James Reum is a Harvard-educated lawyer who’s enjoyed a distinguished career in senior positions with an international law firm, the national government, and nonprofit organizations, including Junior Great Books and Children’s Legal Aid. Among his favorite pursuits are sports/coaching baseball, classical and ragtime piano, French cuisine, Broadway musical theatre, and dreaming up puns and fractured fairy tales. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Christel, and is the proud father of daughter Chloé and son John.