Chijioke is the past Program Director for the Elijah Cummings Youth Program (ECYP) responsible for managing program, recruitment and alumni engagement. He is also an associate consultant for Maryland Nonprofits.
Prior to joining ECYP as staff, Chijioke participated as a fellow and is a graduate of ECYP’s class of 2015. After Baltimore City College high school and ECYP, Chijioke went on to attend The Johns Hopkins University where he received a Bachelors of Arts in Public Health.
Chijioke’s prior experience includes being an educator for several years at the Living Classrooms Foundation and working as the first health equity coordinator for Clackamas County in Oregon. During his time at Hopkins he created a discussion forum panel (Community Conversations) that tackles live community issues while bringing intergenerational community members of diverse parts of civil society to the forefront. This social engineering platform still operates today addressing topics such as the white L and black butterfly, diversity pipelines in healthcare, civic ties and tensions across ethnic groups, and community engagement in public health and urban and rural development. He continues to support his undergrad chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity Inc. He is a founding charter member and leads efforts in recruiting, retaining, and building the scale of alumni relations for this diversity pool and for Johns Hopkins' Society of Black Alumni (SOBA).
Chijioke is a member of the Equity Advisory Committee for Baltimore City Public Schools and of the Community Advisory Board for Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity. He is the quintessential community and health equity maven of the post-covid era.