EFE Office Updates

New Board Member Doug Kenshol Joins EFE Leadership

The new Director of Operations for The Resurrection Project, a Chicago-based community development organization, is also the latest addition to the Equip for Equality Board of Directors. Doug Kenshol brings years of entrepreneurial experience and an array of investment, strategic management and training skills to EFE.

"I hope to contribute to board recruitment of talented individuals and help leverage greater resources in the area of development," says Kenshol. "Mostly, I wish to expand EFE's impact and presence in the community."

Photo of Doug Kenshol Long devoted to community service and work on behalf of the disability community, Kenshol found himself increasingly motivated and committed to disability advocacy three years ago after his best friend and college roommate had a traumatic brain injury from which he is still undergoing rehabilitation.

"Kevin's brain injury intensifies my desire to contribute," he says. "He, along with millions of others, is a citizen of this country and is entitled to the same rights and respect as everyone else."

A former resident of Wa, Ghana, where he spent three years as a Fulbright scholar, Peace Corps volunteer and high school physics teacher, Kenshol has managed to combine business with pleasure.

His love of travel led him to Ghana, as well as on a trip around the world, three visits to Japan, and journeys to Egypt, India, Nepal, Thailand and Malaysia.

His time abroad also gave him a new perspective on his professional goals. "Living on $1,000 per year and working with people making an average of $500 per year completely changed my outlook," Kenshol explains. "I feel I need to work to create economic and social opportunities for people who haven't been blessed with the same standard of living I grew up with."

Prior to joining The Resurrection Project in March, Kenshol established and ran the Urban Enterprise Fund, which was a loan program for nonprofits. It has now merged with the Project to invest in small companies that provide jobs for former welfare recipients, ex-offenders and individuals with disabilities.

Kenshol earned a master of management degree from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management in 1999 and a master's in international education from American University in 1995. These supplement his bachelor's degrees in physics and history from Carleton College.

While at Kellogg, Kenshol received an award for the Best Public/Nonprofit Management Student and the Dean's Service Award. Also, in 1999, Carleton College presented him with the Spirit of Carleton Award, given annually to an alum whose career best demonstrates the college's missions of learning and service.

He currently resides in Wrigleyville, the northern Chicago neighborhood that is also home to the Chicago Cubs. =

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