Ameya
Pawar
Senior Advisor
Economic Security Project
Bio
Ameya teaches at the University of Chicago’s Crown School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and was appointed to the Illinois Finance Authority by Governor JB Pritzker to help drive efforts to finance clean energy projects and green industrial policy. In addition, Ameya is a co-founder and managing partner of OKAY Cannabis, a multi-unit social equity cannabis dispensary operator in Illinois that merges cannabis and hospitality.
Before that, Ameya was alderman of Chicago’s 47th Ward and the first Asian and Indian American elected to the Chicago City Council.