Alum Phil Reason (MSW’21, MPH’22) Places 2nd in Innovate@BU’s New Venture Competition
Recent dual degree alum Phil Reason (MSW’21, MPH’22) took 2nd place in the social impact track of Innovate@BU’s 2022 New Venture Competition, receiving an $8,000 award towards his venture, Daily Living.
Daily Living will be a Black-owned and led nonprofit recovery house that provides safe, affordable and equitable housing to Black individuals experiencing housing instability and seeking a recovery-focused environment.
The venture draws from Reason’s personal transformation through substance use, incarceration, and recovery and from his academic and clinical training in the human and social services and public health fields which he says guides his healing practice. In his eleven years in recovery, he has done extensive professional work promoting individual healing and social change through legislative advocacy with unions, community organizations and the faith community.
Widely recognized as a role model for returning home citizens, Reason seeks to leverage his personal experiences and professional skills to provide peers in his communities with a supportive and dignifying living environment that eases their path to a meaningful recovery. His vision for Daily Living is a recovery house that is “holistic, empowering and clinically informed.”
Reason was among twelve New Venture Competition finalists who pitched their projects to over 200 attendees at Innovate@BU’s annual Innovators Night. An alum of BUSSW’s dual degree master’s program in social work and public health, he earned his MSW in 2021 and his MPH from BU School of Public Health in 2022.