The Chicago News Guild
CNG Staff
Craig Rosenbaum
Executive Director
Craig Rosenbaum has been working for the Chicago News Guild since March 1999 and has served as its Executive Director since 2011. Craig lives in Hyde Park with his wife Barbara, daughter Leah and standard poodle Lola.
Emily Steelhammer
Staff Representative
Emily Steelhammer has worked in labor as an organizer and union representative since 2008. She has organized workers across the country in a variety of industries, including: manufacturing, healthcare, higher education and nonprofits. When she's not talking to workers about building their union, Emily loves a good fiction book and exploring Chicagoland with her husband and two young daughters.
Esteban Gil
CNG Organizer
Esteban comes from a union family and for five years helped organize a NewsGuild affiliated union from the ground up at a nationally renowned nonprofit advocacy organization he was employed at. Esteban lives in New Orleans, Louisiana and enjoys live music, good food, and riding his bike--Rocinante--through the Crescent City.
Kim Leiser
CNG Bookkeeper
Kim Leiser has been involved in the Guild since beginning as a circulation clerk at The Buffalo News in 1994. She started serving on bargaining committees in 2005 and went to work full time for the Buffalo local as an Administrative Officer in 2016. A mom of three and grandmother of three, she enjoys traveling with her husband and younger children when not busy with her union brothers and sisters.