Featured Speaker: Jaymes Black
Jaymes Black (they/she/he pronouns) is the CEO at The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ young people. He oversees the organization’s 24/7 crisis services, research, education, advocacy, and peer support programs. They are The Trevor Project’s first Black nonbinary lesbian CEO.
Black is an accomplished, empathetic senior leader with more than 20 years of experience managing high performing teams at scale. Their expertise blends nonprofit and corporate competencies, spanning business and community leadership, LGBTQ+ advocacy and coalition building, fundraising strategy and innovation, large budget oversight and financial acumen, call center operations and user experience, and more. She brings compelling lived experience that helps The Trevor Project work towards its mission to end suicide among LGBTQ+ young people.
Prior to joining The Trevor Project, Jaymes was the President and CEO at Family Equality, the leading national organization for current and future LGBTQ+ families. Family Equality works to ensure everyone has the freedom to find, form, and sustain their families by advancing LGBTQ+ equality through advocacy, support, storytelling, and education.
Jaymes has more than two decades of experience managing large, high-performing teams across both nonprofit and corporate sectors. Prior to turning his passion into a profession within the LGBTQ+ movement, Jaymes held a variety of senior leadership roles across the technology, defense, and finance industries, leading teams at major corporations including Charles Schwab, Sabre Corporation, and Northrop Grumman. Jaymes was honored on The 2022 Out Magazine’s Out100 list — a compilation of the year’s most impactful and influential LGBTQ+ people, and has a master's of science in Business Administration and Management from Colorado Technical University.
Jaymes grew up in South Texas, and currently lives in the Washington, D.C. area with their wife and twin boys.
