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About the 20 most inspring chicagoans The Honorees in alphabetical order
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Aleta Clark Bryan Cressey David Dietz Seth El-Jamal Dr. Ngozi Ezike Matthew Hoffman Adam Hollingsworth Ella Jenkins Tonika Johnson Kristi Katz Diane Latiker Ed Marszewski Lamell McMorris Dr. Izabel Olson Julian Posada Chris Redd OLATUNJI OBOI Reed Britney Robbins Jesse Teverbaugh LaSaia Wade Playground
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treetWise is proud to announce its 20 Most Inspiring Chicagoans of 2020. Our third annual group of honorees includes an inspiring group of Chicagoans who are making the city a better place to live, work, and grow. StreetWise is a street paper and impact organization that empowers people to work with dignity, while giving the homeless and at-risk populations a hand up. "Honoring the everyday heroes among us who are making our amazing city even stronger, is so important, especially during these challenging and unprecedented times.� says Julie Youngquist, StreetWise Executive Director. “We received hundreds of nominations that show what we all already know--- Chicagoans put to work the generosity of our hearts and minds. Our 20 honorees of 2020 represent a wide variety of courageous people who selflessly work on behalf of others and represent the philanthropic spirit of the city."
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The 20 Most Inspiring Chicagoans Award celebrates those who champion and empower our neighbors each day, many of whom are disenfranchised and without hope. We found true catalysts for change during this process, much like StreetWise Magazine has been a catalyst for change for more than 28 years. We look forward to recognizing these individuals at our virtual StreetWise Gala Celebration and we appreciate the positive difference they are making in our city and surrounding communities.
The 20 Most Inspiring Chicagoans will be honored during our Virtual StreetWise Fundraising Gala Presented by the Kadens Family Foundation on October 1 at 6 p.m. To register for the FREE event, visit: www.streetwise.org/gala
Aleta Clark Aleta Clark, known as Englewood Barbie, founder of Hugs No Slugs, developed the initiative to promote nonviolence in underprivileged neighborhoods on Chicago’s South Side. The foundation was created in light of the fatal shooting of Tyshawn Lee, the young 9-year-old victim of a targeted shooting; Clark desired a haven for the children of Englewood. As a resident, Clark continues to serve those in need. In order to finance the foundation, she sells “Hugs No Slugs” T-shirts to raise money to help those who are victims of violence and poverty. The Back To School drive is just one of many events that Clark creates to bring unity to the Englewood area. She has created a Black History Month talent show, a Celebrity Basketball game, and other family-oriented events. As the Back To School event gears up, Clark is giving each student the gift of pampering and fun while providing continuous support through the duration of the school year.
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Bryan Cressey Bryan Cressey is founder of Above and Beyond Recovery Center, an innovative addiction treatment facility in Chicago providing transformative services to the homeless and uninsured who would otherwise have no access to treatment. Above and Beyond employs evidence-based techniques, encouraging its clients to see the consequences of their behavior as something they can change by changing their beliefs about their lives—often complicated with challenging circumstances of poverty, homelessness, abuse, and addiction. Only four years old, Above and Beyond has been named as one of the best three addiction treatment centers in Chicago. Cressey is also the co-founder of Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner; Thoma Cressey Bravo; and Cressey & Company. He also co-founded Frist Cressey Ventures with longtime friend and business partner, U.S. Senator Bill Frist.
David Dietz David Dietz, Social Responsibility Program Director at National Basketball Association (NBA). David is based in Chicago and responsible for developing and executing partnerships and initiatives for community impact on behalf of the NBA. He was instrumental in the NBA’s community projects that took place during the February 2020 NBA All-Star weekend in Chicago. One such project, in partnership with YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, benefited the Woodlawnbased Emmett Till Fine and Performing Arts Magnet School. The NBA helped refresh the gymnasium, and created both a Peace and Mindfulness Room and a Community Engagement Room. Through Dietz’s leadership, the NBA created a lasting impact for this school and the surrounding community.
