For more than 20 years Jay Blackwell has focused his activities on providing a wide range of capacity building and organizational infrastructure activities, trainings, and tools to assist agencies improve their ability to respond to public health concerns and disparities. He has assisted in the development of state and territorial health equity reports and plans as well as authoring a resource development curriculum that has been demonstrated to increase the fiscal capacities and writing skills of several agencies and organizations. He has worked throughout the United States focusing to improve, increase and respond to his clients demands and the change indicators of the communities being engaged.

Mr. Blackwell is the current Director of Programs at Umoja Behavioral Health PC in Albuquerque, NM where he continues to utilize his extensive background in public health, community development and organizational excellence by participating in several community and regional activities. He previously consulted with the US Department of Health and Human Services in the Office of Minority Health and Resource Center. There, he focused on assisting underfunded and underserved communities and organizations. For the last two decades, his professional services in the public health field have included assisting his clients improve health care access and treatment services to at-risk populations. Mr. Blackwell is considered an expert trainer and facilitator in organizational infrastructure and resource development strategies and techniques.