Marshall Hatch Jr.

Marshall Hatch Jr.

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Marshall Hatch Jr. is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the MAAFA Redemption Project, a Chicago-based workforce, social & spiritual-development initiative for Black and Brown men ages 18-30. Hatch Jr. hails from the Westside of Chicago. He graduated from Lincoln Park high school in 2006, and was awarded the Gates Millennium scholarship the same year.

He attended Bates College located in Lewiston, Maine, graduating in 2010 with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Religion. After working for Bates as an Admission Counselor, Marshall moved back to Chicago, joining Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men as the Director of College Counseling and teacher of African American History. He served in these capacities for three years while mentoring hundreds of African American young men on the South and Westside.

His passion for education, social justice, and spirituality grew substantially from these experiences, leading him to pursue dual Master's degrees in Divinity and Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago in 2014. Upon graduation, Marshall joined his father, Pastor Marshall Hatch Sr., in full-time ministry at New Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church, the largest congregation in Chicago’s West Garfield Park neighborhood.

In 2017, Marshall and his father founded the MAAFA Redemption Project as a ministry of the church. The Project recruits and invests in emerging adult Black and Brown men with housing, job skills development, educational opportunities, and wrap-around social services. The Project supplements these supports with programming that focuses on the arts, cultural-identity development, spiritual enrichment, transformative travel, civic empowerment, and insistent Life Coaching/Mentoring.