RMA Foundation Scholarships Helping Students Pursue Their Banking Ambitions

Growing up in Chicago, Zachariah C. Smith says he saw firsthand how economic practices of the past shaped one of America’s most economically segregated cities, with class and race often guiding its layout and design. The map of the city’s economic prosperity, he says, was laid out by an aggressive taxation system, discrimination, and disproportionate education opportunities.

“The wage gaps in wealth and education directly reflect this fact,” says Smith, who was among the more…