Our Team
In Collaboration with Northwestern's Center for Food Allergy & Asthma Research, the Chicago Public Schools, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
2020's Featured Speakers
Lucy Peterson: Consortium to Lower Obesity Among Chicago Children (CLOCC)
Dion McGill: Lurie Children’s Strengthening Chicago’s Youth (SCY)
Tara Gill: Lurie Children’s Center for Childhood Resilience (CCR)
Ken Fox, MD: Chief Medical Officer, Chicago Public Schools
Aleen Bayard: Leadership coach
Amy O’Keefe: Associate Director of Northwestern’s Design Innovation Program (EDI)
Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH: Division Head, Adolescent Medicine- Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Jen Brown, MPH: Director, Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC)
Geneva Porter, MPH: Program Director, Morten Group
JJ Vulopas: Young adult advocate and author for living with food allergies
Dion McGill: Lurie Children’s Strengthening Chicago’s Youth (SCY)
Tara Gill: Lurie Children’s Center for Childhood Resilience (CCR)
Ken Fox, MD: Chief Medical Officer, Chicago Public Schools
Aleen Bayard: Leadership coach
Amy O’Keefe: Associate Director of Northwestern’s Design Innovation Program (EDI)
Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH: Division Head, Adolescent Medicine- Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Jen Brown, MPH: Director, Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC)
Geneva Porter, MPH: Program Director, Morten Group
JJ Vulopas: Young adult advocate and author for living with food allergies
2020's Group Leaders
Jennifer Hoffman MD, Audrey Brewer MD, Tarun Jain MD, Raina Gupta MD, Shariwa Oke, Ogie Ezeoke MD, Waheeda Samady MD, MSCI, Jamie Fierstein PhD, Lisa Lombard PhD, Olivia Negris MA, Ashley Dyer MPH, Alex Xiao, Isabel Galic, Jialing Jiang, Ria Das, Shannon Stanfill, Amelia Wissink, Rohan Jain, Dion McGill, Kirstin Grabski
2020's Volunteers
Pamela Newmark, Kathy Boon MPH, Avneet Chadha, Riya Jain, Alexandria Bozen, Hailey Hultquist, Frances Ho, and Students from the Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Segal Design Institute