The Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS) has selected Kiara R. Schuh, CPA, as the recipient of its 2023 Young Professionals Leadership Award. This award recognizes a certified public accountant (CPA), under age 35, who has demonstrated outstanding leadership skills in their career, in public or community service, and through involvement in professional organizations.

Schuh is a risk and financial advisory senior consultant with Deloitte LLP where she also co-leads the firm’s Chicago Social Impact Community (SoCom), a team of 22 practitioners seeking to create social impact through skills-based volunteering programs. Schuh was recently selected to represent Deloitte at the 2022 Out & Equal Conference, which brought together LGBTQ+ community members and allies to gain knowledge on the most pressing challenges and opportunities in LGBTQ+ workforce equity, inclusion, and belonging. She is also an advocate with Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Cook County, an organization that advances advocacy for foster care children and aids in transitioning foster care youth into permanent homes.

Further, Schuh authored “Chosen Family,” a book that explores her life as a donor-conceived child raised by a single mother by choice and challenges modern stereotypes and social narratives about “non-traditional” families.