Chicago Urban League Names Jessica R. Harris Chief Development Officer and Promotes Calmetta Coleman to Chief Operating Officer
developing strategies to accelerate philanthropy, grow and diversify the League’s funding base, and secure major an planned gifts for the organization. She will report directly to President and CEO Karen Freeman-Wilson. Harris joins the Chicago Urban League from Cara Collective, where she was most recently Director of Advancement and responsible for a personal portfolio of $1 million of institutional funders and individual donors, as well as supervising and coaching team members who secure roughly $1 million of additional institutional support and $1 million of major and annual fund gifts.
Affairs & Programs. She will continue to oversee programs and provide strategic leadership for external affairs.
public relations agency; Vice President, Senior Communications
Manager for JPMorgan Chase & Co.; and Vice President, Media Relations Manager for Bank One. Coleman began her career in 1995 as a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal. She earned a bachelor’s degree in mass communications with a co-major in business management from Dillard University in New Orleans,
La., and a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
Established in 1916, the Chicago Urban League works to achieve equity for Black families and communities through social and economic empowerment. For more information, visit www.ChiUL.org. Find us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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