Lucy Gomez-Feliciano, BA

Health Organizer and ALbD/HEbD Coordinator
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
2840 North Milwaukee Avenue

Lucy Gomez-Feliciano works and lives in Chicago’s Logan Square Community. As the health organizer at the Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA), she strives to collaborate with individuals and institutions to build a healthier Logan Square. Currently working as the community point person and overall manager of both the Active Living by Design and Health Eating by Design Partnerships. Some benchmarks include: a) leveraging $175,000 for Sunday Parkways (proposed pilot in 08) in collaboration with LISC/New Communities Program, b) hiring community parents to serve as AmeriCorps & VISTA to organize and deliver programs, c) Universal Breakfast in classroom being served at McAuliffe Elementary, increasing breakfast participating from 200 to 700 students and d) starting a health committee with the support of the Rails to Trails Conservancy that is currently looking at how the future 2.5 mile elevated trail would embrace the needs of people with diverse disabilities.

For over twenty years Ms. Gomez-Feliciano has been dedicated to building the minds, bodies and spirits of our youth and families. Activities include running after school enrichment programs and summer day camps at the local YMCA and boys and girls club; managing Gallery 37, an artist apprenticeship program; coordinating the high school service-learning program at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools; leading Outward Bound courses in Chicago's urban setting; establishing innovative environmental education within the Chicago Park District; and helping to construct three new playgrounds in Logan Square.

Ms. Gomez-Feliciano earned her BA degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago with an emphasis in photography. As an artist, she is continuously incorporating her creativity in all parts of her professional life. She sits on the Board of Directors for the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation and Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail and serves as an Advisory Council member of the Northwestern University Community-Based Participatory Research Program.