We like to think of Smart Chicago as a "way station for smart people". Once you work with us, we're perfectly happy to see you move on, but we never let you go.
Here's a look at those with whom we've served.
Akya Gossit
Akya Gossit was born and raised in Chicago. She is a single mother of two amazing boys. She currently holds an Associate’s Degree ...
Sandor Weiss
Sandor Weiss was the designer behind Chicago Works For You, a citywide dashboard with ward-by-ward views of service delivery in Chicago ...
Marlene Ho
Marlene Ho managed the inaugural Illinois OpenTech Challenge and our first #CivicSummer program. She also helped set up the CivicWorks Project ...
Jacqui Cheng
Jacqui Cheng created and delivered training for our first #CivicSummer from April to August 2013. You can get a sense of what we learned ...
Video Twist
Video Twist Productions provided videography services for the Chicago School of Data Summit in September 2014 ...
Scott Robbin
Scott Robbin of Robbin & Co has served as mentor, developer, dev ops, and advisor to Smart Chicago since November 2013. There isn’t a project we’ve been ...
Adam Garcia
Adam served at the Project Coordinator and Instructional Coach for our Youth-Led Tech program, where he managed the work of our instructors ...
Greater Good Studio
Greater Good Studio is a human-centered design research firm in Chicago. They are designing a digital directory for youth in detention facilities, ...
Mohammad Ouyoun
Mohammad Ouyoun started as a Smart Chicago intern in July 2014. We first met Mohammad while he was a student at ...
Aaron Salmon
Aaron Salmon did early design on our CivicWorks project. He was invaluable in developing our thinking for the Smart Chicago site and how to ...
Bryan Thompson
Bryan helped us with grassroots marketing when we first launched the CUTgroup. He helped us achieve our goal of getting signups ...
Chris Gansen
Chris Gansen of Make No Little Plans worked with us from December 2012 to December 2013. He helped us create our ...
Derek Eder
Derek Eder of DataMade was one of the first consultants for Smart Chicago. We first hired Derek in May 2012 to help build ...
Gabrielle Lyon
Gabrielle Lyon served as project manger for the Chicago Early Learning Portal from April to September 2009 ...
Lisa Schneider Fabes
Lisa Schneider Fabes consulted with us as we were forming our #CivicSummer program in December 2012 ...
Matt Gee
Matt Gee was a consultant to the Chicago School of Data project and was a critical in its inception, with the work running ...
Christopher Whitaker
Whitaker has served as Smart Chicago's primary research, writer, and event coordinator since December 2012. He has helped to contribute ...
