Guest Speaker:
The Reverend Dr. Richard Tolliver

The Rev. Dr. Richard L. Tolliver has five earned degrees, including a Ph.D. from Howard University and is a graduate of The Advanced Management Development Program (AMDP) in Real Estate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has served parishes in Harlem, Boston, Washington, D.C. and retired as rector of St. Edmund’s Church, Chicago, on June 30, 2017 after twenty-eight years.

In March 1990, Dr. Tolliver founded the St. Edmund’s Redevelopment Corporation (SERC), a not-for-profit community development corporation devoted to revitalizing the housing stock of Chicago’s Washington Park neighborhood. To date, SERC has constructed or renovated over 734 units of housing located in 31 buildings at a cost of over $106 million.

In March 2011, then Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel appointed Dr. Tolliver to his transition Team where he served on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He was also appointed to the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, the Low Income Housing Trust Fund and the Chicago Development Fund (CDF), a non-profit affiliate of the City of Chicago that invests in Chicago communities using New Markets Tax Credit financing. Tolliver is also a board member of the Beverly Bank and Trust Company, owned by Wintrust Corporation, which has assets of over $31 billion dollars. He has served on numerous diocesan, National Episcopal Church commissions, civic and corporate boards.