Phillip Summers

Phillip Summers currently serves as the Director of Community Development at Purple Crow since June 2025. Prior to this role, Summers held various positions at Wake Forest University from January 2023 to June 2025, including Associate Director and Grants and Contracts Manager. Experience at Wake Forest Baptist Health as a Project Manager from August 2020 to January 2023 involved managing a project focused on preventing agricultural chemical exposures. A brief stint in June 2020 at The Forsyth County Health Department involved contact tracing for COVID-19. Other roles included Monitor at City with Dwellings and Bus Driver at Winston-Salem Transit Authority, where insights were shared through blogging about career changes. Summers began a career in community engagement at Wake Forest School of Medicine from April 2010 to January 2019, serving as Associate Director of the Program in Community Engagement and also worked as a Research Associate. Educational qualifications include a Master of Public Health in Public Health Leadership from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Arts in Physical Education from the University of North Carolina Wilmington.