Emily received her MPH from the University of Iowa College of Public Health in Community & Behavioral Health and Health Communication, with a concentration in Cultural Competency in Healthcare and Person-Centered Health Communication. She is a recipient of the Milford E. Barnes Award for Community & Behavioral Health. Emily spent 7 years working for a CBO that services the homeless and street community in the Chicagoland area. Emily led a team of CHWs with lived experience who worked closely with hospital systems, LHDs, FQHCs, and local EMS personnel to provide basic resources, primary care services, emergency services, medical respite, and the street-to-shelter-to-housing pipeline to some of Chicagoland’s most vulnerable street-involved individuals. Emily is a 3rd generation lived experience CHW.

 

She has been a program manager with IPHA for 3 years. She brings a health equity lens to IPHA’s commitment to community health. These include DEIA, live-experience CHWs, cultural humility, person-centeredness, trust-building, boots-on-the-ground community health integration, reframing political and social public health issues, and capacity-building through gradually increasing the moral consciousness of health equity.