Our Leadership
Christy Prahl, Executive Director
Christy (she/her) previously served as Program Director, Health and Human Services, for Crown Family Philanthropies and New Communities Program Director for Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation. She is a seasoned philanthropy and nonprofit professional who centers equity in her professional and personal endeavors. Christy credits her work in the Humboldt Park community for the conviction that philanthropy is its best when taking the lead from community. She has brought this lens to more than a decade of foundation work with an emphasis on social determinants of health, trust-based philanthropy, and collaborative partnership, often with the public sector. Her leadership helped to pilot transformational initiatives in public health, housing/homelessness, and domestic violence throughout Chicagoland. Christy is also a published poet and the leader of her block group in west Logan Square. She holds a Masters Degree in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois – Chicago and PhD in English from the University of Kansas.
Officers/ Executive Committee
John A. Svoboda
President
Lee Francis, MD, MPH
Vice President
David G. O’Neill
Treasurer
Michelle Collins
Secretary
Board of Directors
Tariq H. Butt, MD
Vice President Health Affairs, Access Community Health Network
Edward K. Chandler
Manager, Longboat Ventures
Michelle L. Collins
President, Cambium LLC
Lee Francis, MD, MPH
President & CEO, Erie Family Health Centers
Kary McIlwain
Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
David G. O’Neill
Julian G. Posada
President & CEO, LiftUP Chicago
John A. Svoboda
Managing Director and Co-Founder, Svoboda Capital Partners LLC
T. Sands Thompson
Partner, BDT & MSD Partners
Bryan S Traubert, MD
Chairman, Pritzker Traubert Foundation
Kevin B. Weiss, MD, MPH
Chief Sponsoring Institutions and Clinical Learning Environments Officer, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Adrienne White-Faines
Chief Strategy Officer, American College of Physicians
Stephanie A. Whyte, MD, MBA
Senior Medical Director, Aetna, a CVS Health Company
Rebecca M. Wurtz, MD, MPH
Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Life Directors
William E. Bennett
Ada Mary Gugenheim