Leadership Team

Jeremy Rose
President
jrose@chicagoyrs.com

Jeremy was born and lived in the Western Suburb of Carol Stream before moving to Chicago in 2003 where he attended school at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to becoming President Jeremy served as the CYR’s Political Director.

He has worked as staff on numerous statewide campaigns including, Jack Ryan for U.S. Senate, Steve Rauschenberger for Governor and Ron Gidwitz for Governor. In addition to his state wide campaign experience, Jeremy has worked for the United Republican Fund and held the position of Executive Director for the Illinois College Republican Federation. He currently works for the Cook County Republican Party as the Political Director.

Jeremy is active with his former high school through the Junior Statesman Foundation and mentors high school students interested in politics. He has a passion for exploring Chicago and enjoys the summers and beach volleyball.

Laura Kotelman
Vice President
lkotelman@chicagoyrs.com

Laura was born and raised in the Chicago area and has lived in the Lakeview neighborhood for 10 years.  She previously served as the CYRs' Communications Director.

Laura has a B.A. in Political Science and Spanish from Lake Forest College where she was the College Republicans chapter president for two terms. After a year with the Illinois State Senate Republican staff, she attended the University of Illinois College of Law where she was elected to the University Senate.  After law school, Laura worked for Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan in the Policy and Program Development Unit. She left the AG's office to work in state government relations for a major insurance trade association.  Laura currently is a practice development manager for the Global Insurance and Financial Services Group at one of the world's largest law firms.

Laura is also on the executive committee of Central Lakeview Neighbors and on the Board of the Chicago Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society.

Arthur Gollwitzer III
Treasurer
agollwitzer@mac.com

Arthur was elected Treasurer of the Chicago Young Republicans in 2008.  He also is a member of the Chicago Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society.  From 2004 through 2006, Arthur served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York where he was the lead prosecutor in criminal trials and argued federal criminal appeals on behalf of the United States of America. 

In 2006, Arthur returned home to Chicago and joined the law firm of Michael, Best & Friedrich LLP as a partner in the firm's the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group. He also is a member of his firm's white collar criminal defense and corporate investigations group. In 2007, Chicago Law Bulletin Publishing Company named Mr. Gollwitzer one of its 40 Under 40 attorneys to watch.

Arthur hails from Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.  He graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Economics and has a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Rachel Moguel
Secretary
rmoguel@chicagoyrs.com

Rachel graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May of 2007 with a double major in Political Science and Sociology. She is currently in her third year of law school at DePaul University College of Law.  For the past four years she has been working in the field of immigration law and plans on continuing her career in immigration law upon graduation in 2010.

Kyle Stone
Membership Director
kstone@chicagoyrs.com

A Michigan native, Kyle graduated from the University of Michigan in 2005 with high honors in History, and earned his law degree from Loyola School of Law in 2008.

Now a practicing lawyer in Chicago, Kyle defends doctors and hospitals at a downtown medical malpractice defense firm.  Formerly, he worked for the City of Chicago Law Department prosecuting in its Municipal Prosecutions Division. With a passion for anything political, Kyle serves as Membership Director and enjoys working to expand this impressive collection of Chicago YRs. 

Aside from the Chicago YRs, Kyle also serves as a youth coordinator for the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) in Chicago, and on the Candidates Committee for CityPAC, a pro-Israel political action committee dedicated to strengthening the U.S.-Israel relationship.   

To read some of Kyle's articles, check out his contributions to American Spectator,American Thinker, and Fresh Conservative.

Kyle is an avid sports fan, especially his beloved Michigan and Detroit teams. He also enjoys reading and writing about history and, quite naturally, politics. One day he hopes to run for public office.

Angel Garcia
Political Director
angeldgarcia@gmail.com

Angel has worked on numerous local, state and national campaigns. In addition to his work with the Chicago Young Republicans, Angel also has served as President of The John Marshall Law School Federalist Society and Chairman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly of Cook County. Angel has also been a political commentator for NBC Telemundo where he advocated the GOP position against a number of elected Democrats.

Angel has a J.D. from The John Marshall Law School and is an MBA candidate.  He currently works as a white collar crime investigator.  Angel is a lifelong Chicago resident.

Corrine Williams
Communications Director
cwilliams@chicagoyrs.com

Corrine received a B.A. in Political Science with minors in German and Women's Studies from the University of Miami in Florida. While at Miami, Corrine served as the Vice President and Co-Founding Board Member of the Miami Chapter of the College Republicans and Delegate to the College Republican National Convention.

She has a Masters Degree in Public Policy with a concentration in Health Policy from George Washington University where she received the Wollcott Fellowship Award and National Federation of Republican Women's Pathfinder Scholarship. Corrine worked for Congressman John Shadegg, Congressman Adam H. Putnam, and House Republican Leadership.

In June of 2008 Corrine moved to Chicago where she works in politics and policy analysis. She is originally from Urbana Illinois, where her family still resides.

Jacqueline DeFoe
Events Director
jdefoe@chicagoyrs.com

Jacqueline grew up in a small town in Wisconsin and moved to Chicago for graduate school. She graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from Marquette University in 2006 and received the American Institute of Chemists Student Award. Jacqueline is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Chicago, where she received her M.S. in Chemistry in 2007. In 2008, the U. of C. Department of Chemistry awarded her the Joan Shiu Award for Student Service. During the 2008 presidential campaign, she represented the McCain campaign during a science policy forum at Northwestern University.

Currently, Jacqueline is the chair of the activities committee for the U. of C. Graduate Council, a regular volunteer for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana and a tutor for students of General and Organic Chemistry

Eric Di Silvestro
College Outreach Director
edisilvestro@chicagoyrs.com

Eric was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburbs of Mt. Prospect and Palatine before attending the University of llinois in Champaign. He majored in Political Science and Italian and obtained his commercial pilots license while pole vaulting for the track team. He currently works at his family business at O'Hare Airport running a parking lot.

Wayne Heusel
Comptroller
wheusel@aol.com

Wayne grew up in Normal, IL and earned undergraduate degrees in Economics and Political Science from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. During college Wayne was active in his fraternity, served on the Student Senate, and also interned for the U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C. Wayne earned his MBA in Financial Management from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA in 2006.

Wayne lives in downtown Chicago and serves on his condominium board of directors. He works as a Corporate Finance Consultant.
 

Katy Keich
Technology Director
kkeich@chicagoyrs.com

Katy was raised in a politically active family in St. Louis (Go Cards!), where she practiced passing out literature at polls even before she was of legal voting age.

She received her B.A. in English from Hope College in Holland, Mich., and is rather bemused and amused to find herself technology director of anything. She is currently pursuing a master's in Information Architecture from the Illinois Insitute of Technology, and works full time for an Internet company. She has lived in Chicago for over 12 years (!), and currently resides in Roscoe Village. She blogs infrequently at www.conservativecabal.com.