KT Kennedy (they/them) is a multidisciplinary community engagement artist, resourcer, organizer, and youth arts director based in Brooklyn, NY. At the intersection of art education, community practice, and social transformation, KT uses art as a tool for liberation in classrooms, cultural based institutions, movements, and community organizing.

KT has served as the Associate Director of Youth Programming and Community Organizing at Recess Art, where they lead and direct the Assembly program for system impacted youth artists since 2022, as well as on the Recess Board advisor committee. KT is also a 2025 and 2026 Activist in Residence (AiR) Fellow at The LGBT Center in Manhattan, where they are building QueerAid-NYC: a resource commons and mutual aid network for trans and queer New Yorkers. In 2025 they also began teaching undergraduate and graduate classes as an Adjunct Professor at CUNY Graduate Art Education department, shaping the next generation of socially-engaged educators. KT earned their Master’s from NYU in Art Education and Community Practice in 2021, receiving the AECP Student Excellence Award.

KT currently organizes and contributes to Red Afro Cubana Trans (RACT), NYC Abolitionist Block Party, BK Jail Support, KidZone Distro, New Yorkers for Culture + Arts(NY4CA), Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard, and Thank God for Abortion, and is a former member of ACT UP NYC. As of spring 2026, KT also sits on the Queer Nightlife Community Center (QNCC) board.

Most notably, KT is the founder and director of Black Education Matters (BEM). Since 2018, KT has built a globally recognized hub offering 1,000+ free resources affirming Black youth and supporting over 53,000 educators and caretakers.

Their work is relational and intentional, rooted in accountability, care, trust, and community mutual aid, while fostering collective power, autonomy, and transformative safety. KT’s work is continuing an educational ancestral lineage of bold queer + trans organizing and resistance.