About Us


Sustainable Wellness Innovation is a non-profit collaboration platform that accelerates, innovates, and scales tech-enabled health and wellness solutions. Through collaborative solution development, we leverage technology-enabled solutions that increase health equity and measurably improve community health delivery and wellness outcomes in historically underserved communities. We connect solution innovators and providers with other critical stakeholders in the health and wellness ecosystem through guidance, curated facilitated engagements, and specialized patient/resident user testing. Together, we operationalize direct feedback that supports the development and implementation of digital tools.

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Our Goals


Enable health and wellness solution innovators and healthcare providers to deconstruct barriers to equitable care.

Engage critical stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem.

Empower patients and community residents with information, tools, and technology to directly impact solution design and development.

Meet Our Founder


Angela E.L. Barnes is the Founder of Sustainable Wellness Innovation. A corporate lawyer, a risk management and compliance professional, an entrepreneur, and a life-long southside Chicagoan, Angela founded Sustainable Wellness Innovation as an outgrowth of City Tech Collaborative’s Healthy Cities Initiative where she co-led the design and build of City Tech’s racial equity and inclusion framework.

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News, Perspectives, & More


By Sustainable Wellness Innovation 13 Oct, 2021
Sustainable Wellness Innovation will leverage technology-enabled solutions to improve community health and wellness in historically underserved communities.
By Angela E.L. Barnes 01 Mar, 2021
Angela E.L. Barnes shares her experience serving in the non-profit world.
By Angela E.L. Barnes, Meera Raja, & Laura Vecchetti 15 Dec, 2020
City Tech Collaborative staff share their method to meaningful work.

Let's Break Down Barriers to Equitable Healthcare

Real solutions require real collaboration. Bringing together experts from across sectors, we combine the best tools and thinking to understand complex issues and deploy the right solutions.


Join us to help break down barriers to equitable healthcare in Chicago.

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