Director
Heiji Choy Black is the founder and CEO of Jeune Otte, a sustainable clothing line for women and young women based and made in Chicago. Currently, she serves as chair of the Fashion Council at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which raises funds to provide scholarship funds to emerging stars from the Fashion Department at the SAIC.
She is an active contemporary art collector, and serves on the board of the Renaissance Society, the Arts Club of Chicago, and the acquisitions committee of the Architecture and Design Department of the Art Institute of Chicago.
She has served in many roles in the fashion industry from fashion and style editor at Chicago Magazine, to boutique owner of hejfina in Wicker Park in the early aughts and lecturer on fashion history. She graduated from Tufts University in 2000 with a BA in International Relations. Her husband and three children live in Lincoln Park.