Vice President and Executive Director, Heartland Human Care Services, Inc.

Mr. Antolín oversees Heartland's service based policy advocacy as well as program delivery including: transitional jobs (scattered site, public housing, reentry and refugee services); vocational literacy/ESL for chronically unemployed populations (including reentry); homeless prevention and supportive housing; residential services for homeless and unaccompanied youth; resettlement for immigrants and refugees; substance abuse counseling; immigration legal assistance; and counseling, safety planning, and legal services for survivors of trafficking, domestic violence, or sexual assault.

In his role within the Illinois Poverty Summit, a bi-partisan effort facilitated by Heartland Alliance, Mr. Antolín provides leadership to the steering committee as it sets its priority issues each year and guides research projects that shed light upon, and facilitate dialogue about, specific poverty-related issues and solutions.

Previously, Mr. Antolín was Director of the Division of Early Childhood and Self-Sufficiency for Catholic Charities, where he oversaw over 20 early childhood and Head Start sites and developed the initial Transitional Community Jobs programs for the hard to employ. Prior to that, he served for 8 years as Deputy Director for the Illinois Department of Public Aid developing and implementing statewide welfare, employment and child support reform policies. He began his career in 1979 as a civil rights litigator with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago and Legal Aid Society of Cleveland. Mr. Antolin is a past member of the Chicago Workforce Investment Board, Center for Economic Progress, Erie House and multiple governmental advisory committees at the federal, State and City levels.

Mr. Antolín serves as a member of several efforts focused on anti-poverty programs and policies such as the National Transitional Jobs Network, the Illinois Asset Building Group, and the United Way Chicago Council, was appointed by Mayor Richard Daley to the Chicago Committee on Urban Opportunity and the Chicago Community Development Block Grant Advisory Committee, was appointed by Governor Rod Blagojevich to the Children's Savings Account Task Force and the Latino Family Commission, and holds leadership positions with the Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Action Council, Illinois Public Health Institute, and the Chicago Jobs Council.

Mr. Antolín holds a J.D. from Columbus School of Law at Catholic University and received his Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University.