Kaj Najee Gumbs
Morehouse College Student and Millennial Activist
Kaj Najee Gumbs is an active 20 year old rising senior at the prestigious Morehouse College. As a student at Morehouse he has taken on many roles. In 2014 Kaj Became the youngest Keynote speaker at the Chantilly Pyramid Minority Student Achievement Committee’s (CPMSAC) annual award ceremony; the largest minority Award Ceremony in the State of Virginia.
Over the last two summers Kaj has worked as a Public Affairs and Political Affairs Summer employee for the United States Ambassador to Canada, Bruce Heyman. While working for the United States Ambassador to Canada, Kaj worked as a direct point of contact between the State Department and the Canadian and U.S. sports teams during the Pan-American Games in Toronto, Canada, the largest sporting event to ever be held in the country.
In June of 2015 he was appointed as a Peace Corps Campus Ambassador to the campuses of Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Clark Atlanta. Later that year he was elected as the Vice President of the Morehouse College Young Democrats of America, a term that would later be followed by being elected by just one vote in a tough election season to serve as the 2016-2017 President of the Morehouse College Young Democrats of America. Currently, Kaj, works for Razor Solutions Group LLC., a political consulting and fundraising firm that covers a plethora of political candidates include the campaign of Atlanta City Council President, Ceasar Mitchell as he runs for Mayor of Atlanta.
At the beginning of 2016 he was appointed and sworn in as the youngest Georgia NAACP Youth and College Division Political Action Committee Chairman in the state chapter’s history.
Over his short tenure with his position, Kaj has set a strict agenda for himself. Over a period of two months he has done community outreach and taken on fights against legislation in the state of Georgia such as: Georgia House Bill 859 that allows the concealed carry of a firearm on public colleges in the state of Georgia, and Georgia House Bill 757 that allows the discrimination of LGBTQIA folk from being served by any business that feels it against their religion.
Kaj has testified in front of the Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee to speak out in opposition of House Bill 859. Once the bill was ultimately passed, Kaj has been an outspoken advocate against the bill, and has worked to continuously put Governor Nathan Deal to veto the bill.