Staff

KENYA HUTTON
President/CEO

As a social justice, equity, HIV prevention and sexual health advocate, Kenya Hutton has worked to address a number of determinants of health among communities heavily affected by HIV and other health disparities for over 20 years.

Throughout his career, he has advocated for HIV prevention on the local and national level and brought awareness to LGBTQ young adults as well as members of the House/Ball community. As a result of his service to these communities, he has been honored with several accolades, including the Dorian Corey Wisdom Award, the Michael J. Harrington Humanitarian Award, the Award of Excellence from the Washington DC Ballroom Coalition and the DC Black Pride Presidents Award, among others.

Kenya collaborated with local nonprofits and the DC Health Department in 2019 to develop an educational program focused on providing potential employment opportunities for ballroom community members interested in becoming certified Community Health Workers.

Kenya spearheaded the development of the Capitol Ballroom Council during this period, which allowed ballroom leaders to develop programming and advocacy for the House/Ballroom community in addition to providing valuable programming insight, which resulted in him being one of the co-founders of the Capitol Ballroom Council, Inc. A non-profit organization based in Washington D.C. Kenya continues to push the envelope in making ballroom culture recognized as a vibrant, resilient community worthy of praise and support by non-ballroom mainstream organizations.

In recent years Kenya has been a leading voice in the discussion urging research and interventions addressing substance use within the ballroom community, especially Crystal Meth use, as well as developing systems to provide relief support for the ballroom community during the COVID-19 pandemic and most recently the MPOX outbreak.

The work of Kenya Hutton is dedicated to the enhancement of the health, economic, and social well-being of marginalized and disenfranchised communities.

Earl D. Fowlkes Jr.

President/CEO Emeritus

C. Hawkins

Operations Director

SilaS E. BURRIS, PHD

Outcome and Evaluation Director

Murtada Ghandi Elnahas

Program Associate

Anaré V. Holmes

Media Advisor

Board of Directors

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Featured

Carmen Neely

New York, New York
Chair

Charles Nelson

Chicago, Illinois
Vice Chair

Bishop Steven R. Sawyer

Seattle, Washington
Secretary

Charmaine Eccles

Washington, DC
Treasurer

Jason Black

Houston, Texas

Jennine Bell

Selma, Alabama

Dwayne Jenkins

Nashville, Tennessee

Transgender Task Force (CBE-TTF)

In March 2020, the Center for Black Equity established the Transgender Task Force. This task force will serve in an advisory role to CBE on the following issues:

- Creating events that fully embrace transgender and gender non-conforming individuals
- Lack of support for transgender issues from the Black LGBTQ+ communities
- Lack of dialogue from the Black community that addresses transphobia and the violence it creates towards Black Transgender individuals