Matthew Kincaid

Matthew Kincaid is CEO/founder of Overcoming Racism (OR). Working in the anti-racism field since he was 14 years old, Kincaid started as an K-12 teacher in New Orleans, Louisiana, eventually advancing to school-level administrator roles.

He's since founded Overcoming Racism, a national organization that provides workshop intensives, leadership and board coaching and consultations around anti-racism and equity. Comprised of former public school educator and administrator, they initially served K-12 public education and nonprofits exclusively, but after the George Floyd murder, by word of mouth, companies in other sectors requested their services, including the NBA, NYC Department of Education, Princeton University, Turnaround Arts for the Kennedy Center, Red Bull and others.

Kincaid is currently co-chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee for the Human Relations Commission serving the city of New Orleans and an Amaphiko Social Entrepreneurship Fellow. His work has been featured in the Washington Post, Mashable, GOOD magazine and AFROpunk.

In 2018 Kincaid was recognized as one of “100 Visionary Leaders” for Real Leaders Magazine and received the U.S. Small Business Administration's “Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award” for the state of Louisiana. In 2019, Kincaid was recognized as Gambit’s 40 under 40.

In Summer 2020 height of the national racial reckoning, he went viral in a post giving white people advice about racism.