Advisory Committee

The committee meets several times annually to coordinate financial/budgetary matters, program promotion, candidate interviewing/selection and fundraising.  Membership of the committee demonstrates the continuity and commitment of its founders and partners.  Five members are former NIPC employees, three members are CMAP employees, one member is a former Peters Fellows and three are members of the Peters family.  

Committee Chairman

Keith Sbiral, AICP
- First Peters Fellow (2000)

John A. Swanson, Executive Director, Advisory Board of Trustees, Catholic Charities Diocese of Gary, Indiana
- Former Executive Director, Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission (NIRPC)
- Former Executive Director, Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (NIPC)

Tony Manno, Senior Planner, Planning Division, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning

Larry Christmas, Former Executive Director, Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission

Hubert Morgan, Principal, Stanhope Consulting
- Former staff member, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning

John Paige, AICP, President, Urban Planning Services, Inc.
- Former staff member, Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission

Yesenia Ambriz, CMAP, HR Associate

Jean Peters

John Peters

Susan Peters Schaefer

Deborah Washington, Former staff member, Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission