Kevin Jennings

Kevin Jennings is an educator, author, and social-justice advocate. After graduating from Harvard, he taught high school in New England and helped establish the first school-based Gay-Straight Alliance in 1988. He founded the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) in 1990 and later served as Assistant Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools.

Jennings is the author of Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s Son: A Memoir and One Teacher in Ten in the New Millennium, as well as the editor of One Teacher in Ten: Gay and Lesbian Educators Tell Their Stories. He also helped write and produce the documentary Out of the Past, which won the 1998 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary.