The Chicago Photography Center Board of Directors provides financial, strategic and operational oversight to the organization.
OFFICERS
Karen A. Egerer : President
Karen formed Heartland International, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization, specializing in the design, implementation and evaluation of international programs and projects focusing on democracy and economic development. Karen’s international career has included consultant on the staff of the Program on Peace and International Cooperation at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; coordinator of international programs at UIC; program director at the Mid-America Committee for International Business and Government Cooperation; and co-director of the World Without War Council in Chicago. A graduate of DePaul University, Karen is married to a Hoosier and has one son.
Betsy Lent : Secretary
Betsy Lent is a CPC student, volunteer, and director of CPC’s community outreach program. During daylight hours, she is a senior litigation paralegal at McGuireWoods.
MEMBERS
Angela Garbot
Colin McRoberts
Colin McRoberts is an attorney who practices commercial litigation in the Chicago area. He began studying and volunteering at the CPC in 2008, and joined the board in 2011. His work generally focuses on the urban environment of Chicago, but when the climate allows he particularly enjoys nature and entomological photography.
Warren Perlstein
Warren Perlstein is a highly committed photographer with more than 40 years of experience in commercial, industrial, architectural and special event photography. He is President of Warren Perlstein Photography LLC and Yellow Page Pics, a stock photography agency.
Warren was curator and major contributor of photographs for the American Indian Center (AIC) of Chicago’s “50 Years of Powwow” photo exhibition, which the Field Museum is currently traveling internationally. Warren’s work is also featured in Arcadia Press’ “50 Years of Powwow” book. He also curated the exhibit “First Exposure”, photography from the American Indian Center’s 57th annual powwow and co-curated “I 
Ink”, a photographic exhibit of the art of tattoo.
Currently, his photography is exhibited in Washington DC’s National Museum of the American Indian and various Smithsonian publications. His work has been exhibited at The Field Museum, Chicago History Museum, the Illinois State Museum Art Galleries and Chicago American Indian Center’s Trickster Gallery.
Warren is also on the Advisory Board of the American Indian Center.
Tom Snow
Tom has served on the CPC board since 2010. He began his affiliation with CPC in 2005, first as a student, then as a show member and a frequent volunteer. Tom has an MS degree in Biology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, along with a great deal of software course work at University of DePaul, and has spent over thirty years working in financial software development. He is interested in all forms of photography, but his passion and personal interest lie with event photography. In addition to his recent Board membership, Tom is also an occasional CPC instructor.
Jean Sousa
Jean Sousa has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and received numerous grants and fellowships including two artist fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, and a Regional Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is working primarily in photography with an earlier body of work in experimental film. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Hunter Museum of American Art in Tennessee, the Audible Gallery at the Experimental Sound Studio, and the Rockford Art Museum. Her films have been screened at the London Filmmakers Cooperative, Collectif Jeune Cinéma in Paris, and Millennium in New York, the Cinematheque in San Francisco, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston among other venues.
Ms. Sousa has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and MIT Summer Institute for Film, Photography, and Video at Hampshire College. She served as Trott Family Director of Interpretive Exhibitions and Family Programs at the Art Institute of Chicago where she curated exhibitions for young visitors and oversaw a broad range of family and community programs. She is the author of “Faces, Places, and Inner Spaces,” a book about looking at art for young readers that was co-published by Abrams and the Art Institute of Chicago and reviewed by the New York Times Book Review. Ms. Sousa has been awarded Artist Residencies at Ox-Bow, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation. Additional professional activities include presentations as Chair and panelist at numerous national and international conferences including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and the National Gallery of Ireland. She received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts, Magna Cum Laude, and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
EMERITUS
Roger Rudich
Roger Rudich – board member emeritus and advisor to the board – is a founding board member of CPC. His other not-for-profit activities include currently serving on the executive committees of the boards of directors of both Temple Sholom of Chicago and the Civil War Roundtable of Chicago. He previously served on the board and as Assistant Commission of the Chicago Lakeshore chapter of the American Youth Soccer Association, where he currently serves as auditor. Roger has been a personal injury lawyer in Chicago since 1974.
