Jennifer Sierecki
Munai Newash
Maria Montoya
Constance Dabney
Kristen Cox
Jennifer Pallas
Jim Masini has been involved with North Side since the credit union's formative years. He has served on the Board since 1978 and as President since 1983. Jim has a Masters in Business Administration and has been a Business Manager for 2 Catholic parishes in Chicago for the last 13 years. He lives in Lakeview, is married with a wife (Linda) and 2 children (Melissa & Matthew).
Cliff Scott-Rudnick has been on the North Side board since 1986, and has served as Vice President since 1990. Cliff has been a licensed attorney for over twenty-five years and a trust officer for over twenty years. While Cliff currently concentrates on trust new business development for Suburban Bank & Trust Company, he has also worked as a union organizer, caseworker, labor lawyer, and workers compensation attorney. Cliff's volunteer activities include Junior Achievement Project Business, Local School Council Representative for Chicago Public Schools, and Board member for Metropolitan Family Services. He received his Juris Doctor Degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago Kent College of Law and his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology from Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.
Kelly has served on the North Side Board since 2000, and was elected Vice President in 2005. She has been appointed Business Finance Specialist for the Women's Business Development Center (WBDC). Before joining the WBDC, Kelly worked as an analyst and investment officer for the Bank One Community Development Corporation, First Chicago's Community Development Lending Division, and American National Bank & Trust Company of Chicago. In her role at WBDC, Kelly serves as a consultant to small business owners to help them get loans to start or expand their operations. Using her banking experience and the WBDC's extensive relationship with banks and other lenders, Kelly attempts to match business owners with lenders who might be amenable to the loan request. She also serves on the State Treasurer of Illinois' Women's Advisory Board. Kelly is a graduate of University of Illinois at Chicago's Master of Urban Planning and Policy program, and she holds a Bachelor's degree in finance, and Business Economics from the University of Notre Dam in Indiana.
Ana is the Site Supervisor for The Resurrection Project (TRP) in Melrose Park. She oversees the implementation and marketing of financial education programs at this satellite office, including asset building initiatives, pre - and -post purchase workshops, and individual counseling services. Before joining TRP, she worked in New York City as the Financial Education Director for Credit Where Credit is Due (CWCID) - a non-profit organization that sponsors its own community development credit union. In her role at CWCID, Ana oversaw an intensive financial education program integrated into credit union operations and embedded within community organizations most effective at reaching the unbanked. She also participated as member of the credit union lending committee in charge of evaluating loan applications and has experience providing technical assistance to small business owners. Ana is a graduate from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, with a Masters in Economic Development, and holds a Bachelor's degree from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma (UNAM) in Mexico City where she was born.p>
Curtis Roeschley has been on the North Side Board since 1990 and currently serves as Treasurer. Curt is the Director of the Small Business Development Center at the Jane Addams Hull House Association. As director he oversees two offices on the north and south sides of Chicago, and is responsible for program design, implementation, development, financial management, and providing counseling to small business clients. He has previous experience as an independent bookstore business manager, and has an MBA from Eastern University in Pennsylvania.
Ms. Sierecki brings over ten years of experience focusing on strategies to assist individuals and families gain financial access. She was formerly the Relationship Manager for Advent Financial Services where she was responsible for expanding and maintaining partnerships with Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) organizations and commercial tax preparers interested in offering low cost financial products and services to their clients. Prior to her work at Advent, she was the Marketing Manager at the North Side Community Federal Credit Union. As the Marketing Manager, she led initiatives to market credit union products and services to partners and members, spearheaded new product development and implementation, managed its VITA program, and developed strategies to support the credit union’s expansion into new community areas. Prior to her first role at the credit union, she gained experience in micro-enterprise development training and lending as the Director of Lending for the Economic and Community Development Institute (ECDI) in Columbus, Ohio. At ECDI, she managed over $600,000 in small business loan funds for refugees, immigrants, and low-to-moderate income entrepreneurs and managed the largest IDA program in Ohio. She was also a Program Manager of the Uptown Center Hull House Small Business Development Center where she assisted small business owners with training, technical assistance, and access to capital.Ms. Sierecki serves as a board member of the Organization of the North East (ONE) and is a member of the Financial Partners Steering Committee for the Center for Economic Progress. She received her undergraduate degree in Education and Social Policy from Northwestern University and is pursuing her Masters of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Maria has been with North Side CFCU since 1996 and has assumed increasing responsibilities over the past decade. She began her employment as a teller and was promoted to collections/loan assistant, and later Loan Manager. She is responsible for processing daily transmissions of ATM, ACH, and Share Drafts, and maintaining and posting member loan payments from payroll deduction or direct deposit. She is in charge of processing all loan applications, monitors loan performance, and maintains records of delinquent accounts. Ms. Montoya is bi-lingual in Spanish and English and is the key point of contact for the New Americans Loan Program.
Connie joined North Side 2002. She is in charge of all member transactions at the front level and is the first point of contact any member has with the credit union upon walking into our offices or over the phone. She addresses member questions about accounts and credit union products and services. A mother of four, Connie grew up on the south side of Chicago and currently resides in Uptown.
Kristen brings over ten years of non-profit community development and partnership building experience to North Side. She comes to us from the Logan Square Neighborhood Association where she worked as Development Associate, and as a Chicago organizing consultant for the Working Group on Extreme Inequality, a project of Institute for Policy Studies (D.C). Kristen is passionate about economic justice and creative forms of social change. She founded the Fire This Time Fund in 2006 to fund small-scale, creative social change projects, for which she received a 2007 Community Renewal Society "35 Under 35 Leadership" award. She is a contributing writer to AREA Chicago, board member of Young Chicago Authors, and part-family farm owner in Woodford County, Kentucky. Kristen earned a masters degree in social work with a concentration in community development from the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago.
Munai joined the credit union staff as the Housing Counselor in August 2008. She has 4 1/2 years of experience assisting and educating low and moderate first time homebuyers and mortgagers on the process of buying and keeping their homes. She came to us from ACORN Housing. Before her housing counseling work, she worked as an Educational Developer with Greater West Town Project, assisting adults in job skill trainings and prior to that worked with Southwest Women Working Together as a Case Manager in their long term housing program. She has a BA in Human Development/ Social Relations from Earlham College and a Masters in Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Jennifer joined the credit union staff as a Housing Counselor in July 2009. She brings four years of housing advocacy experience for low- and moderate-income, first time homebuyers and renters. For two years, Jennifer was the Housing Counselor for Berwyn Housing Center, a program of Oak Park Regional Housing Center. She has also worked as an AmeriCorps VISTA for United Cerebral Palsy's Home Of Your Own (HOYO) program in Houston, TX. She has a BA in Psychology from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, TX
