Meet Freddie Hamilton,
Your DEI Consultant
Ms. Hamilton is a community activist and DEI consultant committed to social change.
She provides leadership and guidance to help nonprofit organizations in their efforts to transition to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Freddie has over 30 years of experience as a not-for-profit generalist, and twelve years of experience as a DEI consultant.
She brings to her work the lived experiences of an African-American woman who has lived through much of America’s contemporary history and social movements, including the civil rights movement, the women’s equal rights movement, and the LGBTQ+ movement for equality and justice.
Until her retirement in 2006, Freddie was the founder and CEO/Executive Director of Child Development Support Corporation in Brooklyn New York. Freddie and her husband relocated to upstate New York in 2012.
In 2019, Freddie briefly served on the Utica Common Council to fulfill the term of the late Councilmember Bill Phillips. Presently, Freddie is the executive director of Rebuilding the Village, a community based not-for-profit in the Cornhill neighborhood of Utica. And the president of the Utica/Oneida County chapter of the NAACP.
Freddie also serves on the board of directors of the MV Housing and Homeless Coalition Continuum of Care (CoC), the board of directors of the New Forest Cemetery, the board of directors of MUNPC, and is a founding member of MUNSON’s African-American Community Partners (AACP).
She is the proud mother of five children and six grandchildren.