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Seth El-Jamal Seth El-Jamal is program director for the Chicago chapter of Friends of the Children, which aims to break the cycle of poverty by mentoring at-risk kids on Chicago’s West Side. Seth joined Friends of the Children – Chicago in 2018, bringing nearly 20 years of experience in Youth Development. After graduating from University of Illinois with his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Seth began working with youth, creating safe, valid, and productive mentoring and youth development programs within Chicago’s underserved communities. In 2011, after completing his Master of Arts in Human Services, Seth transitioned from case management and after-school program management to community outreach and program development. During his time at Friends, Seth has worked to implement the Friends Program Model within the Chicago Chapter and to build connections within the Austin and North Lawndale communities.
Dr. Ngozi Ezike
Dr. Ngozi Ezike is a board-certified internist and pediatrician who joined the Illinois Department of Public Health from Cook County Health, where she has served for more than 15 years promoting the organization's mission of delivering integrated health services with dignity and respect, regardless of a patientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to pay. She has been a leading voice in Illinois regarding COVID-19 and containing the pandemic. She has delivered inpatient care at Stroger Hospital as well as primary and preventive care in community and schoolbased clinics. As Medical Director for the Austin Health Center, located on the West Side of Chicago, she engaged with the community through health initiatives involving obesity, diabetes, and breastfeeding. In her last role with Cook County Health, she served as Medical Director at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center, the largest single site juvenile detention facility in the country. Dr. Ezike is a national policy advisor on juvenile correctional health topics and has presented at numerous local and national conferences. PAGE 7 >
Matthew Hoffman
Matthew Hoffman is a Chicago-based artist & designer whose public works have been exhibited internationally. His work has been included in Good, the New York Times Magazine, and Ready Made. He has been published by Gestalten, Droog, and Taschen, and was featured in a segment on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Matthew has created large-scale public installations for the City of Chicago, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Albright Knox Gallery, as well as companies like Apple, Facebook, Zappos, & Cards Against Humanity. There are close to 30 of his outdoor installations currently up in the Chicagoland area. Matthew is the custodian of You Are Beautiful (YAB), a project to better the world in little ways. Its message has reached every corner of the globe, with over 5 million YAB stickers shared. Outside of large public works, YAB creates art & design edition objects available directly through the YAB online shop and the Avondale storefront, as well as museum stores such as LACMA, MASS MoCA, and UncommonGoods.
Adam Hollingsworth Adam Hollingsworth, Dreadhead Cowboy. Adam owns five horses in Will County, which he brings into the city for horseback riding lessons and casual introductions throughout Chicago communities, particularly communities of disproportionately low-income Black and Brown residents. He brings joy and awareness to children who have not had a chance to see a horse unless it was ridden by a Chicago Police officer. Adam is passionate about bringing the farm to the City. He also sees his role as a calming influence on protests in Chicago and Minneapolis.
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Ella Jenkins
Ella Jenkins, “First Lady of Children’s Music," is an iconic children’s performer, and has been one of the genre’s leading voices for more than 50 years. Nurtured by the rich musical culture of her Chicago neighborhood, Jenkins was immersed in song from her earliest days. Jenkins developed her talents working with children as a child psychology student at San Francisco State University and as a program director at the YWCA before hosting a public television program for children called “This is Rhythm.” Ella's music incorporates languages and cultures from around the world, including the African American blues and gospel music she heard during her own childhood. Ella is one of few artists to have recorded both for Smithsonian Folkways and for Moses Asch’s original Folkways label, and has enjoyed a prolific career characterized by genuine love and appreciation for the minds and hearts of children. In 2004, she was honored by the Recording Academy with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Tonika Johnson
Tonika Johnson is a social justice artist and photographer. In 2010, she co-founded Resident Association of Greater Englewood (RAGE), whose mission is to “mobilize people and resources to force positive change in Englewood through solution-based approaches." Her work has been featured in galleries accross the city, and Chicago Magazine named her a 2017 Chicagoan of the Year. Her current ongoing project, Folded Map, visually investigates disparities among Chicago residents while bringing them together to have a conversation. The project transformed into an advocacy and policy-influencing tool that invites audiences to open a dialogue and question how we are all socially impacted by racial and institutional conditions that segregate the city. In 2019, she was named one of Field Foundation’s Leaders for a New Chicago, and she was appointed as a member of the Cultural Advisory Council of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events by the Chicago City Council.
