Mr. Gagnon currently serves Chicago Scholars as its Manager of Career Programs & Development, responsible for developing career-related opportunities for college students and building diversity and inclusion pipelines with strategic organizations throughout the city of Chicago.

Mr. Gagnon graduated with Honors in history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is currently enrolled in the Masters of Education program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that the edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring." - Martin Luther King, Jr.