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2008 Friends of St. Jude Chicago Executive Board

Executive Director

Mary Kilkenny

Alma Mater - Notre Dame

Under the Harvest Moon Co-Chairs

Tim Blackmun

Alma Mater - Indiana University - Bloomington (Undergrad), Loyola University Chicago (Grad)

Brittany Riordan

Alma Mater – Villanova University (Undergrad), Northwestern University (Grad)

Auction Co-Chairs

Ameer Ahmad

Alma Mater – University of Illinois, University of Illinois - College of Law

Patrick Gleason

Alma Mater – University of Notre Dame

Membership Chair

 

Jenny Pinto

Alma Mater – University of Missouri-Columbia

When she’s not scooting around Chicago or digging through bargain shoe racks, Jenny finds time to be the Executive Editor of Residential Lighting magazine. The big sister of a former St. Jude patient, she joined FOSJ as a board member in 2006 and has been the Membership Chair for the last two years. Jenny is always on the look out for the next big thing and dreams of someday opening her own luxury paper store. She is most happy while enjoying Chicago summers, good wine and bad TV.

Public Relations Chair

Suzanne Velonis

Alma Mater – North Carolina State

Born and raised in Charlotte, NC, Suzanne graduated from North Carolina State University in 2003 and moved to Chicago in May 2005. She is an Account Executive at Two by Four, a full service ad agency, and is currently the Marketing/PR Chair on the Friends of St. Jude Chicago Executive Board.

Side Event Co-Chairs

 

Kelly Gribbin

Alma Mater – University of Richmond (Undergrad), The Ohio State University (Grad)

 

Samantha Snodgrass

Alma Mater – Drury University

Sponsorship Co-Chairs

Kathleen Brown

Alma Mater – University of Illinois (Undergrad), Northwestern University (Grad)

After graduating from the University of Illinois, Kathleen was looking for a way to incorporate her passion for helping St. Jude - having helped launch the Up ’til Dawn program at her alma mater - and has found the Friends of St. Jude Auxiliary Board to be an excellent way to meet other young professionals who share that passion. Thanks to the world-class treatment that she received for Ewing’s Sarcoma while she was a teen, Kathleen is now able to give back to the hospital that saved her life. In addition to serving as Sponsorship Co-Chair with her college friend Maura Deady, Kathleen works in the media industry for ABC and ESPN Radio Networks while attending Northwestern University part-time in pursuit of her master’s in sports marketing.

Maura Deady

Alma Mater - University of Illinois