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 patient’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.
