Our last name is "Collaborative", and we really can't do anything by ourselves. We hire and work with some of the best thinkers in civic innovation, helping build companies and grow the sector.
Project Consultants
Andrew Briggs
Andrew Briggs is currently the lead developer on the Chicago Health Atlas and the Chicago Early Learning Portal projects. He is an ...
Andrew Seeder
Seeder came on board in May 2014 to help with the Chicago School of Data Conference after doing some data work for ...
Angel Rodriguez
Angel currently serves as the documenter for CUTGroup. See his work on the Smart Chicago Flickr. He also served as an ...
Cathy Deng
Cathy Deng is lead developer for the Expunge.io project. We first started working with Cathy in our open office hours and via ...
David Rundell
David Rundell currently serves as the documenter for the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) Venue Licensing Toolkit Project ...
Diana Beasly
Diana Beasley of Management Synergistics helps manage our Smart Health Centers project ...
Josh Kalov
Josh Kalov of Kalov Strategies leads our Cook County Open Data project. Josh also advises Smart Chicago and several of our projects. He was a ...
Laurenellen McCann
Laurenellen McCann is leading the Experimental Modes project, focusing on needs-responsive, community-driven processes for creating technology with real people and real ...
Lindsay Muscato
Lindsay Muscato serves as the editor on Smart Chicago publications. including the CUTGroup Book, The @CivicWhitaker Anthology, and Experimental Modes. Next up is ...
Oprima-1
Oprima-1 is a program aimed at people who want to learn English and also become professionally trained to work in a ...
Patrice Coleman
Patrice Coleman works as a manager in our Smart Health Centers project and previously served as a manager for Chicago Health Atlas ...
Suzanne Connor
Suzanne Connor has been active in community arts, juvenile justice, and grantmaking for 30 years. Recently retired from her position ...
Chicago Health Corps Members
Anne Lin
Lin is currently serving as a Chicago Health Corps Member-Health Navigator with Smart Chicago at the Cook County Health and Hospitals ...
Katie Reed
Reed is a recent graduate of St. Olaf College in Minnesota. She studied Psychology and Sociology/Anthropology with a concentration in ...
Michelle Vu
Vu is a recent graduate from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a B.S. in Biological Sciences. As an ...
Navigators
Bendarius King
King served as the lead instructor for the Youth-LedTech | Summer 2015 program at North Lawndale Site. Ben is a product ...
Daniel Broome
Broome started with the Smart Chicago Collaborative’s Smart Health Centers project in April 2015. Having worked with non-profits in the ...
Farhad Ghamsari
Farhad first joined Smart Chicago as an AmeriCorps volunteer. His passion for health and technology convinced us he should stay ...
Kymon Odukoya
Kymon Odukoya has worked in the greater Chicago community for over 15 years. He has held various positions of civic ...