Jonathan serves on Healthy Hood’s media team. A generational talent with photography and cinematography.
Meet the Team
Hayward
Hayward is the Director of Music Programming at Healthy Hood.
Dashan
Dashan is a KNVS programming manager for Healthy Hood.
Tishja D
Tishja is an event coordinator for Healthy Hood
Dee
Dee works as a certified Community Health Worker and an event curator for Healthy Hood.
Kari Padilla
Kari serves as a Community Health Worker for Healthy Hood.
Allen Washington
Allen Washington is the founder of KNVS House. He serves as a chairman for Healthy Hood and is the Director of the Arts & Culture department within the organization.
Joline Lozano
As the Founder of the Youth Health Service Core, Joline serves as C.H.O. and board director of Healthy Hood.
TANYA LOZANO
CO-FOUNDER, CEO
Tanya Lozano is a dance instructor and activist in the Pilsen Community of Chicago. As an athlete and dancer, Lozano always found her passion in sports and fitness. She began playing basketball at a very young age and ventured onto her first organized basketball team at Rudy Lozano Bilingual International Academy. She then continued her education and basketball experience at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School. As a freshman, Lozano quickly earned the starting point guard position on the Varsity Team as well as the title of captain on the Junior Varsity team. Brought up by two activist parents, Lozano was involved in many of the local social justice campaigns as well as some of the national struggles for Latino rights. As a freshman Lozano organized a walk-out amongst her student body at Cristo Rey to participate in the massive immigrant rights marches of Chicago in 2005. As a result, Lozano was not able to continue her education at Cristo Rey her sophomore year. She transferred to Benito Juarez Community Academy, continued her education and basketball experience as the captain and MVP. Lozano decided to begin her collegiate experience at North Central College in Naperville, IL. with an interest in political science. She continued to play basketball at a division three level. Soon Lozano would decide to leave NCC due to experiences with racism at both the administrative and student levels. she would go on to Northeastern Illinois University majoring in social justice.
After learning of the health disparities and injustices in her own community, Lozano made the socially conscious decision to begin and remain pursuing her career in fitness in her own community of Pilsen where their was a lack there of. Her sense of style, passion for a healthy community, and her desire to influence has earned her a dedicated following of fitness enthusiasts and outstanding number of clients from the community, and has expanded her clientele to clients of the surrounding Areas as well. She founded Healthy Hood Chicago in 2014 and has then developed a team of quality instructors from the community. Providing quality services to the community as well as income for instructors.
Find Tanya at HH teaching Intro to Choreography and anything in between!
SEOBIA RIVERS
CO-FOUNDER
Seobia Rivers, The Fitness and Health Creative, uses fitness & health as her main creative outlet; she is an artist in the world of wellness. Equipped with a Bachelor's Degree in Exercise Science from Illinois State University + being an ACSM certified group fitness instructor and personal trainer, Seobia has been committed to making fitness + health safe, fun, effective, & liberating since 2011. Seobia believes choosing to live a healthy lifestyle is revolutionary, especially for all marginalized people. Fitness & health is about more than just planks, push ups, and smoothies to Seobia. She believes it is her duty and God given mission to encourage & help others see the importance of health in all its ways- physically, mentally, emotionally, & spiritually.
Seobia is extremely passionate about assisting others in their journey of breaking negative generational habits. She teaches people how to live their own individualized healthy lifestyle because she understands it looks different for everyone! Seobia promises to share all of the knowledge and resources she has to help make Chicago (& the world) healthier. She promises to hold herself and others accountable because the quote “Actions speak louder than words”, is one of her favorite phrases to live by.
Seobia is an entrepreneur & is currently back in school on the pursuit of accomplishing her dream of becoming a Doctor of Physical Therapy.