Leadership Greater Chicago Names New CEO

Chicago, Ill. – Leadership Greater Chicago (LGC) has named Myetie Hamilton the next Chief Executive Officer of the region’s premier civic leadership development organization, effective July 24, 2023. The LGC Search Committee, comprised of board members and Fellows, led a rigorous national search in partnership with Koya Partners, a search firm that specializes in placing CEOs in mission-driven roles. Myetie, a proud LGC Fellow since 2016, will step into the CEO position as the first Black American woman to lead the organization.

“Myetie is a purpose-driven leader of high integrity and possesses the visionary leadership to achieve the next level of impact for LGC,” said Michelle Stohlmeyer Russell, Ph.D., Board Chair,

Leadership Greater Chicago. “Her deep insight into Chicago and its diverse neighborhoods, and commitment to creating equity in all spaces, will only strengthen LGC and our programming. I am excited about the future of LGC with Myetie as our leader.”

Myetie brings more than 25 years of experience in Chicago’s education and public sectors. Most recently, she served as senior vice president and executive director of City Year Chicago where she led the largest site of AmeriCorps members across the national organization and was responsible for securing corporate funding and partnerships. In February 2022, she was elected president of the Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners where she has committed to increasing access for Chicago’s children and families to the more than 600 city parks and green spaces and programming in underserved communities. Myetie is also a Commissioner for the Public Building Commission of Chicago.

“I am deeply honored and beyond excited to lead LGC, a well-established and highly-regarded organization. The deeply rooted relationships I have developed since my experience in the LGC Fellows Program now come full circle,” explains Myetie Hamilton. “When you have the power of the Fellows behind you, as well as the city, we can lead transformational change together for the Greater Chicago Region. I look forward to working with our amazing board, alumni, sponsors and current year Fellows to create an experience in the exploration of civic leadership that will position LGC for its next edge of elevation.” brought her experiences, passion and commitment to her many roles in education and nonprofit leadership. Prior to her tenure at City Year Chicago, she was the executive director of EPIC Academy, a public, open-enrollment charter high school on the far Southeast Side of Chicago where she led organizational strategy and vision, fundraising and external relations and board engagement.

She also served in numerous leadership positions for CPS, including chief of school business services and deputy chief of schools for Network 9 where she managed transformative efforts for 28 schools in Chicago’s Woodlawn, Bronzeville and Hyde Park communities.

Myetie serves as vice-chair for the Provident Foundation and as a board member for the Museum of Science and Industry and The Field Museum. Myetie has been acknowledged by Crain’s Chicago Business as a Notable Leader in Community Development, by lifestyle media outlet Make It Better as one of Chicago’s 38 Top Black Women of Impact and was a 2018 recipient of the Chicago Defender Women of Excellence Award. She earned a bachelor’s degree in business management from Alabama A&M University and a master’s degree in public administration from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Myetie lives in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago with her husband and twin daughters.

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Throughout her career, Myetie has been a driver of equity and innovation in education. Raised on Chicago’s South Side and having attended Chicago Public Schools (CPS) schools, Myetie has

She joins LGC as the organization celebrates the 40th anniversary of its founding by The Chicago Community Trust. Since becoming an LGC Fellow in 2016, Myetie remains actively involved as a subject matter expert in the LGC School of Deans where she consults on the Signature Fellows Program curriculum.

Myetie succeeds Maria Wynne after nine years of leadership.

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his storied career. Mazzola also conducts two performances of Mozart’s Requiem, a beloved masterpiece that puts the Lyric Opera Chorus and Orchestra center stage.

Other classics in the season include Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment, one of opera’s most delightful comedies which is back on the Lyric stage for the first time in 50 years; Janáček’s Jen fa, an intense drama conducted by Jakub Hr ša, the music director designate of London’s Royal Opera House; and Rossini’s Cinderella, the witty and heartwarming comedy based on the familiar fairy tale, but with a few new twists.

To commemorate the 2023/24 Season, musical theater’s biggest star will headline Lyric’s Season Opening Gala: An Evening with Audra McDonald.

For a free preview of the energy Mazzola will bring to the 2023/24 Season, and to hear artists from The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center sing selections from the new season, come to Sunday in the Park with Lyric on Sunday, August 20, 2023, at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.

For more information about Lyric’s 2023/24 Season and to purchase tickets, visit lyricopera.org.

Hunter Invites Public To Attend

Legislative Budget Town Hall

To share important legislative and state budget updates, State Senator Mattie Hunter is holding a town hall on June 28 with State Representatives Kim du Buclet and Sonya Harper.

“This meeting will offer important updates on funding and legislation that impacts those in our community,” said Hunter (D-Chicago). “I invite everyone to come out and meet me and Representatives du Buclet and Harper and take part in a productive discussion.”

The town hall will be held Wednesday, June 28 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Insight Hospital in the Great Room on the 12th floor. Attendees should enter through the hospital’s main entrance at 2524 S. Prairie Ave., Chicago.

The event is free and open to the public with light refreshments served. Registration is encouraged by calling Senator Hunter’s district office at 312-949-1908.

ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL JOINS LANDMARK FTC LAWSUIT CHALLENGING ‘DANGEROUS’ PHARMACEUTICAL MERGER

Attorney General Kwame Raoul today joined the Biden administration and five attorneys general in a legal effort to block Amgen, one of the world’s largest biopharmaceutical drug companies, from purchasing Horizon Therapeutics (Horizon). In challenging the $28 billion purchase, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges that the proposed acquisition raises significant anticompetitive concerns.

“This proposed pharmaceutical merger would allow Amgen to monopolize the market for certain crucial medications and reduce affordability, access and choice of drugs for vulnerable patients in Illinois,” Raoul said. “Preserving competition within the pharmaceutical industry is essential to improving access and affordability, and I will continue to partner with other attorneys general to stop the concerning increase in consolidations that raise health care costs for patients.”

Horizon specializes in manufacturing medications for rare and often severe autoimmune diseases. Two of its main drugs are Tepezza, the only FDA-approved treatment for thyroid eye disease, and Krystexxa, the only FDA-approved treatment for chronic refractory gout. Over the next few years, competing companies are expected to introduce new medications that could be strong market competitors for Krystexxa and Tepezza. For patients, the new medications could be safer, more affordable, more durable, and better at preventing debilitating disability.

The lawsuit filed by Raoul and the FTC seeks an order to prevent finalization of the acquisition because Amgen’s proposed acquisition of Horizon likely violates the Clayton Act. If the acquisition were allowed to proceed, the newly-consolidated company would be free to muscle out competitors from the market for autoimmune disease medications. If it takes over Horizon, Amgen could leverage its market power to negotiate with insurers and pharmaceutical benefit managers for preferred or even exclusive access for Tepezza and Krystexxa on health plans – in effect, making it potentially impossible for new, more affordable medications to reach patients.

Amgen’s history of leveraging its existing market power and bundling its drugs to exclude competitors only increases this risk, which would ultimately deter other companies from researching and introducing new drugs, and reduce affordability for vulnerable patients.

Joining Attorney General Raoul in this lawsuit are attorneys general from California, New York, Minnesota, Washington and Wisconsin.