Tom Ayers served as a trustee of the Erikson Institute. The Institute distributed $46,025 in Northern Trust scholarships. At the time, the Erickson Institute Board of Trustees also included Ayers' convicted felon daughter-in-law, Bernadine Dohrn Ayers. In addition, the Institute's co-founder, Barbara Bowman, is the mother of close Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett.
Jarrett's mother, Barbara Taylor Bowman (pictured kissing Barack) was on a Board with the father of another notorious figure according to Loudon, (Bill Ayers father)