Steph Perkins

Steph Perkins is a program officer at the Gill Foundation, responsible for identifying and developing grant-making strategies in the states to help advance nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people. Before the Gill Foundation, Steph served as the executive director of PROMO, Missouri’s statewide LGBTQ advocacy organization.

Originally from Kansas, Steph has been passionately engaged in the fight for LGBTQ equality at the local, state, and national level for more than a decade. He has served on the Public Policy Council for the St. Louis Regional Chamber of Commerce and the board of directors for Freedom for All Americans, a bipartisan campaign to secure full nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people nationwide.

Steph graduated from Missouri State University with a degree in sociology and religious studies. He now lives in Denver, Colorado.