Barton L. Jackson II
Barton L. Jackson II, a
vice president and relationship
manager
at TD Bank, is a
banking professional of 12
years. He feels very fortunate
to have fallen in
love with a career that
puts him at the intersection
of finance and
serving his community.
In October, Barton
will celebrate
his eighth year at TD
Bank. Representing
the Regional Commercial
Bank, his responsibilities
are in supporting small business
owner clients to navigate
their capital needs and financing
options. Through in-depth
discussions regarding their cash
cycle, scaling, and other financial
milestones, Barton and his
clients can best determine how
TD Bank business solutions can
support their endeavors. As a relationship
manager, he oversees
lending decisions for clients with
total credit exposure ranging
from $100,000 to $1 million.
As TD Bank’s Metro New
York LGBTA Business Resource
Group Community Marketplace
Lead, Barton maintains
an active presence in the community
through volunteerism,
professional networking and
partnerships, and business
development in line with the
TD brand. He is also a TD
Bank volunteer ambassador
to the National
LGBT Chamber of Commerce,
an advocacy organization
dedicated
to expanding economic
opportunities for the
LGBT business community
whose certification
of LGBT Business Enterprises
is recognized by
more than one-third of Fortune
500 companies. With NGLCC,
he has chaired monthly events,
brought new members on board,
and facilitated meaningful networking
introductions among
participants.
For the Office of the New York
State Comptroller, Barton sits
on the Consumer Protection and
Empowerment Focus Group.
He has taught consumer financial
literacy and small business
financial seminars for numerous
community groups and
non-profits across the New York
City area.
In 2019, Barton was recognized
as one of the Business Equality
Network’s 40 LGBT Leaders Under
40, and last year he was also
named one of TD’s WOW! Stars
for his work in community development.
Prior to his work with TD
Bank, Barton worked for Verify
Credit Union and Wells Fargo.
Barton is a graduate of Boise
State University.
Vice President,
Relationship
Manager,
TD Bank
Ken Kidd
Ken Kidd, director of
special projects and
events at NYU’s College
of Arts and Science,
has been a proud rabble-rouser in
the LGBTQ and HIV/ AIDS communities
for more than 30 years.
At NYU, Ken conceived and
spearheaded the university’s
Stonewall#50, with more than
100 special events at the school’s
sites across the globe – including
three art exhibits and the publication
of three books marking the
anniversary and the roles played
by NYU community members in
the movement since.
Ken’s activism has spanned
the leading LGBTQ civil rights
and health advocacy efforts of recent
decades. He helped organize
major protest actions of ACT UP,
Queer Nation, the Gay and Lesbian
Anti-Violence Project, Gays
Against Guns (GAG) – launched
in the immediate aftermath of the
Pulse nightclub massacre in June
2016 – and Rise and Resist, which
emerged in response to Donald
Trump’s Russian-backed overthrow
of our country’s democracy.
In 1991, Ken helped organize
ACT UP’s “Day of Desperation”
that shut down Grand Central
and 42nd Street during a weeknight
rush hour, and he was
an original member of Queer
Nation from its first meeting
through its actions against
Vladimir Putin’s Anti-Gay
Propaganda Laws in 2013
and 2014 and its successful
2015 efforts to kill the
fatally flawed Employment
Nondiscrimination Act.
He assisted in crafting the
wording for ENDA’s stronger
and more comprehensive
successor, the Equality Act, currently
languishing due to GOP
Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc-
Connell’s intransigence.
As a GAG member since its inception,
Ken has worked with
the group’s Human Beings (silent
veiled figures cloaked in
white who represent those whose
voices were lost to gun violence),
helped spearhead successful
Gays Against Guns strategies
against gun stock investments
via BlackRock holdings, and
led the successful battle
against the National Rif le
Association’s Business
Alliance, a group of more
than 100 national and
international corporations
that had lavished
huge discounts to NRA
members but have since
broken ties.
Ken created an ad/ zap/
action campaign to focus on
NRA-sponsored bills introduced
in Congress to legalize Nationwide
Concealed Carry Reciprocity and
most recently began a campaign
of action and education about
Wells Fargo, the NRA’s principal
bank that has offered the gun
lobby and assault weapons manufacturers
at least $470 million in
loans and bond financings since
the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting.
Of GAG’s efforts, Ken says,
“Stay tuned because we’re not
done yet!”
Co-Founder &
Steering
Committee
Member, Gays
Against Guns
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