Welcoming Emily Metz, Inaugural Program Director of Housing and Health
We’re excited to welcome Emily Metz as the inaugural Program Director, Housing and Health at Michael Reese Health Trust.
In this role, Emily will help shape and refine our housing and health vision, expanding the organization’s reach and deepening its impact. She will guide our current strategy while also identifying new opportunities to address housing insecurity in alignment with broader housing and community development initiatives. Through her work, Emily will foster collaboration among community, public, and private partners to drive systemic change and help ensure every Chicagoan has a safe place to call home.
Join us in welcoming Emily to the Michael Reese Health Trust team!
About Emily:
Emily Metz is a seasoned public policy leader who is deeply committed to ensuring all Chicagoans have equitable access to the safe and stable housing needed to lead healthy lives. She most recently served as the Program Director of Housing Stability at the University of Chicago’s Inclusive Economy Lab and Health Lab for nearly a decade. In this role, she led a team that partnered closely with social services agencies, practitioners, and people with lived expertise to increase the evidence base of what works in promoting housing stability and preventing and ending homelessness. Under her leadership, her team helped design, launch, and rigorously evaluate innovative homeless prevention and housing programs and ensure policymakers use findings to advocate for additional resources, more effective policies, and changes to practice on the ground.
Over her two-decades long professional career in both public service roles and the non-profit sector, Emily has endeavored to ensure that public policies and program administration reflect evidence-based practice and the perspectives of the people directly impacted by them, including at Chicago Public Schools Central Office, the City of Chicago’s Office of the Mayor, and the Center for Neighborhood Technology.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University and a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.
Emily is a lifelong Chicagoan who deeply loves this city and its residents. Outside of her professional work, Emily is immersed in raising three young children with her husband and lots of local grandparents and extended family support. She enjoys cooking (and eating!) delicious food, taking advantage of the lakefront in the summer, and any physical activity she can fit into her week.
Stay connected for the latest updates and news.