Kindred Motes
Kindred C. Motes Jr (born c. 1990 in Somerville, Morgan County) is a digital communications professional and founding director of KM Strategies Group in Washington D.C.
Motes earned his bachelor's degree in English at Birmingham-Southern College in 2012.
A class on "Civil Rights and Justice," taught by Ed LaMonte at Birmingham-Southern led him to seek opportunities in human rights advocacy after graduation. He worked with the Episcopal Service Corps in North Carolina before moving to England where he worked as a digital communications advisor while completing a master's in international relations at the University of Essex. In 2014 he began working as a communications associate for the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center. A year later he moved to New York to manage communications for the Control Arms alliance. In 2016 he took on the roles of digital communications manager for the Vera Institute of Justice, and for the MacArthur Foundation's Safety and Justice Challenge (SJC) initiative. In 2021 Motes was made a program director for the Wallace Global Fund. He is also a vice chair of the board of directors of the ACLU of Alabama.
Motes founded the KM Strategies Group (KMSG) in 2021. As part of the group's work, he has also served as interim chief of staff for the New Canaan, Connecticut-based Tow Foundation. In 2022 he launched the Etolia Fund as a charitable outreach of KMSG. The fund has provided more than $200,000 in unrestricted grants to a range of non-profits, many of them in the Birmingham area.
Motes is married to surgeon Raúl Caso.
References
- "Kindred Motes, director of digital at the Vera Institute of Justice and board member of RFK Young Leaders." (April 23, 2019) Politico
- Howard, Grace (February 14, 2024) "Alabama native Kindred Motes named 2024 “Power Player” in New York City." Bham Now