Our Board
Daniel Montgomery brings deep expertise in risk management, data privacy, and regulatory compliance to DJMP Institute's board — a critical foundation for any organization building AI infrastructure that touches sensitive community data. With certifications spanning cybersecurity, information privacy, and healthcare compliance, Daniel ensures that DJMP Institute's autonomous AI systems are built not only to work, but to be trusted. His experience across HIPAA, GDPR, and enterprise risk frameworks provides the governance architecture that funders, partners, and community members need to see in a responsible AI organization.
Former President of both Kennedy-King College and Olive-Harvey College within the City Colleges of Chicago system. Organizational development and management professional with deep expertise in human capital development, higher education accreditation, and innovative corporate and community partnerships. Graduate of the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School.
Principal AI/ML Specialist at Amazon Web Services, where he has worked for nearly eight years applying machine learning and generative AI at enterprise scale. Previously spent 16 years at MITRE Corporation — one of the nation's most prestigious federally funded research organizations — rising to Principal Information Systems Engineer. Erwin brings the rare combination of deep academic pedigree, federal research experience, and cutting-edge applied AI practice that gives DJMP Institute's technical claims their most credible possible foundation. His Howard University doctoral roots and AWS institutional connection — the same platform powering DJMP's MLU partnership — make him a natural fit for the organization's mission and network.
Erwin's Ph.D. from Howard University — and Martin Pieters' connection to Tuskegee through the 2026 AWS-MLU Symposium — represents a deliberate organizational thread. Two HBCU-connected AI practitioners building AI infrastructure for the communities those institutions were founded to serve. This is not incidental. It is the mission, embodied at the governance level.
Maximilian Cole brings more than a decade of frontline experience in Chicago Public Schools — as a special education teacher, administrator, and now Assistant Principal — to DJMP Institute's board. His career spans Manley Career Academy, Walter H. Dyett High School for the Arts, and his current role within CPS, where he serves as an MTSS Instructional Support Leader focused on whole-school improvement. Maximilian helped students collectively secure over $100,000 in scholarship funds and built restorative practices programs that transformed school culture. His Columbia University educational leadership training, deep roots in CPS, and commitment to students from historically marginalized communities make him an essential voice in ensuring DJMP Institute's programs connect meaningfully with the youth they are designed to serve.
Technology Advisors
DJMP Institute is supported by a distinguished group of technology advisors who bring deep domain expertise, industry credibility, and decades of hands-on experience to our programs and mission.
Retired engineer and one of Illinois's most distinguished STEM educators, Bruce Petersen has been DJMP Institute's technology champion since the earliest days of the Rainbow PUSH Saturday Academy. A holder of eight U.S. patents and the FIRST FTC (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics State Mentor for Illinois, Bruce has dedicated decades to making advanced engineering and robotics accessible to young people in communities that rarely see it. His mentorship helped shape the students who built the Stay Safe App in 2017 — and his influence runs through every robotics and hands-on engineering experience DJMP Institute delivers today. Bruce represents exactly what DJMP Institute believes: that the most transformative technology education happens when someone who has actually built things sits down with a young person and shows them how.
Stanley Chatman is a technology leader whose career spans enterprise AI, cloud architecture, and large-scale agile transformation across Microsoft, Avanade, and the City Colleges of Chicago. As Principal Technical Program Manager at Microsoft's Industry Solutions Engineering group, he served as OpenAI and Generative AI Champion — ensuring teams were proficient in the latest large language model technologies. He brings that same AI-native engineering leadership to DJMP Institute as Fractional CTO. Stanley is also Founder and CEO of CommunityInsight.AI — an AI-powered civic intelligence platform helping municipalities win grants and make data-driven decisions, built on the same federal API infrastructure that powers PathwayAI. The two organizations are design partners and cross-marketing collaborators in Chicago's civic AI ecosystem. DJMP Institute and CommunityInsight.AI share a founding vision: that AI-powered civic intelligence should serve the communities it was built to help — residents, workers, and the governments that represent them.
Board Seats In Recruitment
DJMP Institute is actively recruiting board members across the following categories. Each seat is designed to ensure our governance reflects the full scope of our mission — from technology and civic AI to legal accountability and corporate partnership.
Attorney or financial professional with nonprofit governance experience, ideally with exposure to civil rights, education law, or public sector finance.
Academic researcher or policy leader whose work spans labor economics, education equity, or the intersection of technology and social mobility.
Senior leader from the corporate or philanthropic sector with experience in workforce development, community investment, or technology access initiatives.
Community advocate, organizer, or civic leader with deep ties to the South Side Chicago communities DJMP Institute directly serves.
Interested in Serving?
DJMP Institute is building governance infrastructure that matches the ambition of our mission. If you bring relevant expertise and share our commitment to AI equity and economic opportunity for marginalized communities, we want to hear from you.
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