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| Hanke Gratteau |
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Hanke Gratteau, Executive Director
Award-winning journalist Hanke Gratteau joined The John Howard Association of Illinois as executive director in April, 2009.
Ms. Gratteau has over three decades' experience reporting on matters of public interest and advocating for reforms. She left the Chicago Tribune in 2008, after a long and productive career that saw her rise from an assistant to columnist Mike Royko to managing editor for news, a masthead position at the Midwest’s most influential newspaper. At the Tribune, Ms. Gratteau served in a variety of positions, including investigative reporter, columnist, and metropolitan editor before her appointment as managing editor for news.
She directed the reporting efforts for “Gateway to Gridlock," an examination of national air traffic congestion that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. As a reporter, Ms. Gratteau wrote extensively on criminal justice issues. A series of articles on mental health and corrections won the media award from the John Howard Association in 1985. As an editor, Ms. Gratteau oversaw several projects including a series on prosecutorial misconduct and articles on wrongful convictions. Those efforts laid the ground work for the newspaper’s examination of injustices in the state’s death penalty system that led to a moratorium on capital punishment in Illinois. Other awards and honors include the 1993 William H. Jones Award for Investigative Reporting; the Golden Bell Award of the Mental Health Association of Illinois for her coverage of mental health issues; and a 2005 honorary doctorate of letters from her alma mater, the University of Illinois.
Before joining the Chicago Tribune in 1984, Ms. Gratteau was a reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Daily News.
In January, 2009, Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn appointed Ms. Gratteau to the Illinois Reform Commission, a panel of citizens charged with recommending changes to Illinois laws in the aftermath of the arrest of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
She is a member of the Association of Women Journalists.
Hanke can be reached at hgratteau@john-howard.org
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| Shaena Fazal |
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Shaena Fazal, Director, Long Term Prisoner Policy Project (LT3P)
Shaena Fazal is the co-founder and Director of the Long-Term Prisoner Policy Project and a Soros Justice Advocacy Fellow. In this position, she advocates for humane treatment of long-term prisoners, works to renew the public's commitment to rehabilitation, and focuses on changing policies that have resulted in the warehousing of long-term prisoners. Ms. Fazal established this project when she witnessed the inhumane treatment of long term prisoners in Illinois prisons through representing indigent defendants on appeal in capital and non-capital cases. Prior to her current position, she was an Assistant Appellate Defender for the Office of the State Appellate Defender and a Constituent Advocate for Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky.
In 1997, Ms. Fazal earned a dual bachelor's degree in Black World Studies and Sociology from Miami University. To complete her degree in Black World Studies, she studied abroad in Ghana. She obtained her Juris Doctor in 2000 from the Chicago-Kent College of Law. She is a volunteer teacher at St. Leonard's Adult High School, tutors students through the Minority Legal Education Resources, and represents pro bono clients at parole hearings and in post-conviction proceedings. Ms. Fazal is also General Counsel for the Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and is the Chair of the Illinois State Bar Association's Standing Committee on Corrections and Sentencing.
On November 16, 2006, Shaena was awarded the Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Public Interest Award from her alma mater, Chicago Kent School of Law, for her work on behalf of long term prisoners. She is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association.
Shaena can be reached at shaena@john-howard.org.
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Staff
Charles A. Fasano, Director, Prison and Jails Program
Mr. Fasano is Director of the Prisons and Jails Program of the John Howard Association (JHA), a private, not-for-profit agency working for prison and jail reform since 1901. Since 1988, he has been responsible for monitoring conditions throughout the Illinois Department of Corrections (26-28 adult prisons, 3 boot camps, and 8 juvenile facilities), the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, and the Cook County Department of Corrections (CCDOC), which JHA monitors for the U. S. District Court in Duran v. Sheahan et al., a class-action lawsuit regarding crowding and conditions of confinement that began in 1974, and other correctional facilities. Mr. Fasano also serves as a court-appointed expert in Harrington v. Sheahan et al., a federal class-action suit regarding mental health care at CCDOC. Most recently, Mr. Fasano is also a court-appointed monitor in Doe v. Cook County et al., the federal class-action conditions case involving the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
Other professional experience includes: two (2) years as Director of Accreditation for the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, inspecting more than 50 jails, prisons, and juvenile facilities in more than 20 states; and, seven (7) years as Director of Human Services/Chief Ombudsman at the Cook County Department of Corrections. Mr. Fasano is an Adjunct Instructor in the Justice Studies Department at Northeastern Illinois University and previously in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has inspected more than 90 correctional institutions in 12 states; in addition, he has published articles in several professional journals, served as an expert witness in individual and class-action lawsuits, and taught and lectured extensively. He has served as a member of Institutional Review Boards for the Cook County Bureau of Health Services and the University of Chicago Division of Biological Sciences & Hospitals.
Charlie can be reached at charlie@john-howard.org.
Daniel K. Hoffman, Office Manager
Dan is the Association's Office Manager. He has over a decade of experinece in both small business and non-profit administration and has served as a part-time assistant manager for a creative criminal justice foundation. Mr. Hoffman holds a Bachelor of Science from Northern Illinois University and an Associate of Arts in Business Administration from Harper College, Palatine, Illinois. He brings organizational, computer, finance management, data management, word processing and publications design skills to the Association, where he is the first point of contact for many who call or write to the Association's office.
Dan can be reached at dhoffman@john-howard.org
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Consultants
Patricia Connell, Lead Consultant
Pat can reached at pconnell7@comcast.net
Bernard Glos, Juvenile Justice Consultant
Bernard can be reached at bglos@aol.com
Wendy D. White, Training Consultant
Wendy D. White is a Consultant with John Howard Association of Illinois charged with creating the Training Curriculum for staff working within our state juvenile centers. Wendy has a Master of Social Work from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Marketing Communications from Roosevelt University. She also graduated from Ball State University with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism.
Wendy most recently worked with Heartland Alliance as their Manager of Labor Relations and Training. Most of her efforts with Heartland Alliance were to ensure that the Collective Bargaining Agreement with the NOLSW/UAW was upheld. Her past work also includes vast training and program management experience with TANF recipients, ex-offenders and at-risk youth.
Wendy can be reached at wendy.white@sbcglobal.net
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