Phoebe Stein Davis is the Executive Director of the Maryland Humanities Council. Before taking this position a year ago, Davis was with the Illinois Humanities Council (IHC) in Chicago for nearly ten years, where she was responsible for several major initiatives, including a highly successful effort to increase the national visibility of IHC and assisting in the creation and execution of IHC’s series of year-long public programs on race, advances in genetics, and environmental issues.