Cynthia Shawamreh

Cynthia Shawamreh practices law as a senior counsel for the City of Chicago Department of Law, Finance and Economic Development Division, where she specializes in multi-layered financing transactions designed to provide affordable housing and economic incentives to stimulate job creation.  Ms. Shawamreh received her B.A. with a double-major in History and African-American Studies from Grinnell College in 1984.  She spent 1984-85 in the Middle East on a Watson Fellowship for International Travel.  Ms. Shawamreh received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1988.  Ms. Shawamreh has served as a faculty member of the Wilmette Institute since 2006 and has taught an Introduction to Islamic Law as an adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law.  Ms. Shawamreh also serves as an appointed member of the Illinois State Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.