Brad Clark is president & CEO of the Gill Foundation. He leads the team in executing the vision of Tim Gill and the board by prioritizing, implementing, and measuring the foundation’s work and grant-making toward its mission of securing full equality for LGBTQ Americans. Brad joined the foundation in 2015 as vice president of partnerships and assumed the role of president & CEO in 2018.

Brad began his career in his home state of Iowa, where he served as campaign director for One Iowa and executive director of Iowa Safe Schools. At One Iowa, he led the successful marriage equality campaign and built a coalition of nearly 100 allied organizations — representing more than 200,000 Iowans — along with a grassroots infrastructure of more than 12,500 members and 33,000 supporters. At Iowa Safe Schools, he led a coalition of education, civil rights, labor, faith, and business leaders to help pass a comprehensive safe schools law and a civil rights law to protect LGBTQ Iowans from discrimination.

Here in Colorado, Brad was selected as the founding executive director for One Colorado. Under his leadership, One Colorado built a coalition of more than one million Coloradans to pass a civil unions law, launched a nationally recognized organizing project with the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, passed a comprehensive anti-bullying law, helped ensure more than 150,000 students can access a gay-straight alliance, and added protections for transgender Coloradans to access health insurance.

Brad also served as the director of the Human Rights Campaign’s Project One America. This collaborative, cross-organizational program integrated political and advocacy work, communications and membership campaigns, and HRC Foundation programs — all in an effort to bridge divides, win hearts and minds, advance legal protections, and build more inclusive institutions for LGBTQ people.

Today, Brad serves on the boards of directors of History Colorado and Project Angel Heart.