Lake County Community Foundation Adds Trio To Board

The Lake County Community Foundation has recently added Elizabeth Forbrich, Ennedy Rivera and Carol Sonnenschein to its 18-member board of directors.

Forbrich, who lives in Evanston, served as executive director of the YWCA Lake County for 15 years from 1995-2010.  During her tenure, she expanded the program base from childcare to include women’s economic advancement, women and girl’s health, parent/family management and youth leadership development, focusing on low-income, underserved women, girls and families in Lake County.

Rivera was born and raised in Waukegan, where she is currently employed as an immigration attorney for the law firm of Wysocki & Smith. Ennedy represents complex immigration cases before the Northern District of Illinois and U.S. Consulates, handling multifaceted divorce proceedings, real estate transactions and civil matters. Now living in Highland Park, she completed two fellowships, the Mansfield Fellowship for Public Interest Law and the International Human Rights Institute and graduated from the Metropolitan Leadership Institute in 2010.

Sonnenschein, of Grayslake, is a sociologist and geographic information system (GIS) analyst who works in Illinois and New Mexico to help local governments, nonprofit organizations and community groups understand demographic, social and economic trends in their communities. Her prior work was as program director at Chicago Metropolis 2020 where she directed the organization’s GIS program, focusing on research and analysis related to issues of development and transportation in the Chicago region.

She received her master's and doctorate in sociology from Loyola University Chicago, where she was also a professor of Sociology from 1991-1996.  She has served on a number of boards and committees in the metropolitan Chicago area.

About The Lake County Community Foundation

Since 2003, The Lake County Community Foundation, an affiliate of The Chicago Community Trust, has partnered with donors to help transform the lives of the most vulnerable people across the county. They have contributed more than $1.7 million to nonprofit organizations that support basic human needs, community development, education and health throughout Lake County.