Tamitha T. Walker joined The Kresge Foundation as a program officer in 2009 and shares responsibility with her Human Services team colleagues for the design and implementation of national and regionally focused human services grantmaking strategies. She also manages, monitors, and evaluates grantees within the Human Services portfolio; expands and integrates the use of investment tools; and develops and implements the team’s research and field-building initiatives.

“My research, teaching, and practice focus on analyzing and improving the implementation of public policy, particularly those policies designed to support low-income individuals and their families’ advancement beyond poverty,” she says. “I have chosen to work with and to study public, private, and philanthropic organizations that develop and deliver social programs as well as the individuals who seek and participate in such programming.”

Previously, Tamitha was a program officer with the Early Childhood and Youth portfolio at the Robin Hood Foundation; a senior research associate at Rutgers University; director of the Balm of Gilead, Inc. Technical Assistance and Training Center; a management consultant for Public Health Solutions; and a legislative assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Tamitha is a doctoral candidate in public administration at Rutgers University. She earned a master of divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary and a master of health science degree in health policy from The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Her research has been published in the journal Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment. She is a member of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations, the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, and the Grantmakers Income Security Taskforce.

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