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Our Leadership

Leadership Shows the Way

Real Men Charities, Inc. desires to work with any individual, group, or organization interested in the progression, empowerment, and cultivation of men and their families within the black and brown communities of The United States and the World. If you would like to join our initiative, or have a similar platform, or idea you would like to build with us, feel free to contact our leadership listed below:
Yvette Moyo
Founder

Marketing and nonprofit executive Yvette Moyo was born in Chicago, Illinois to Rudolph and Pauline Jackson. Moyo grew up in Chicago and attended South Shore High School. She graduated from Eastern Illinois University in 1974 with her B.A. degree in Afro-American Studies. In 1992, Moyo launched the Marketing Opportunities in Business & Entertainment (MOBE) advanced marketing symposium series.

Moyo is the co-creator of two books: Real Men Cook: More Than 100 Easy Recipes Celebrating Tradition and Family, published by Kofi Moyo in 2005; and Real Women Cook: Building Healthy Communities with Recipes that Stir the Soul, co-authored with Sharon Morgan in 2012. Moyo was honored in 1988 as one of the “100 Women to Watch” in Today’s Chicago Woman. She has also been the recipient of multiple awards, including the Public Relations Advertising and Marketing Excellence Award, the Woman in Entertainment Pioneer Award, the 50 Women of Excellence Award, Trailblazer/Women in the Fatherhood Movement Award presented by Congressman Danny Davis, YMCA’s Black Achievers Award, and the Black Women’s Hall of Fame Kizzy Award.

Rael Jackson
Program Manager

Rael Jackson has served as The Quarry Arts & Entertainment Center since 2022. And was named Real Men Cook president in 2014. He is a Chicago native most passionate about his educational experiences at Beasley Elementary, Whitney Young abd Florida A& M. A reading and health enthusiast he is active in and Omega Psi Phi and proudly includes all fraternity representation in the annual Father’s Day celebrations, celebrating 35 consecutive years in 2024.. 

Dyi Kinney
Community Health & Wellness Consultant

Dyi Kinney, MD, MPH, MAT serves as Real Men Charities’ community health and wellness consultant and leads art teaching initiatives with a focus on social and mental healing.

Daryl Holmes
Community Development/Health & Wellness
A former Cook County Planner, member of  and a former City Councilman in Texas, who survived an ischemic stroke, a life altering attack on my brain. He understands, increasingly through his Real Men Charities engagement, that Black men are more likely to have a Stroke and less likely to survive a stroke.  His aim is that his participation in a clinical trial for stroke survivors for several years will help to increase the number of Black stroke survivors.  
 
Most recently he has been diagnosed and treated for Prostate Cancer. He attribute early detection to work with RMC and required military medical examinations as an educator for the Navy.  His PSA numbers have been drastically reduced and he ais vibrant, traveling, and now retired as a civilian from the Navy. 
 
His service and health and experiences allows him to see first hand, the  disparities in health and wellness that kill Black men at a higher rate.  These diseases are a threat to him and men like him.  He is a Soldier, and will fight to neutralize these health killers.
Tony Carpenter
Master Percussionist

Tony Carpenter serves a creative and cultural consulting, production and healing drum initiatives. Long time production manager at Trinity United Church of Christ, he brings a wealth of experience and currently manages the Quarry Arts & Entertainment Center’s production archives for Real Men Charities.

Tony Carpenter
Program Manager

Ranoule Tatum has served as a Health and Wellness program manager of Real Men Charities’ prostate cancer awareness and screening work, which started with Dr. Mason and Joe Harrington in 1999. A screening at a Real Men Cook Father’s Day event motivated his early screening. As a survivor since 2001, he continues to represent RMC and his individual in initiatives.

Chef Julian Valentine
Media Spokesperson

Chef Julian Valentine, Real Men Cook Media Spokesperson since he was 2012 and heads food operations for the Metzler Restaurant in Hyde Park.