West Side United
LaDarius Curtis, MBA, currently serves as the Senior Director of Community Engagement and Health at West Side United since October 2020. Prior experience includes roles such as Senior Director of Community Engagement at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Manager of Lurie Children's Healthy Communities. Curtis held the position of Institutional Services Manager at the Service Employees International Union, Local 1, where responsibilities included managing collective bargaining agreements and membership growth strategies. Additional experience encompasses serving as a Senior Consultant in Political Consulting and Government Relations, Special Assistant to the Regional Administrator at the US General Services Administration, and various positions within the US Senate, including Director of Outreach. An educational background includes an MBA in Project Management from Keller Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Kenyon College.
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West Side United
Mission To build community health and economic wellness on Chicago’s West Side and build healthy, vibrant neighborhoods. About Us The nine vibrant and diverse neighborhoods comprising Chicago’s West Side are at the heart of the city’s civic and commercial vitality. Yet people in these neighborhoods experience rates of chronic diseases like diabetes, asthma, hypertension, and infant mortality rates far above the national average. Barriers to health and wellness extend far beyond the health sector. Medical evidence shows that the root causes of many illnesses that shorten the lives of people who live in urban areas are not based in biology or behavior, but are instead determined by the social forces like inequities in education, employment, food access, violence and transportation. The arteries circulating opportunity and prosperity to the West Side are blocked.