Interested in leadership on another level? Applications open for next Black Bench Chicago program.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Ald. Ronnie Mosely, right, talks to members of the Clean City Crew on June 16, 2023, in Chicago.
Black Bench Chicago's first cohort of graduates poses for a group photo on Nov. 14, 2021, at Tree House in River North. So Sims, Mosley and Hyde Park Summer Fest organizer Jonathan Swain, founded Black Bench Chicago in 2021 to educate millennial and Generation Z Black Chicagoans over the course of six months on legislative processes, special interests, the history of Black organizing in Chicago, and campaigns and budgets, among other topics. Experts lead discussions with participants in a collaborative, in-person format one day a month.
Black Bench Chicago's advisory board chair Jonathan Swain, left, and program founder Alexandra Sims speak as the first cohort of graduates gathers on Nov. 14, 2021, at an event at Tree House in River North.
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