Philip Webb is the Chief Financial & Operations Officer at the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice.

His career has moved between the academic work of research on urban social policy and the nonprofit world of management and planning in community and social justice organizations. Prior to the Institute, he was the Executive Director of Making It Possible to end Homelessness in Edison, NJ. He has taught on homelessness, urban social problems, and social justice at Emory University, Georgia Tech, DePaul, and the University of Oklahoma. He was a Fellow at Emory’s Center for Community Partnerships and a Foundation Fellow at the University of Georgia. His book Homeless Lives in American Cities: Interrogating Myth and Locating Community was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014.

Beyond this scholarly work, he has run homeless prevention, transitional housing, and affordable housing programs for homeless families in the Atlanta area and worked at a homeless advocacy agency in Boston. He has consulted with and trained nonprofit boards and staff in development, operations, and planning. Philip has a Ph.D. in urban studies and social theory from Emory University and a Master’s in Social Ethics from Harvard University.