• Maryam Judar, community lawyer at the Citizen Advocacy Center in Elmhurst

• Lyn Neuhengen, former program manager for the Volunteer Center of Northwest Suburban Chicago

• Joseph Mancino, mayor, Village of Hawthorn Woods

• Dale Perrin, executive director, Lake Zurich Area Chamber of Commerce

• Robert Rammer, director of communications for Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200

• Tony Sanders, chief communications officer, Elgin Area School District U-46

• Lindsay Smidt, social studies teacher at St. Charles North High School