NASW-IL Advisory Board
2025–2026
LaTasha Roberson-Guifarro, MSW, LCSW
(She/Her)
President, 2025–2027
Jennifer Gazda, DSW, LCSW, CMC, CDP
(She/Her)
Vice-President for Budget and Finance, 2023–2025
Diane D. Williams, PhD, AM, MSW
(She/Her)
Secretary, 2024–2026
Lorraine Guerrero, MSW, LCSW, CADC, PEL
(She/Her)
Member At-Large, 2025–2027
Michael F. Mallory, MSW, LCSW
(He/Him)
Member At-Large, 2024–2026
Josephine Vachachira
DePaul University
Graduate Student Representative, 2025–2026
W. Winston Scott
Southern Illinois University
(He/Him)
Undergraduate Student Representative, 2025– 2026
Alnita Myles, MSW, LCSW
(She/Her)
Calumet District Chair, 2024–2026
Jasmine Chandy, MSW, LCSW,
(She/Her)
Chicago District Chair, 2024–2026
Staci McNicholl, MSW, LCSW, (She/Her)
East Central District Chair, 2025–2027
Danielle Monks, MSW, PEL, CADC
(She/Her)
Jane Addams District Chair, 2025–2026
Lita Simanis, LCSW, PMH-C
(She/Her)
Northeastern Chair, 2025– 2027
Staci M. Knox, LMSW, LCSW
(She/Her)
Southern District Chair, 2024–2026
E. Cordelia Miller Muhammad, MSW, LCSW
(She/Her)
Three Rivers District Chair, 2025–2027
Hannah Rovey, MSW, LCSW
West Central District Chair, 2025–2027
"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."
—Jane Addams