Kindred Motes is an award-winning executive with nearly 15 years of social impact, communications, philanthropic, and management strategy experience, including campaigns for or in collaboration with some of the most prominent names in the social justice, technology, policy, and philanthropic sectors: The United Nations, The Obama White House, USAID, ACLU, Global Citizen, Netflix, Participant Media, Amnesty International, Oxfam, Google, MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, New America, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Girl Rising, the GenderSmart Investing Summit, and Vera Institute of Justice, among others.

Kindred’s strategic planning and management of digital marketing and campaign implementation, led both in-house and as an external consultant, has engaged more than 400M accounts worldwide. His career audience growth strategies have helped NGOs, foundations, and nonprofit organizations acquire more than 1.1 million new followers. He has managed multiple strategic grant-making portfolios for various foundations and been responsible for managing and advising teams with annual giving budgets of up to $30 million dollars.

His portfolio of work spans eighteen countries, including six low- or middle-income countries (LMICs). In addition to communications and digital strategy efforts, Kindred has also advised organizations on how to leverage and integrate marketing and social impact campaigns within international and governmental affairs work, including at the United Nations, the Summit of G20 Heads of State and Government, the United States Congress, the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26). His media outreach, brand messaging, and campaign management strategies have resulted in coverage in seventeen countries (in eight languages), including in prominent outlets like The New York Times, Forbes, The Financial Times, The Guardian, El País, Le Monde, Vox, The Times of India, Teen Vogue, NowThis, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Fast Company, and USA Today.

Kindred is an Alabama native, was a first-generation college and graduate student, is the proud son of a retired assembly line worker and a former US Postal Service employee, and identifies as a member of the LGBT community.

Kindred is the managing fund advisor of The Etolia Fund and currently also serves as Vice Chair of the board of directors for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Alabama and on the Advisory Council of Fountain House. He previously served as a Senior Advisor to both Global Citizen and New America, on the Young Leaders Board of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, as an advisor to the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, and as a communications advisor to Justice Centre Hong Kong.

Kindred has spoken on panels or chaired discussions at events tied to South by Southwest (SXSW), Sundance Film Festival, the Sidewalk Film Festival, The Best of Justice Reform Awards, and the Association of National Advertisers’ Word of Mouth Marketing Association Summit. His work as founder of KMSG and the KMSG Social Impact Award has been featured in The Associated Press, Forbes, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Philanthropy News Digest, The Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other publications. His work on behalf of nonprofit organizations has been awarded with Webby Awards and a Telly Award, two of the most prestigious honors given to digital and creative multimedia.

Kindred is an Alabama native, was a first-generation college and graduate student, is the proud son of a retired assembly line worker and a former US Postal Service employee, and identifies as a member of the LGBT community.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Birmingham-Southern College, where he was a Harrison Honors Scholar, and a Master of Arts in international relations with honors from the University of Essex in Britain. In August of 2019, he received the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from Birmingham-Southern College for his work on behalf of civil and human rights, and has also been recognized by the University of Essex’s Department of Government as a graduate excelling in his field.

He is married to Dr. Raúl Caso, MD MSCI, and they live together in Manhattan.