Director of Development

Mitch Hymowitz is a queer, disabled, anti- racist, anti-Zionist Jewish, transgender man who is a people-first professional, born and raised in New York. Mitch received his Bachelor’s of Science in Communication Studies with a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies from SUNY Oneonta, completed one year of a Master’s of Arts in Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, completed the Summer Institute on Sexuality at the Center for Research and Education on Gender and Sexuality in San Francisco, and is currently a Master’s in Public Administration candidate at Baruch College’s Marxe School of Public and International Affairs. He has been a queer and transgender competency trainer since 2010 and founded the PRISM Conference in 2013 to provide queer and trans students across the 65 SUNY colleges and universities the opportunity to connect, feel supported, seen, heard, and respected. Mitch has worked in the nonprofit sector since 2015 supporting youth in foster care, youth who have been incarcerated, mental health for youth, queer and trans folx, Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, and the rare disease community. Throughout those years, they wrote a queer and transgender competency curriculum for the state of California’s mental health system, facilitated a multiracial steering committee for a professional learning community entitled, ‘Understanding White Privilege and Engaging in New Directions’, and trained numerous organizations and school systems on transgender and queer competency. Currently, Mitch is the Director of Development for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project focused on partnerships, grants, sponsorships, and donor stewardship to ensure the work and legacy of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project perseveres and continues to grow. Mitch enjoys learning astrology, trivia nights, drag shows, painting, and relaxing at home with his spouse, two cats, and dog.

You can reach Mitch at:

Email: mitch@srlp.org

Office Phone: 212-337-8550 ext. 300

Work Cell Phone: 646-739-5711

Director of Outreach and Community Engagement

Kimberly Mckenzie is a black trans woman of color organizer and abolitionist with over 10 years of work experience in grassroots organizing for marginalized trans, gender non-conforming, and intersex communities. Currently as the Director of Outreach and Community Engagement at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Kimberly McKenzie is dedicated to empowering the leadership and political voices of marginalized trans communities filling many different leadership roles that focus on growing the self-advocacy skills, political education and sustainability of TGNCI community members of color facing poverty, violence, and discrimination. Kimberly Supports the mission of ending mass incarceration within the intersections of Woman, Race and Gender while building community resources.

She was also one of the many organizers who spoke on behalf of the JusticeforLayleen campaign to demand justice and accountability’s to the city’s placement of trans woman placed in solitary confinement at Rikers. And she is also a current member of the TGNCNBI taskforce to review the Department of Correction (DOC), ), policies related to TGNCNBI people in custody to ensure that the NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) properly implements SRLP’s feedback and comments on the treatment of TGNC people. Kimberly is committed to creating long-term systemic solutions to end race- and gender based oppression. She believes that those who are directly impacted are experts on their lived-experience and must inform strategies and solutions to address our overall work to decriminalize, decarcerate, and liberate. While we work to change laws and policies we must also address the root causes of our conditions seeking to shift narratives and our relationships to power. As an abolitionist she also believes it is imperative to address the legal, systemic, institutional, interpersonal, internalized, and ideological barriers that the State has imposed to criminalize our communities. Because of her commitment to creating long-term solutions to end race- and gender based oppression, Kimberly is deeply dedicated to SRLP’s strength and sustainability. Dedicated to empowering the leadership and political voices of marginalized trans communities, Kimberly firmly believes that in order for TGNCI communities to contribute to the work of our liberation, they must be free from violence and discrimination. Kimberly continues to support and advocate for TGNCI communities in the broader work for social justice and long-term systemic change.

Her deepest hope is that we can advocate for our communities and the immediate support needed to our communities facing a multitude of oppression to find ways they can be inspired to overcome the many barriers the state puts on them for solely existing.

• Email Kimberly Mckenzie
• Tel: 212-337-8550 x309