Clothilde Ewing

Clothilde Ewing is vice president of strategic communications for The Chicago Community Trust. 

Ewing leads the foundation’s strategic communications team and manages the development, integration, and implementation of a broad range of content and public relations activities relative to the strategic direction and positioning of the organization and its leadership. Ewing brings to the Trust years of communications experience in both the public and private sector. 

Most recently, she served as the director of communications at Tempus, a technology company bringing big data and analytics to health care. Prior to that, she served in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration as the chief of strategic planning and for President Obama’s re-election campaign leading the campaign’s constituency press efforts. 

Ewing started her career in TV news, first as an assignment editor and producer at CBS News before moving to The Oprah Winfrey Show as a producer. In addition to her day job, she is a children’s book author. Her goal is for people to see more children of color in books that are not defined primarily by race or struggle but belonging and joy.  She lives in Chicago with her husband and two children.