01Healthcare &
Growing Up in Chicago
Where my commitment to service began.
Before I knew what healthcare policy or enterprise technology meant, I knew what it meant to care for people. My mother was a teacher. My father was a nurse. Growing up on Chicago's South Side, I saw two different careers rooted in the same kind of commitment: showing up for people who were counting on you.
That stayed with me.
When I think about healthcare and public service, I don't picture an organization chart first. I think about the nurse caring for a patient, the teacher trying another way to reach a student, or the person helping a family find its way through a complicated system. I think about the people who have to make it work, even when the system around them makes the job harder.
That's where my compassion for frontline professionals comes from. Their work deserves more than our admiration. They deserve policies, processes, and tools that make it easier to care for the people depending on them.
