Executive Director Lindsay Sweet was born and raised in Highland Park and Northbrook. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin’s Honors Humanities Program, with a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where she studied health policy and promotion.
Lindsay began her career as a health educator and project officer at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), working in tobacco control. She then moved back home to Chicago and managed community health programs at the American Academy of Pediatrics. After taking a career break to raise three children, Lindsay is delighted to run Community – The Anti-Drug Coalition.
Program Director Audree Spewak is a May 2025 graduate of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she studied psychology with a Clinical/Community concentration. During her time in undergrad, she served as a research assistant in a social psychology lab and the president of a mental health focused club. This fall, Audree began her counseling psychology masters program at The Chicago School. She has a passion for working in the mental health field and hopes to eventually become a licensed therapist. Her wealth of knowledge in working with children and mental health led her to start working at Community The Anti-Drug this summer.