Amit Paley is the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of The Trevor Project, the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ young people. He began as a counselor on The Trevor Project’s 24/7 Trevor Lifeline in 2011, and since then he has answered hundreds of calls from LGBTQ youth in crisis.During his tenure, The Trevor Project has built and launched a new, integrated crisis services platform, expanded its chat and text services to 24/7, and more than tripled the number of youth served each month. The Trevor Project also now operates the largest grassroots campaign in the world to end conversion therapy. Amit serves on theNational Suicide Prevention Lifeline Steering Committee and the Executive Committee of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention and is a renowned expert on the mental health of LGBTQ young people and suicide prevention.