Crystal Logan

Crystal Logan has been involved with the Foundation from a young age, attending meetings and site visits with her grandfather David. This experience urged her to push her thinking beyond the status quo and not take no for an answer – qualities that she considers essential in grantee partners as well.

Crystal is Co-Executive Director of the Foundation. She has also been serving as a Board Director and a Program Officer since 2018. She oversees the journalism portfolio, works with program officers on applications and strategy, meets with grantees, as well as handles human resources, communications, and improvement of internal operations and infrastructure.

In the journalism program area, she focuses on investigative journalism, creative strategies to reach new audiences, symposia/ training and three key geographical areas – US, Europe and Latin America. 

Crystal’s most ardent interests involve critical listening with grantees as they innovate to best serve their communities and consider holistic solutions to problems. 

Based between Latin America and the US, Crystal is passionate about this region of the world and an avid traveler.

She has two very noisy small children, is an avid reader and also a dog lover (with 3 giant rescue dogs).

Greg LeRoy

Dubbed “the leading national watchdog of state and local economic development subsidies,” from 1998 through mid-2026, Greg founded and directed Good Jobs First, a research and policy center promoting accountability in economic development and corporate social responsibility.

Greg led the campaign for Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement 77 on Tax Abatement Disclosures, a landmark in U.S. municipal finance. It requires most localities, for the first time, to disclose how much revenue they lose to tax abatement programs.

He wrote The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation (2005) and No More Candy Store: States and Cities Making Job Subsidies Accountable (1994). He is also a former national consultant against factory shutdowns, sleeping car porter, local union president, documentary filmmaker, and amateur labor historian.

James Harkin

James is a journalist who covers social change and political conflict and whose work appears in Vanity Fair, Harper’s, GQ, The Smithsonian, Prospect and the Guardian. A former director of talks at the Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA), he once taught politics at Oxford University, and was associate producer on Adam Curtis’s two BBC series The Trap and All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace. His last book, Hunting Season, an investigated account of the rise of the Islamic State group and its campaign of kidnapping journalists, was published in November 2015 by Little, Brown in the UK and Hachette in the US. In 2018 he was a fellow of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University, for a project on news media, “fake news” and “disinformation.”

Jim Hellige

James R. Hellige is an estate planning, trust, and nonprofit organization lawyer, concentrating his practice on estate planning, probate, trust law, sophisticated charitable giving, and related areas of income, gift, estate, and generation-skipping taxation. James is a partner in Foley & Lardner LLP’s Estates & Trusts Practice.

Mario Garcia

Mario F. García has over 40 years of experience in nonprofit management with specializations in organizational development and training. He currently serves as Executive Director of Onward Neighborhood House, a community based organization in the tradition of a settlement house serving immigrants and low income families of Chicago since 1893. Onward House assists families and individuals in need by providing access to a range of programs to create opportunities for long term success. During his tenure Mr. García has overseen the transition of Onward House from its origins in West Town to the Belmont Cragin community on the northwest side of Chicago while expanding the services offered.

Prior to taking the Executive Director position at Onward Neighborhood House in 2004, Mr. García led his own consulting business, García Consulting. There, he consulted and trained on subjects of board development, team-building, strategic planning and leadership. He has worked with a variety of organizations that include community-based organizations, government agencies, social service agencies, professional associations and local school councils. Additionally, Mr. García worked for the Latino Institute, holding several positions that included senior consultant and director of leadership and organizational development. He is currently a member of Chicago’s Early Childhood Education CEO Roundtable, and a board member for the ACLU of Illinois, as well as a board member of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute.

Mr. García was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala and speaks fluent English and Spanish. He has a B.S. in Psychology from Loyola University of Chicago and an M.S. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Illinois State University.

Patric McCoy

Patric McCoy is a retired environmental scientist in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA) Regional Office in Chicago. He became a National Expert and received numerous awards from the Department of Justice and the USEPA for his work there. He has a BA in Chemistry from the University of Chicago (1969) and an MA in Environmental Science from Governors State University (1979). 

Mr. McCoy has collected contemporary African American art for 50 years and has a collection of over 1300 pieces of fine art, 90% done by Chicago artists. In 2003 he co-founded Diasporal Rhythms a not-for-profit 501(c)3 arts organization that promotes the collection of art works by living artists of African descent.

Reuben Logan

Reuben Logan has worked in Education as a teacher and administrator for the past 15 years, recently moving from Melbourne, Victoria to Perth in Western Australia. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Anthropology and Archaeology from the University of Manchester and a Master of Teaching from the University of Manchester.  

He has a keen interest in Education and guaranteeing accessibility for all. He has been involved in projects with the Victorian Department of Education and Department of Justice to engage students with their schooling to prevent them from entering the Youth Justice system and ensure a successful transition back into education for those that have entered it.  

Reuben believes in the importance of taking a holistic approach to developing young people, leveraging and supporting their strengths and making sure their social and emotional needs are met. He is a passionate advocate of lifelong learning and ensuring that all young people have access to education and multiple opportunities to learn and thrive. 

