After spending 11 years at Alphawood, Lipetz became president and CEO of the Executive Services Corps of Chicago. She also did consulting at her own firm.[2]
Lipetz died September 11, 2018, at the age of 71 at her home in Evanston, Illinois, that she shared with her wife, Lynda Crawford. The cause of death was cancer.[1]
Lipetz was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 2009[3] because of her “leadership, energy, passion, and vision for Chicago’s LGBT community and the institutions affiliated with it, especially for her work with the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, the WPWR-TV Channel 50 Foundation, and Center on Halsted.”[1]
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