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Kristi Katz Kristi Katz is Chicago Director of Field Operations with Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen (WCK). During the pandemic, she sourced, coordinated, and onboarded local restaurants for preparation and delivery of over 250,000 meals to frontline workers, senior and community organizations, and families facing food insecurity in Chicago’s West and South Sides. WCK restaurants (neighborhood restaurants as well as Chicago institutions like Gibsons) prepare high-quality, nutritious meals in response to the hunger crisis furthered by the pandemic, while enabling these restaurants to maintain employment for their workers. StreetWise, YWCA, and many community organizations are the wonderful recipients of this food program. Katz is currently serving as Director of Business Development for Consero Group, where she brings senior executives together to build relationships and gain insights through unique intimate in-person learning opportunities.
Diane Latiker Diane Latiker is founder Kids Off The Block, Inc. and mother of eight children. “Ms. Diane,” as the children refer to her, is a 32-year resident of the Roseland community on the far South Side of Chicago. She founded the award-winning and internationally recognized organization Kids Off The Block, Inc. (KOB) in her home in July 2003. Ms. Diane believed that she could make a difference in the community, and for the many youth that she came in contact with daily. She became encouraged and opened up her home to get these young people off the streets and involved in programs that would benefit them for the rest of their lives. The organization celebrated 16 years of service to children/youth, teens and young adults. KOB started out with 10 neighborhood kids, and now has impacted thousands of lives through love, compassion, nurturing and respect.
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Ed Marszewski
Ed Marszewski is a restaurateur, entrepreneur, cultural connoisseur, and unofficial "Mayor of Bridgeport." Professionally, Ed is the Director of the Public Media Institute (PMI), which publishes Lumpen Magazine, Mash Tun Journal, the Quarantine Times, and launched the radio station, Lumpen Radio on 105.5 FM. PMI also programs and facilitates the long-running experimental cultural center, Co-Prosperity, based in Bridgeport, The Community of the Future. Ed is also the co-founder of Version Festival, Select Media Festival, the MDW Fair and other arts and community projects, as well as co-founder of Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar, Kimski, Marz Community Brewing Co., and the recently opened Pizza Fried Chicken Ice Cream. Ed also recently launched the Community Kitchen, which prepares 1,000 hot lunches a week for residents of Chicago. Forthcoming projects include Buddy in the City of Chicago’s Cultural Center, and a new Marz nano brewery in Bucktown / Logan Square.
Lamell McMorris Lamell McMorris is founder and managing principal of Greenlining Realty USA, a comprehensive urban property redevelopment firm launched in West Woodlawn. Dedicated to reversing the historic effect of redlining in low-income communities through developing quality housing and vibrant commercial corridors, Greenlining creates pathways to capital essential for neighborhood investment, redevelopment, housing rehabilitation, and home improvement. McMorris also serves as CEO of Phase 2 Consulting, with the mission to help successful clients navigate their enterprises into greater good. McMorris also serves as a member of numerous nonprofit and college boards, and volunteers with youth-focused organizations. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Society from Morehouse College, a Master of Divinity in Social Ethics and Public Policy from Princeton Theological Seminary, and an Honorary Doctorate from Saint Augustine’s University.
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Dr. Izabel Olson Dr. Izabel Olson is founder and CEO of Salt and Light Coalition, a grassroots organization breaking the cycle of human trafficking through mind-body restoration and workforce development. Dr. Olson is dedicated to the empowerment of women, especially survivors of human trafficking, as they reframe their traumatic experiences and find success in the workplace and throughout society. Prior to establishing Salt and Light Coalition, Dr. Olson was a researcher at Northwestern University, where she earned her Ph.D. in the Learning Sciences. Olson has also earned an MA in the Learning Sciences, an MEd in International Education, a BA in Pedagogy, and a BA in Linguistics. Dr. Olson’s passion for holistic self-care combined with her robust academic training in cognitive science give her the unique ability to positively impact women’s lives in a multifaceted way. In 2017, Dr. Olson was awarded the Illinois Secretary of State’s Latina Humanitarian Achievement Award.
