Meet Philanthropy Tank’s New Program Director

Philanthropy Tank is excited to welcome our new Program Director Corey Murphy.

Murphy is a native Baltimorean who seeks to create sustainable change in urban spaces. He graduated from Coppin State University with a Bachelor of Science in Sports Management. As a Ronald E. McNair scholar, Corey became interested in exploring how political, environmental, and social inequities impact the health outcomes of underserved populations. He worked as a research assistant at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he tested interventions aimed to increase physical activity and health literacy among this population.

To this end, Corey pursued a Master’s Degree in Public Health at Northeastern University. While in Boston, Corey served as Program Coordinator of the Community Voices program, a summer program designed to expose teens to the concept of health inequities and the impact of advocacy on creating change in their communities. He mentored over 60 teens in the program. As a result of this work, Corey received the Martin Luther King Graduate Fellowship Award at Northeastern University.

Prior to joining Philanthropy Tank, Corey served as the Director of Youth Support at The Inner Harbor Project. In this role, he assisted teens in developing and cultivating their goals by providing academic coaching, emotional support, workforce development, and college preparation. Corey also served as a Program Associate on the Baltimore Civic Site team at Annie E. Casey Foundation. While there he created programs for young executive directors to fortify their leadership and management skills, supported organizations in the development of their programs, collaborated with city agencies and funders to change policies affecting young people.

His work aims to connect and strengthen the systems that serve young people; specifically, through mentorship, reconnecting youth to resources, and providing children quality OST programming. He is excited to join Philanthropy Tank, where he will work to ensure youth have equitable access to opportunities that will help them grow and thrive.

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