Maryah Phillips

Maryah Phillips (she/her) is the program manager for the Neighborhood Capital Fund at The Chicago Community Trust.

Maryah’s previous roles include serving as a research assistant at the Race and Opportunity Lab of Washington University, where she was involved in efforts intended to advance the economic well-being of Black boys and men in St. Louis; introducing social work to the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, where she conducted an evaluation on the diversity of the institution’s public program attendance and creating lesson plans for K-12 education centering Black artists’ work; and provided social-emotional lesson plans and support to high schoolers at Wendell Phillips Academy High School and Dunbar Vocational Career Academy.

Born and raised in the south suburbs of Chicago, Maryah holds an master’s in social work from Washington University in St. Louis, where she concentrated in domestic social and economic development, and a bachelor’s in social work from Hope College.