Julian Posada Julian Posada is founder and President of LiftUp enterprises, a for-profit holding company that focuses on both economic and social outcomes, and that accelerates the stability and mobility of individuals in low-income communities. Most recently he was COO of The Resurection Project, where he focused on core operations including Marketing, Community Ownership, IT, and Property Management. Returning to publishing, Julian served as EVP of Marketing and Strategy for Chicago Sun-Times and Co- Publisher of the Chicago Reader, helping run several departments and initiatives. Earlier in his career, he was the President and CEO of the Chicago Fire Soccer Club. He was responsible for the day-to-day operations, serving as the top Fire business executive leading the strategic planning and overall management of the club.
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Chris redd
Redd is an actor, writer, stand-up comic and rapper and is returning to "Saturday Night Live" for his fourth season. He received an Emmy Award in 2018 for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics and appeared in the 2016 film “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping,” and opposite Kathy Bates in the Netflix original comedy series “Disjointed.” In 2019 he released his debut standup album, “But Here We Are.” Redd also starred in the cult classic series “Wet Hot American Summer” and was featured in NBC’s “Will & Grace,” Netflix’s “Love,” and Comedy Central’s “Detroiters.” Redd was previously a performer at Chicago’s Second City and has been deeply involved in giving back to the community by helping to raise millions for charity, performing in the 24-hour Letters to Santa Benefit, The Anthony Rizzo Laugh-Off For Cancer, The Chris Redd & Friends Charity Concert, and through the COVID-19 Protest Relief Fund that he founded. Chris is also on the board of directors of Poverty Alleviation Chicago.
Olatunji Oboi reed Oboi Reed is founding President & CEO of Equiticity, a racial equity movement, programming and advocating for racial equity, increased mobility, and racial justice to improve the lives of Black and Brown people across the United States. He works globally as a racial equity tactician, increased mobility advocate, and racial justice activist. With an extensive background in both nonprofit management and corporate social responsibility, he is most proud of his work to create a diverse coalition of people, organizations and businesses, all working together to achieve racial equity and mobility justice across the city of Chicago. Oboi co-founded and recently served as the President & CEO of the Slow Roll Chicago bicycle movement. Slow Roll Chicago is working to build an equitable, diverse, and inclusive bicycle culture in Chicago by organizing community bicycle rides and advocating for bicycle equity.
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Britney Robbins Britney Robbins is founder The Gray Matter Experience, a nonprofit dedicated to unlocking the self-determining power of Black youth and strengthening their ties to community through real world experience in entrepreneurship that has served over 300 Chicago youth in its mission. Britney is a serial social entrepreneur who loves innovation, forward thinking and who is constantly identifying problems that can be solved through business creation. She's been active in Chicago's entrepreneurship and tech community for the past seven years with some of Chicago's top venture capital firms and incubators, including Sandbox Industries, Lightbank and 1871. Britney is passionate about improving the well-being of Black communities and is focused on providing quality resources, more direct access and education to see that vision made reality.
Jesse Teverbaugh
Jesse Teverbaugh is director of student and alumni affairs at Cara, which helps men and women affected by poverty to get and keep good jobs, and in the process, hope and self-esteem. A 17-year Cara veteran, Teverbaugh oversees the learning experience for Cara’s 1,500 candidates annually in their journey to employment. A graduate of Cara himself, he has worked as a trainer and as a director in Cara’s flagship social enterprise, Cleanslate. Teverbaugh often shares his perspective on the power of transformation, the role of mental health in Cara’s work, and the effects of incarceration, with The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and others. He was featured in The Reader as a Chicagoan to Know and was the 2011 National Association for MultiEthnicity in Communications (NAMIC) Unsung Hero. He is past president of the Greater Roseland Chamber of Commerce and has served on the advisory board for the business administration program at MacCormac College.
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LaSaia Wade LaSaia Wade is the founder and Executive Director of Brave Space Alliance. An open Afro-Puerto Rican Indigenous Trans Woman, LaSaia is the founder of the Tennessee Transgender Justice Project (TNTJ). She is also a member of Chicago’s Trans Gender Nonconforming Collective (TGNC). She was the central organizer for the Trans Liberation Protest Chicago, the largest march for trans rights in Midwest history, and is the first Trans woman in Illinois history to be honored in Women’s History Month. She graduated from Murfreesboro Tennessee State in 2012 with an MBA in Business Management and has 10-plus years experience in organizing and advocacy work with Black, Indigenous, Trans and gender-nonconforming people around the world. LaSaia is the owner of Mystical Bee Hive in Chicago.
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