Retirement Security

• Drunita Steward – Chicago Teachers Union

  December 10, 2021: Drunita Steward taught secondary mathematics  for over 35 years and has served as a Chicago Teachers Union delegate for over 45 years both as an Active Teacher and a Retired Teacher. Her roles at CTU include District Supervisor and organizer for...Read more >

• Gail Donnelly Bader, YWCA of Southwest Illinois

  December 10, 2021: Gail Donnelly Bader spent her career in law. She received her B.S. Central Michigan University; JD Washington University at St. Louis (Order of the Coif) and has been the recipient of the  Woman of DIstinction award and the Joseph R. Bartylak Pro ...Read more >

• Scott Marshall – SOAR

  December 09, 2021: Scott Marshall spent his career in manufacturing and is the International Vice President of the Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees. Scott is committed to justice, and anti-racist action spurring from his early involvement with the civil...Read more >

• Miller Rodgers – UAW Local 6

  December 09, 2021: Miller Rodgers worked as an assembler, repairman, and in maintenance at the International Harvester Company diesel engine plant in Melrose Park, where he was a proud member of United Auto Workers Local 6. For more than 15 years he served as a tru...Read more >

• Jacklyn Naughton – Illinois Federation of Teachers

  October 11, 2021:   Jacklyn Naughton is the Secretary of the Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans, as well as the Retiree Chair for the North Suburban Teachers Union. She has her MS in Cellular and Molecular Biology and spent her career as a science teacher...Read more >

• Jane Russell – West Suburban Teachers Union / Illinois Federation of Teachers

  October 08, 2021: Jane Russell has been a champion for working people and public education for more than four decades. She is currently the Secretary Treasurer for the Illinois Federation of Teachers, the Secretary of the North Central Illinois Labor Council, has ...Read more >

• Charlotte Sanders – Chicago Teachers Union

  October 08, 2021: Charlotte Sanders was elected as an IARA Executive Board member at the 2021 Biennial Convention. An early childhood paraprofessional for 27 years, Charlotte continues to organize with the Chicago Teachers Union as a member of the CTU Retiree Standi...Read more >

• John Murphy – Illinois Federation of Teachers, University Professionals of Illinois Local 4100

  October 08, 2021: For 35 years, John Murphy was a professor of political science at Northwestern Illinois University.  John’s background includes  A.B (cum laude) Harvard, M.A., University of Chicago, Professor Emeritus,  Northeastern Illinois University, and...Read more >

• Stephanie Collins – Chicago Metro Retirees

  October 08, 2021: Stephanie Collins is the President of the Chicago Metro Retirees Chapter of the Alliance for Retired Americans, as well as the Chair of the Retiree Standing Committee of the Chicago Teachers Union, financial secretary for the CTU Black Caucus, and ...Read more >

• 2021 IARA Virtual Convention

  August 31, 2021:   Join grassroots leaders, activists, organizers from around the state for the 2021 Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans Biennial convention which will be held by virtually and by phone via Zoom on Wednesday September 29th starting at 10...Read more >