Meet the Team
Board & Advisory Board
FACETS' Board of Directors and Advisory Board are made up of community and industry leaders with expertise in a wide range of areas, including film production, education, marketing, finance, law, fund development, and business management.
FACETS Board of Directors with Screen Gems 2022 honoree Chaz Ebert.
Board of Directors
Randy Adamsick, Co-Chair
Nonprofit Consultant
Tamara Bohorquez, Co-Chair
Shopper Marketing Strategy Lead
Tombras
Howard Blietz
CEO, Motus Digital, LLP
Twania Brewster
Chicago Children’s Museum – Vice President of Marketing, Communications and Guest Services Operations
Judy Bross
Editor, Classic Chicago Magazine
Suzette Bross
Founder and Executive Director, CPS Lives
Penny Brown
Trustee, National Louis University
Steve Bynum
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Manager, WBEZ
Mitchell Cobey
Civic Leader
Owner, Mitchell Cobey Catering (retired)
Karen Cardarelli
FACETS Executive Director
David Edelberg M.D.
Whole Health Chicago
Christopher Hagenah
Teacher, Chicago Academy for the Arts
Rebecca Halpern
Producer/Director
Gretchen Helfrich
Attorney, Office of the Illinois Attorney General
Julie Jahn
Board Member, Lincoln Park Conservancy
Josh Mann
Senior Director of People and Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Rich Moskal
Film & Media Consultant
Michael Nehs
Periscope Post & Audio
Partner
Biba Roesch
Civic Leader
Marketing and Public Relations Executive
Matthew Steinmetz
Partner, Kirkland Ellis, LLP
Advisory Board
Monika Betts
Civic Leader
Sophia Wong Boccio
Founder, Asian Pop-Up Cinema
Stephanie Comer
Director, Comer Family Foundation
Chaz Ebert
President, The Ebert Company, Ltd.
Maria Giese
Writer, Director, Speaker
Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido
President, FGP Atelier Architecture
Mark Kelly
Retired Commissioner DCASE, City of Chicago
Anstiss Krueck
Director, Anstiss & Ronald Krueck Foundation
Tracy Kupferberg
Civic Leader
Lisa Yun Lee
Executive Director, National Public Housing Museum
Melissa McClayton
Civic Leader
Holly Chapman
Producer, Lunamax Films
Elspeth Revere
Ravenswood Consulting
Max Rovner
Psychiatrist, former FACETS Board member
Dawn Sinclair Shapiro
Writer, Filmmaker, Producer
Alissa Simon
Film Festival Programmer
Pepe Vargas
International Latino Cultural Center