located. He currently resides in Pilsen, the other Chicago neighborhood that is home to a significant portion of LP’s client base and activities. Luis’s unique personal proximity to the communities that LP serves gives him invaluable insight into the needs of those communities and has enabled him to successfully cultivate the organization’s trademark model of constituent-led and constituent–informed programming.

In 2005, Luis was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by the City of Chicago in recognition of his service to the local community as a nonprofit leader. In 2006, he was nominated for the Immigrant and Refugee Contributions Award, and in 2007, was awarded a 35 under 35 Leadership Award by the Chicago-based Community Renewal Society. Currently, Luis sits on the Board of Directors for the Latino Policy Forum, where he is the Chair of the Sub-Committee on Immigration Policy. Additionally, he sits on an Associate Board of Directors for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and for the Daniel Murphy Scholarship Foundation. Finally, Luis also sits on the Illinois Steering Committee of the National Alliance for Latin American and Caribbean Communities

Appointed in 1998 by the Board of Directors

 

Alex Montgomery

Erie Elementary Charter School.

Appointed in 2011 by the Board of Directors

 

 

 

 

Oscar Chacón

National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC).

Appointed in 2005 by the Board of Directors

 

 

 

 

Elkin Arredondo

New Futuro

Appointed in 2011 by the Board of Directors

 

 

 

 

Al Shaw

Community Renewal Society

Appointed in 2012 by the Board of Directors

 

 

 

 

Moises Hernandez

Moises Hernandez, LLC

Appointed in 2012 by the Board of Directors