Uchenna Hicks joined Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), operator of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, in 2015. She oversees partnership development, planning and activation for the company's community investment portfolio. She is responsible for overseeing the company's employee volunteer program and leading enterprise-wide communications and reporting for HCSC's corporate community involvement efforts. Prior to joining HCSC, Uchenna managed strategic philanthropic outreach initiatives at the University of Chicago Medicine. She spent more than ten years at The New York Times where she held several positions managing corporate communications, media relations and community affairs.