Rozina Breen

Rozina Breen is an award-winning editor with a track record of audience growth, creative storytelling, and strategic partnerships.

She is Director of Editorial at the Pulitzer Centre on Crisis Reporting where she leads worldwide editorial initiatives.

A former editor-in-chief and CEO at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, leading strategic and digital transformation at the U.K.’s largest local-to-global investigative newsroom, Rozina also brings significant editorial leadership from the BBC, where she ran the U.K.’s largest network newsroom outside of London as head of news at BBC 5 Live.

There she set a distinctive and creative current affairs agenda, overseeing the station’s news output, including political and business programming as well as a 24/7 breaking news operation. She commissioned an award-winning audio slate, including Brexitcast, You, Me and the Big C, The Sista Collective, and Hope High, which went onto win an Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils.

Rozina also launched the DigiHub for the BBC World Service, developing and innovating global journalism for digital, social, and online platforms across multiple geographies including Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Americas, and Europe and growing BBC News’s digital footprint across the world.

She has a reputation for multi-platform collaboration, innovation, and commissioning through a diverse lens.

Richard Logan

Richard Logan is committed to making a difference through innovative work in both the non-profit and commercial worlds. In addition to his twenty-five years as a founding executive with a UK-based Mac software company, Richard has been a hands-on funder/participant in projects across a wide range of disciplines worldwide. His efforts range from language and archival preservation to bettering outcomes for underserved schoolchildren to advancing independent media of all kinds – radio, film, print, and more.

Coming to philanthropy with healthy skepticism and sharp business acumen, he is tireless in his efforts to increase the viability of the foundation’s many grant recipients; constantly evaluating grantee enterprises to discover new synergies, and often leveraging the pursuits of several seemingly disparate partners.

A champion of investigative journalism and independent media, Richard believes that our very survival is directly linked to our ability to preserve, protect and promote free speech, and fearlessly report of the truth. In a world where today’s mantras are greed and self-absorption, Richard and the Logan Foundation are dedicated to disrupting the status quo by supporting the work of uncompromising journalists, artists, academics and community leaders.

Known for his charm and smiling disposition, Richard is also a believer in deep due diligence, innovative grant making, betting on the jockey (not the horse) as well as the curative powers of curry.

Leslie Savickas

Leslie M. Savickas joined the Logan Foundation’s board over ten years ago bringing to it the benefit of her long experience in a variety of financial roles in both the public and private sectors. A Chicago native, she has served as a corporate treasurer, commercial lender, and financial controller and has managed accounting, corporate finance, financial marketing, and investment functions.

She has also served on charitable and civic boards and commissions. Her undergraduate degree in French was earned at DePaul University; her M.B.A., at Loyola University in Chicago; and a C.P.A. credential, from the State of Illinois. Leslie looks forward to continuing to contribute to the important work of achieving the foundation’s mission.

Jamyle Cannon

Jamyle Cannon is the Executive Director and Founder at The Bloc. He is the 2009 National Collegiate Boxing Champion and a Teach for America Alumni member. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Kentucky and a Masters in Education from Arizona State University. In 2016, after building a popular boxing program in his classroom, Cannon combined his love for youth development, boxing, and education to form The Bloc.

He has been recognized as as a CNN Hero, a 4-Star Chicagoan by Windy City Live, an Economic Game Changer by the New Covenant Community Development Corporation, profiled as one of the Hardest Working Voices in Sports by Chicago Sun-Times, and awarded the Rich O’Leary Community Sports Award at Notre Dame University. Jamyle was named the 2022 Luminary Award Winner, and is generally considered by the fighters in The Bloc to be the baddest man alive.

He has sincere plans to transform the after school landscape of Chicago’s West Side and provide community-building resources to his neighbors. He will continue to be a central figure in the Leaders of Color Collective, a Foundation initiative.

Jennifer Kim-Matsuzawa

Jennifer Kim-Matsuzawa is the Chief of Staff & Strategy at League One Volleyball as well as an Advisor and Investor in seed to Series A stage companies and high-impact organizations. She is formerly the President and Artistic Director of The People’s Music School, as well as a Principal and Global Director at global consultancy Bain & Company.  

Under Jennifer’s leadership, The People’s Music School overcame a catastrophic deficit to grow exponentially into an emergent national footprint, recognized by Carnegie Hall, Billboard Magazine, ABC News and many more. Acclaimed collaborations include Yo-Yo Ma, Wilco, Smashing Pumpkins, Esperanza Spalding, and many other civic and community organizations.

Prior to People’s, Jennifer spent over a decade at Bain & Company across the firm’s Seoul, Tokyo, Chicago and New York offices. As Global Director of Strategy, she helped to develop and commercialize new IP resulting in the publication of two books by Harvard Business Review Press. In her client work, Jennifer advised Fortune 500 companies and private equity firms in consumer-facing industries.

Jennifer is a graduate of Northwestern University (B.A. honors), Harvard University (M.Ed.) and Stanford Graduate School of Business (Exec. MBA). She is also an accomplished pianist, with performances and honors across the US and Europe. Jennifer will be available on occasion to offer advice and counsel.