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CHICAGO, IL (November 5, 2008) – Arts and education activist and philanthropist Georgia Fogelson has been named to the Columbia College Chicago Board of Trustees, announced college President Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D.
Ms. Fogelson resides in Chicago and Palm Springs, California where she serves on the board of the Palm Springs Art Museum and chairs the museum’s education committee as well as serving on several other committees. Fogelson also serves on the board of the Young Women’s Leadership Charter School on Chicago’s South Side. She is a director of the Fogelson Foundation, a privately funded charitable family foundation launched in 2003. Fogelson previously served as chair of Chicago’s critically acclaimed Remains Theatre.
Prior to her involvement with education and the arts, Fogelson enjoyed a twenty-year career in qualitative market research. She was the first woman vice president of Market Facts and in 1975 founded Georgia Bender Research (GBR). GBR’s client list included International Harvester, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, Sears, Carnation and Brown and Williamson.
Fogelson holds a degree in Psychology from DePaul University. She is married to Gerald Fogelson.
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