Black Woman Named New President of the Human Rights Campaign

Black Woman Named New President of the Human Rights Campaign

September 22, 2022

The Human Rights Campaign announced Tuesday that Kelley Robinson will serve as its ninth president — the first Black queer woman to lead the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization.

Robinson, the executive director of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said she was honored to lead HRC and its 3 million member-advocates during "a pivotal moment in our movement for equality for LGBTQ+ people."

"We, particularly our trans and BIPOC communities, are quite literally in the fight for our lives and facing unprecedented threats that seek to destroy us," Robinson said in a statement Tuesday, using an acronym for Black and Indigenous people of color. "The overturning of Roe v. Wade reminds us we are just one Supreme Court decision away from losing fundamental freedoms including the freedom to marry, voting rights, and privacy."

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