Mohamed Q. Amin

Mohamed Q. Amin (he/they) an Indo-Caribbean, Queer, and Muslim immigrant, an LGBTQ+ rights activist, who calls Richmond Hill, Little Guyana in Queens home. In 2015, he turned trauma into activism by founding the Caribbean Equality Project, a NYC-based grassroots community organization that advocates for Caribbean LGBTQ+ voices in New York City. Amin is a survivor of anti-LGBTQ+ hate violence and creative whose intersectional and transnational organizing is grounded in the power of storytelling and advocacy, centered on protecting LGBTQ+ immigrants and asylum seekers, fighting for immigration and housing resources, worker's rights, racial justice, mental health, and building political power through civic engagement in Caribbean neighborhoods in NYC.

Amin is a cultural producer, the Director of My Truth, My Story, an oral history campaign, and the curator of two multimedia, interdisciplinary exhibitions, Queer Caribbeans of NYC | Stonewall 50 and Live Pridefully: Love and Resilience within Pandemics. In 2017, he co-founded the annual LGBTQ+ Community Iftar, a multicultural space for Queer Muslims in NYC, and leads the Phagwah Social Justice Collective, a Hindu-centered coalition of LGBTQ+ and gender justice organizations that participates in North America's largest celebration of Holi/Phagwah in Queens, NY. As a community organizer, political activator, and coalition leader, Amin's work has been profiled in many notable media outlets, including The New York Times, CBS News New York, Pix11 News, and Gay City News, to name a few.

In 2019, Amin was selected as a New York State ambassador for World Pride, commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion in NYC. That same year, he was honored by Gay City News with an "Impact Award" for his work with the Caribbean Equality Project, the first for a Caribbean LGBTQ immigrant organizer in NYC. In 2023 and 2024, he was named one of New York's LGBTQ+ Power Players by amny, PoliticsNY, and Gay City News! In 2024, Amin was featured on the City and State 2024 Queens Power 100 list, amplifying his political organizing and redistricting advocacy. Amin is the executive producer of Caribbean Queen, a short film that explores the intersectionality of queer joy, Caribbean culture, and belonging in the thriving Caribbean NYC diaspora.

Amin holds a B.A. in Economics, has over fourteen years of management experience in retail banking and financial literacy program development in immigrant communities, and is currently pursuing a Master's in Political Science at his alma mater, Queens College.

To learn more about Amin, connect with him on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @MohamedQAmin.