Wande Kotun
Immediate Past President
Wande Kotun is a rising healthcare and community leader in Baltimore, MD, serving as both a health administrator and visual artist. Wande joined Johns Hopkins Medicine in 2015 as an Administrative Fellow and serves today as the Director of Population Health at Johns Hopkins Bayview. Originally from Macon, Georgia by way of Lagos, Nigeria, she works by day to implement and managing programs that improve patient outcomes while addressing community and social barriers to health. By nights (and weekends), Wande serves as a freelance and teaching artist in Baltimore City, working primarily with middle school-aged girls to help them embrace self-discovery through self-expression. She values that through both lines of work, she is able to meet and learn about the individuals in her community while creating intentional strategies and opportunities that will allow their stories to thrive.
Wande is skilled at multi-stakeholder engagement, project and program management, design thinking methodologies and team building.
Wande has been a proud member of NAHSE for 6 years, since competing (and placing 3rd) in the 2014 Everett V. Fox Student Case Competition. She joined while attending Georgia State University as a dual MBA/Master of Health Administration student. What she found at NAHSE was an outpouring of love coupled with the empowerment that came from walking into rooms of healthcare executives that “looked like her.”
A few years after being immersed in the glorious culture of Baltimore City, Wande began Resolute Rose Artistry in 2018 in hopes of utilizing her artistic voice and her healthcare platform to continue giving a voice to the world that surrounds her. In 2019, Wande was the recipient of the Gutierrez Memorial Fund’s Artist Award, which allowed her to co-curate a permanent healing space with residents in the McElderry Park neighborhood in East Baltimore.
Wande is skilled at multi-stakeholder engagement, project and program management, design thinking methodologies and team building.
Wande has been a proud member of NAHSE for 6 years, since competing (and placing 3rd) in the 2014 Everett V. Fox Student Case Competition. She joined while attending Georgia State University as a dual MBA/Master of Health Administration student. What she found at NAHSE was an outpouring of love coupled with the empowerment that came from walking into rooms of healthcare executives that “looked like her.”
A few years after being immersed in the glorious culture of Baltimore City, Wande began Resolute Rose Artistry in 2018 in hopes of utilizing her artistic voice and her healthcare platform to continue giving a voice to the world that surrounds her. In 2019, Wande was the recipient of the Gutierrez Memorial Fund’s Artist Award, which allowed her to co-curate a permanent healing space with residents in the McElderry Park neighborhood in East Baltimore.