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LGBTQ LEADERS
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BRYAN JABLONSKI-JOHNSON

BY 2030, Bryan Jablonski-Johnson’s life and experiences demonstrate a
this great-great-great- long-standing history of servant-leadership. His career and personal
grandson of a slave named life revolve around service to others. At work, he is the accessible media
General Johnson will be manager for the CBS Corporation. Outside of work, he is a “Big Brother”
making laws in Congress. with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of NYC to a self-identified gay teen. He is
In the immortal words of a founding co-chair of the Xavier Mission associate board where he also
President John F. Kennedy,
“Ask not what your country mentors a recovering addict. He is a delegate with NYC Participatory
can do for you – ask Budgeting where he works with his city councilman to help his community
what you can do for your spend $1 million of taxpayer money on community-wide improvements. Photo Credit Dr . Vijai Singh
HE, HIM, HIS
country.” #ServiceAboveSelf AGE 37

MONDAIRE JONES

Mondaire Jones is a 2020 candidate for New York’s 17th Congressio- BY 2030,
nal District. He could very well become the first gay, Black member of we’ll have built a broad-
Congress, representing New York’s Westchester and Rockland Counties. based movement to defeat
Mondaire has always applied himself and his passions toward community homophobia, transphobia,
activism and public service. First as a high school student at the NAACP, and white supremacy.
during college serving the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice We will have dismantled
systems of power that
as a John Gardner Public Service Fellow and later as a legal intern. After produce inequity and
graduating from Harvard Law School, he was a litigator in the Westches-
Photo Credit Austin Henderson oppression. We will have
HE, HIM, HIS ter County Attorney’s office fought for LGBTQ civil rights as a member established a democracy
AGE 32 of the Board of Directors for the New York Civil Liberties Union. that works for all Americans.

VERONICA KIRIN

BY 2030, Serial entrepreneur, anthropologist, author, humanitarian— all words
my work with used to describe Veronica Kirin. Veronica is making her mark on the
queer youth and global LGBTQ+ business community and she’s just getting started. Her
elders will have drive to make an impact has already garnered recognition by the NGL-
forged partnerships CC: National LGBT Chamber of Commerce as the first NGLCCBE®
bringing LGBTQ+ in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as an invited speaker with the Canadian
entrepreneurship to the
forefront of innovation LGBT Chamber of Commerce (CGLCC) and she was awarded the 2019
and creativity. Corp! Magazine Diversity Business Leader Award for having a majority
LGBTQ+ staff. Veronica recently moved to Los Angeles, joined the Long Photo Credit Deb Kalsbeek, Snap Studio
Beach LGBT Chamber of Commerce and already connected with Gay SHE, HER, HERS
For Good. She has also embarked on the follow-up to her inaugural book AGE 33
Stories of Elders, by interviewing Gen Z youth.
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