The Chicago native, community advocate, and co-founder and leader of the MAAFA Redemption Project, was featured in the category of Advocate and congratulations were rolling in. Not long after Hatch graduated from Bates with a degree in politics, he co-founded the MAAFA Redemption Project with his father, Marshall Hatch Sr., a pastor at New Mount Missionary Pilgrim Baptist Church. Marshall Hatch Jr. grow up, having worked with his father to advance justice in Chicago. Today he is the executive director of the MAAFA Redemption Project, a faith-based residential program offering support to at-risk young men in the city. Recognition at this point, he says, is “Timely, pun intended.”“It’s been hectic here in Chicago,” Hatch said.