About SEA

Board of Directors.

Board of Directors

Members

Board President

Deanna Tyrpak

Current/Past Affiliations

Co-Founder, Executive Director, SEA

Speech Language Pathologist

Director

Jonathan Lotsoff

Current/Past Affiliations

Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Treasurer

Current/Past Affiliations

Treasurer position oversight currently outsourced to Porte Brown LLC

Secretary & Director

Dan Baldassano

Current/Past Affiliations

Regional Vice President, Elasticsearch, Inc.

Director

Emmett Bullen

Current/Past Affiliations

Financial Advisor, Alpha Wealth Group Founder, Evergreen Property MGMT, LLC

Director

Mark Montana

Current/Past Affiliations

Senior Vice President, Avison Young-Chicago LLC

Former Principal/Founding Partner CresaPartners, Chicago, LLC Founding Member, Vistage Chicago

Director

Brennan Meyer

Current/Past Affiliations

Financial Advisor, ChFC®, RLP®, AAMS™ Edward Jones,

Director

Bradford Miller

Current/Past Affiliations

Owner, Bradford Miller Law P.C.

Board of Directors

Honorary Advisory Board

Lisa deFaria, L.C.S.W., B.C.D.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Sima Gerber, Ph.D., CCC

Speech & Language Pathologist

Dr. Neil Margolis, FCOVD

Optometrist

Ruby Salazar, L.C.S.W., B.C.D.

Clinical Social Worker

Diane Selinger, Ph.D.

Clinical Psychology

Anju Usman, M.D.

True Health Medical Center

Serena Wieder, Ph.D.

Clinical Psychology

Amy Zier, M.S., OTR/L

Occupational Therapist

Our Mission

To provide an academic and social learning environment for students with special needs that supports their individual strengths and learning styles and integrates learning and interaction within Developmental Language Models and Developmental Individual-Difference Relationship (DIR®) based approach principles.