Global View
After college, I served for two years as a volunteer in the U.S. Peace Corps in Kenya, Africa where I worked with various women's groups to build health clinics and water supplies, and provided training in primary health with UNICEF and a Catholic Mission hospital. During my free time, I coached the local high school basketball team and trained long distance runners. I remain active with the Chicago Area Returned Peace Corps Association, CAPCA, an organization that works for world peace, with an emphasis on "Bringing the World Back Home" after service overseas.
I was drawn back to my hometown Chicago, where I worked at the Kirkland & Ellis law firm and later obtained my law degree at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology.
Upon graduation, I helped create and implement Global Chicago, to foster global collaboration with Chicago's many economic, cultural, and intellectual institutions. I worked with the Dean of Chicago-Kent, Hank Perritt, on projects involving the U.S. State Department, the American Bar Association ABA-CEELI, and various governments in the Balkans. We developed nation-building projects that assisted the War Crimes Tribunal in the former Yugoslavia, established a rule of law, and worked on economic development projects. I served as an advisor to the President of Kosovo and the interim government after the end of the Kosovo War.
I am also a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, formerly the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.