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For this week's Our 1871, we chat with Keith Gordon, CTO of Proxy Pics. Proxy Pics is a mobile app that allows customers or businesses to pay individuals for on-demand photos of a location or article of their choosing.

For this week's Our 1871, we chat with Shivani Jain, Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Cubii. Cubii is the original compact seated elliptical trainer for active sitting, helping users stay fit while they are at the office.

For this week's Our 1871, we chat with WiSTEM alum Rochelle Gorey, Founder SpringFour.  SpringFour brings your financial health to life by connecting customers & employees to best in class local resources, tools and financial products. 

For this week's Our 1871, we chat with 1871 mentor Ari Krzyzek, Co-Owner of digital design company Chykalophia. Chykalophia helps companies build beautiful, effective brands online and off.

For this week's Our 1871, we chat with 1871 mentor Monica Kathuria, Owner of Encircle Psychological Services. Encircle works with individuals who are navigating transitions in their lives in order to help them resolve negative feelings, communicate effectively, and push forward into their next wave of social and economic success.

For this week's Our 1871, we chat with new 1871 member Pete Lee, VP Sales, who joined LiveTiles this year to help grow the company in the U.S. with Chicago as a focus. LiveTiles gives developers and business users tools to easily create dashboards, employee portals, and corporate intranets that can be further enhanced by artificial intelligence and analytics features.

For this week's Our 1871, we chat with entrepreneur and 1871 mentor Jonathan Pritchard, Founder of Like a Mind Reader. Mentalist, magician, or simply someone who loves to understand how people tick, Jonathan helps clients use human psychology to be better communicators, more influential, more persuasive, and more successful.

For this week's Our 1871, we chat with Joel Pollick, Founder of Percent Pledge. Percent Pledge helps you donate a small percentage of your paycheck to the causes you care most about and just this week announced new partnerships with SpotHero and Feeding America!

Our 1871 is a series of articles, photos, and videos introducing you to the amazing people who power our community. Simple 1871 fact -- the people make the place. Today we chat with Davinder Kohli, Founder of XentStudios, a startup that uses virtual reality to help kitchen and bath retailers showcase their products.