Antoine B. Craigwell is founder, president, and CEO of DBGM, Inc.

Trained as a journalist, Antoine wrote for several local and national publications. He graduated from Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New York, and in 2008 he earned awards from the New York Association of Black Journalists. He produced the documentary “You Are Not Alone” and facilitates discussion fora on depression in Black gay men. He presented a poster exhibition “Examining Depression and HIV in Black gay men” at the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, and in 2013 founded DBGM, Inc., a non-profit organization committed to raising awareness of the underlying factors contributing to depression and suicidal ideation in Black gay men. Antoine presented workshops on the convergence of HIV and mental health, and as a keynote speaker at several national and international conferences. He provides training in LGBT peoples of color cultural competency, mental health and HIV, for the Washington DC Court System and lectures in this subject to medical students attending Touro College of Osteopathy. He is a certified National Mental Health First Aid Instructor. In publication, he was featured in several magazines, including “Headcase - an Anthology of LGBTQ Writers and Artists on Mental Health and Wellness”, published by Oxford University Press, Feb 2019, and in the NY Governor’s Suicide Prevention Report “Considerations and Contexts for Treatment – the Whole Person”, April 2019.

Together with DBGM, he hosted the first-ever LGBT Peoples of Color Mental Health Summit at Rutgers University, Newark Campus in 2014, and from 2015 to present, In My Mind – a Mental Health Conference for LGBTQ+ Peoples of Color, which in 2019 celebrated its fifth anniversary and was recognized with a Citation from NY State Governor Andrew Cuomo and a Proclamation from NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio declaring October 10, 2019 “In My Mind Day”. He appeared on several radio (online and in studio) shows, television interviews – on ARISE TV, ABC Channel 7 “Here and Now, with Sandra Bookman”, “In Focus with Cheryl Wills” on NY1, BronxNet TV, and BRIC TV in Brooklyn. He was a guest panelist on BBC World News “Have Your Say” radio program, on Mental Health Radio, and Caribbean Power Jam. Antoine serves on the NY State Multicultural Advisory Council, is a chair of the NYC DOHMH LGBT CSB Task Force, is a member of the NYS LGBT Network, is a NYC SGL Equality Coalition steering committee member, is a member of Guyanese In The Diaspora, Inc., and was a member of the New York State Suicide Prevention Task Force.