Kenyon Farrow is Heading PSY’s Policy Department
Image Description: Staff Headshot of Kenyon Farrow. Text reads “Kenyon Farrow, Vice President, Policy”
Our Policy Department, headed by Kenyon Farrow, is working towards the goal of developing and implementing a strategic policy agenda driven and informed by placing power and resources in the hands of young people. Our policy objectives are to expand the presence and accessibility of Direct Cash Transfer programs for young people experiencing houselessness and housing instability at the federal and local levels and to disrupt the barriers that prevent young people from participating in civic change and shaping policy recommendations.
We are eager to partner with folks across the country doing amazing work to dismantle power vacuums, disrupt the status quo and ensure that the movement to end youth homelessness is youth-led, centered, and driven.
We are excited to welcome Kenyon Farrow as our Vice President of Policy to head our new department and shape national and local policy strategy. Kenyon Farrow is a policy expert, political strategist, writer, and editor. His expertise is in public health, health care, social safety net, and social justice. Kenyon has coordinated campaigns large and small, local, national, and global on issues related to criminalization/mass imprisonment, homelessness, HIV, COVID, Monkeypox, and LGBT rights.
Kenyon previously served as the Managing Director of Advocacy and Organizing with PrEP4All, where he helped lead a policy coalition on a National PrEP program and led a campaign to make insurance companies accountable to pay for PrEP services. Previously Kenyon served as senior editor of TheBody.com & TheBodyPro.com and U.S. & Global Health Policy Director with Treatment Action Group (TAG).
In addition to his political work, Kenyon is a prolific essayist and author. He is the co-editor of the book Letters From Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out. His work has also appeared in many anthologies including For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Still Not Enough, We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America, Abolition for the People, Crisis & Care: Queer Activist Responses to a Global Pandemic, and Healing Justice Lineages.
His work has also appeared in publications such as Medium, POZ, The Atlantic, OUT, BET.com, TheGrio, Colorlines, Logo, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Capital Journal, City Limits, HuffPost, and The American Prospect.
Kenyon has been hailed for his work by numerous institutions including Out Magazine’s “Out 100”, The Advocate Magazine’s “40 Under 40″, The Root’s “20 Black LGBT Movers and Shakers”, and Black Entertainment Television which designated him a “Modern Black History Hero.”