Announcing Illinois Humanities’ New Board Members

Sylvia Ewing serves as Principal Director, Strategic Partnerships and Communications with Elevate, a nonprofit focused on climate equity. Sylvia leads a team of innovative communicators enhancing internal and external communications for good at elevatenp.org and partners on behalf of Elevate with various coalitions, nonprofits, foundations, governments, and global corporations.

Sylvia is also a certified meditation teacher who brings appreciative inquiry and restorative practices into all she does. In addition, she is an award-winning broadcast, theater, and virtual events producer with previous experience in successful political campaigns. Executive experience includes strategy, fundraising, professional development, narrative change, crisis response, and special events. On-air credits include national PBS specials as talent and other roles. She has taught mindfulness and meditation to corporations and government staff and developed a pilot meditation program used by children and families at a University of Chicago Children’s Hospital. She is a poet and part of the Emotional Historians collective.

Sylvia is a member of the Forbes Communications Council and a proud member of the Communications Network. Sylvia serves as the Immediate Past Board Chair of Kartemquin Films and on the Center for Performing Arts at Governor State University. She is the recipient of the 2020 Illinois Humanities Award along with her daughter Eve. The author of Comfort and Joy Stories of Hope Meditations for Happiness, Ewing is also a popular speaker and moderator, reaching thousands each year in collaboration with her network of partners. She is a proud grandma and wife and lives outside Chicago in the Southland.