Speaker: Jaymes
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About the spreaker
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, based in the United States and Mexico. Jaymes oversees the organization’s 24/7 crisis services, research, education, advocacy, and peer support programs. They are The Trevor Project’s first Black genderqueer lesbian CEO. Black is an accomplished, empathetic senior leader with more than 20 years of experience managing high performing teams at scale. They bring 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.  By turning their passion into a profession within the LGBTQ+ movement, Jaymes has been honored as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people in philanthropy and named to the inaugural TIME Visionaries list. They were also named to Out Magazine’s Out100 list in both 2022 and 2024, and celebrated with the 2025 Kuchling Humanitarian Award, and the 2026 Audre Lorde Activist Award.