If we are to believe that our current society can be transformed into one where everybody can experience respect, equity and safety, then we must also believe that the first steps must be creating a world where Black women’s voices are heard, their leadership is followed and their lives are protected.

In her role as Senior Director of Social Transformation at My Sisters’ Place, Kym McNair (she/her) develops and facilitates trainings grounded in anti-racist principles for health care professionals, law enforcement, college students, and religious communities to help them recognize and respond to survivors of Domestic/Intimate Partner violence in their professional and personal lives. Kym is also an anti-racist/ism educator and organizer with The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, a multigenerational, multiethnic collective based in New Orleans. Kym has spoken on panels, facilitated conversations for religious and civic organizations across Westchester and has consulted with local congregations endeavoring to incorporate anti-racism principles into their theology. She has received proclamations recognizing advocacy. She served on the Town of Bedford’s IDEAC (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity Advisory Committee and the town’s White Plains Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative. She also represented My Sisters’ Place on the White Plains Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative. Kym serves on the Board of Directors of Caring for the Hungry and Homeless (CHHOP) and the Westchester Womens Agenda.

A lifelong fan of sci-fi and fantasy, she enjoys Afro- and African futurism fiction where the protagonists are women. Whether she is out walking her rescue dog, Simba or tending to her gardens, she dreams of a world in the not-so-distant future when like the protagonists in her favorite literary genre, Black women’s voices are heard, their leadership is followed, and their lives are protected.