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Kenyon Farrow has been working as an organizer, communications strategist, and writer on issues at the intersection of HIV/AIDS, prisons, and homophobia. A current Policy Institute Fellow with the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), Kenyon will be working on a report about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Black gay men in the U.S. As the National Public Education Director for Queers for Economic Justice, an organization dedicated to leadership development, organizing and advocacy for class issues for the LGBT community. He’s building a national network of grassroots LGBTQ racial and economic justice organizations. Kenyon also served as press coordinator with a US delegation of advocates at the 2008 International AIDS Conference coordinated by Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP) to advocate for a National AIDS Strategy with other advocates from the US, which resulted in international press on the issue.While the Director of Communications for CHAMP, Kenyon lead the strategic communications efforts for the Prevention Justice Mobilization, and helped launch Project Unshackle—a network of AIDS activists and prison activists from across the country to work more strategically together at the intersection of mass imprisonment and HIV risk.Kenyon has also led successful campaigns to tackle homophobia in the Black community. While with the New York State Black Gay Network, he launched a faith-based project—the REVIVAL! Initiative, help shut down a performance of homophobic dancehall artists, and launched a groundbreaking social marketing campaign challenging homophobia in the Black community, which has now been replicated in several cities across the country. He has also a founding board member with FIERCE!, served as Board Co-chair for Queers for Economic Justice, on the National Organizing Body for Critical Resistance, and was CR’s first Southern Region Coordinator based in New Orleans.In addition to his political work, he is the co-editor of “Letters From Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out†(Nation Books 2005) and the upcoming “A New Queer Agenda†(NYU Press). His work has appeared in publications such as Utne Reader, Black Commentator, Left Turn, POZ, The Indypendent, City Limits, and in the anthology, “Spirited: Affirming the Soul of Black Lesbian and Gay Identity†(Red Bone Press 2006).Kenyon has been a panelist, lecturer and keynote speaker at many conferences and universities including New York University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin/Madison, and Hamsphire College, Antioch College, and Macalester College.He has been honored as one of the “Movers and Shakers†in HIV/AIDS Activism in the African-American Community by The Body.com, and was named as one of Out Magazine’s Out 100 for 2008.
