128: Let Queerly Health Give You Life This Pride Season with Co-Founder + CEO Derrick Reyes

Written By Rhodes Perry

Derrick Reyes is the Co-Founder and CEO of Queerly Health. Queerly Health is an online marketplace of LGBTQ+ culturally responsive health and wellness providers, telehealth capabilities, and concierge health services. With a background in LGBTQ+ health, education, and social services, and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, Derrick knows firsthand how difficult it is for LGBTQ+ people to access basic health related services. They also deeply understand digital health’s potential to create some much needed change.

Committed to centering LGBTQ+ people in digital health, Derrick manifested the idea for Queerly Health and successfully pitched it at a Latinx in Tech Startup Weekend event, winning first place as the crowd favorite. Derrick also presented Queerly Health at SXSW 2019, and at the Women of Color Connecting conference at Google. Their new company continues to enjoy tremendous success, and for that, Derrick is a true Out Boss crushing it in business! Look out for the nationwide launch of Queerly Health in 2020. 

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Questions Answered in this Episode

·      Who is Derrick, and what does their business do?

·      What motivated Derrick to start their own business?

·      What does Derrick want you to know about LGBTQ+ health?

·      How does Derrick empower LGBTQ+ communities?

·      How can you get in touch with Derrick and their business?

Resources Shared in this Episode

·      Visit Queerly Health’s Website

·      Follow Queerly Health on LinkedIn

·      Follow Queerly Health on Instagram

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Rhodes Perry

Rhodes Perry, MPA is an award-winning social entrepreneur, best-selling author, and keynote speaker. He helps leaders build belonging at work to achieve industry breakthroughs. His firm offers transformative leadership development, change management, and capacity building solutions for senior executives focused on advancing their organizations’ diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) commitments. Nationally recognized as a LGBTQ+ thought leader, he has two decades of government and nonprofit experience having worked at the White House, PFLAG National, and the City of New York. Media outlets like Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press have featured his powerful work as a (DEI) influencer.

http://www.rhodesperry.com
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