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Derek Lindsey is a community advocate, DEI specialist, nonprofit management consultant, and community engagement leader in Baltimore, Maryland. Derek Lindsey’s professional background includes nonprofit strategic planning, change management, and community engagement. Derek currently works as President of the board of Directors at Blaq Equity Baltimore, the nonprofit organization behind Black Pride where he offering fiscal oversight, and helping to guide the organization’s fundraising strategy and sustainability. Derek is also the current Board Chair of Unique Venues Professionals of Baltimore since 2019, where he has made it his work to build relationships between Baltimore’s rich community of artists and black business owners, and the region’s top unique venues.
During his tenure at the National Aquarium, Derek Lindsey helped to lead the Aquarium’s community and internally focused DEIJ efforts, and produce community engagement programming and events for the National Aquarium, including Voyages, the Aquarium’s innovative arts and sciences event series aimed at community engagement and new audience development.
Derek also works as a nonprofit leadership consultant specializing in organizational strategic planning, nonprofit organizational culture & change management, and organizational community engagement.
Derek’s also worked as an activist and community organizer in the LGBTQIA community and was a founding member of the executive teams for nonprofit organizations Queers4BlackLives, and Baltimore Arts Resistance where Derek helped to organize and lead large scale local protests and Baltimore-led national marches.