Devontá Dickey

Devontá Dickey is the Communications and Marketing Officer at Saint Luke’s Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio, where he leads the Foundation’s integrated communications and marketing strategy, spanning institutional narrative development, national media relations, digital infrastructure, and community engagement. His work sits at the intersection of philanthropy, storytelling, and community intelligence, translating resident and grantee insight into institutional priorities and public narrative.

Before joining Saint Luke’s Foundation, Devontá held communications and civic engagement roles in the nonprofit sector, including work with Cleveland VOTES, where he supported equitable civic participation across Greater Cleveland. He is a Philanthropy Ohio Emerging Philanthropist Leader honoree and has a piece forthcoming in The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s The Commons section. He believes proximity to the community is one of philanthropy’s most underutilized tools.