Ken Tomczuk

Ken Tomczuk is the associate director of health justice transformation at the Center for Health Justice (CHJ). Ken supports the strategy development, program management, and implementation of CHJ’s health justice transformation portfolio, which aims to achieve racial and economic justice at Penn Medicine through operational changes.
 
Before joining CHJ, Ken served as a design strategist at CHTI’s Center for Insights to Outcomes. There, he designed and implemented initiatives to improve clinician experience, such as the Blue Coats program with embedded well-being ambassadors, and to enhance health care access for patients and providers. Earlier, Ken worked as the director of design and engagement at a Philadelphia nonprofit that partners with local communities to rebuild public spaces and support capacity-building efforts. In that position, he developed strategies for enhanced relationships and collaboration between designers, community members, and various stakeholders for more equitable outcomes. His previous work focused on participatory design, community engagement, tactical urbanism, and ecology.
 
Ken received his master’s degree in landscape architecture from Temple University. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Seton Hall University.