As the Executive Director of the Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI), Thomas Krever works to help lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth find a safe haven of support where they are free to develop their own strengths and resiliencies to interact in a world that can be overtly hostile and even questioning of their basic human rights. Coming to HMI in 2003, his first task was to create the Comprehensive Education Plan (CEP), a blueprint that expanded the then-“Harvey Milk School” program into a fully functioning, independent, public transfer high school in NYC for at-risk youth. Presently, Thomas is overseeing the expansion of HMI to new cities across the country, and establishing an advocacy initiative to educate and inform decision- and policy-makers with regard to the issues confronting our nation’s LGBTQ youth.

Mr. Krever has worked in the nonprofit field for over two decades, bringing quality services to at-risk and fringe youth populations throughout the nation. His experience includes program design, implementation and evaluation, community mobilizing and nonprofit direct service and executive management training. He has spent significant time during his career defining the elements needed to build comprehensive program models and agency support structures ready for replication within various communities across the United States. Thomas has traveled throughout our nation training community leaders on how to develop systems that will reconnect our nation’s most disconnected young people. Often, this meant having them put aside their own personal or institutional differences so that they could focus on the matter at hand: saving the lives of their children.

Prior to joining HMI, Mr. Krever served as Vice President of the Council for Unity, an international violence prevention program working with gang-involved youth. In this position, he worked with communities across the country to develop holistic systems that could support and sustain the reclamation of our nation’s recently incarcerated youth, and preparing these communities to reclaim their own.

Mr. Krever’s entire career has been devoted to giving a voice to the needs and concerns of our nation’s most vulnerable, fragile and far-too-often unheard young people. He is a recognized leader in the field of youth leadership, and noted for developing inclusive environments and training organizations and systems to develop more inclusive communities. He has appeared on numerous programs and in print media such as CNN, Dateline NBC and The New York Times.

Thomas holds a BFA in Dance (having performed on Broadway and at the Lincoln Center and toured nationally), an Executive Masters in Public Administration from Baruch College, and an Advanced Certificate in Non-Profit Management from Hofstra University.

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