Kevin Tyson

Ambassador and Community Outreach Organizer Imani Village

Kevin Tyson is an officer of the CRS Board of Directors and serves as Interim Treasurer. Born in Harlem, New York and now residing in Chicago, he is the Ambassador and Community Outreach Organizer for Imani Village, a social enterprise development in the Pullman community. He is also a Master of Arts in Ministry candidate at McCormick Theological Seminary. 

He began his political activism in 1971 as a teenager in the Youth Committee to Free Angela Davis. He became a volunteer tenant and youth organizer for the Parade Grounds Neighborhood Action Project under the Flatbush Development Corporation in Brooklyn, New York. He also served as the paid co-campaign manager in 1983 for City Council District 45 candidate Maria Ramos in the Flatbush area. After moving to Chicago, Kevin worked as an organizer for the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and a volunteer organizer for State Senator Alice Palmer. With over fifty years in community and political activism, he has been involved in campaigns against the death penalty and food insecurity and to promote police accountability and voter registration.