Lightfoot will become a visiting professor at the University of Michigan

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is adding another line to her resume after working at City Hall.

Lightfoot will join the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy as a visiting professor in the fall, the school said in a news release.

The former mayor will teach a class on strategic public policy consulting with professor of public policy and sociology Jeffrey Morenoff. Lightfoot graduated from the university as an undergraduate in 1984.

Since leaving office last May, Lightfoot has held numerous positions. Last fall she taught at Harvard University and this spring at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.

Another new job for Lightfoot made headlines last week when the Dolton board overrode a veto by troubled Mayor Tiffany Henyard to hire Lightfoot as a special investigator into Henyard’s alleged corruption case.

In January, Lightfoot announced another new venture, launching a nonprofit called Chicago Vibrant Neighborhoods Collective. The organization seeks to connect community organizations working in disinvested neighborhoods with “back-end” resources such as data analytics, fundraising, budgeting and marketing.

She cited the nonprofit’s vision in a statement about her new professorship.

“We need a large cadre of consultants who share this view about the importance of community organizing and are willing to work at community tables to share their time and talents to build capacity and solve problems,” Lightfoot wrote.

In Michigan, Lightfoot will be joined by another former big-city mayor: Bill de Blasio of New York, who will return to school to continue teaching.

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