Jaymes Black
Chief Executive Officer
The Trevor Project
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.
Jaymes has more than two decades of experience managing large, high-performing teams across both nonprofit and corporate sectors. 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. Jaymes also held a variety of senior leadership roles across technology and finance, leading teams at major corporations including Charles Schwab, Sabre Corporation, and Northrop Grumman.
By turning his passion into a profession within the LGBTQ+ movement, Jaymes has been named to Out Magazine’s Out100 list in both 2022 and 2024, and Black Tie Dinner named Jaymes as the 2025 recipient of the Kuchling Humanitarian Award.
Jaymes has a master's of science in Business Administration and Management from Colorado Technical University. They grew up in South Texas, and is a parent raising twin boys in the Washington, D.C., area.
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.
Jaymes has more than two decades of experience managing large, high-performing teams across both nonprofit and corporate sectors. 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. Jaymes also held a variety of senior leadership roles across technology and finance, leading teams at major corporations including Charles Schwab, Sabre Corporation, and Northrop Grumman.
By turning his passion into a profession within the LGBTQ+ movement, Jaymes has been named to Out Magazine’s Out100 list in both 2022 and 2024, and Black Tie Dinner named Jaymes as the 2025 recipient of the Kuchling Humanitarian Award.
Jaymes has a master's of science in Business Administration and Management from Colorado Technical University. They grew up in South Texas, and is a parent raising twin boys in the Washington, D.C., area.