Kyle Pedersen, MAR

Kyle Pedersen has worked for Connecticut Mental Health Center since 2002, is currently Director of Organizational Health and Director of the CMHC Foundation with more than 25 years experience in community mental health and non-profit leadership in New Haven and New York City. He is a 2023 recipient of the Linda K. Lorimer Award for Distinguished Service at Yale. In the Department of Psychiatry he co-chairs the Project Synapse workplace improvement initiative and is co-chair one of the Implementation Teams of the Anti-Racism Task Force. Kyle is skilled in executive leadership; strategic planning; new program development; sound fiscal management; donor relations and fund development; community connections; supervision of staff, volunteers, and interns; and training and education for students and learners of all ages. He is an anti-racist trainer/organizer with the Elm City-Undoing Racism Organizing Collective and the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond; deacon for Trinity Church on the Green and the Episcopal Church at Yale; President of Gather New Haven; chair of the New Haven Solid Waste and Recycling authority; on the board of Citywide Youth Coalition; and has served on boards of other local and regional organizations. Kyle enjoys cooking, gardening, reading, and messing around in small boats.