Kinyata Gray
Director of Public Relations
Kinyata C. Gray serves as the Employee Relations Manager in the Human Resources Department for St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro, AR. In her role, Kinyata advises leaders on employment policies and practices, assists employees with workplace concerns and facilitates positive working relationships between leadership and staff. She loves the variety, complexity, and ever-changing dynamics of her position. Most importantly, she is thankful for the opportunity for growth at St. Bernards as she has been promoted four times in her seven years at St. Bernards. She has held the titles of Staffing Coordinator, Employment Coordinator, and Human Resources Generalist I and II.
Kinyata is originally from Searcy, Arkansas where she graduated from Searcy High School in 2007 and from Harding University in 2011. She attained her Bachelor of Business Administration majoring in Health Care Administration with Cum Laude distinction. Recently, she took on the endeavor of attaining her Master in Business Administration from the University of Central Arkansas. After a grueling year and a half of full-time work and school, Kinyata was awarded her MBA in December of 2018.
Kinyata prides herself on being a self-starter, an innate learner, and a lover of the healthcare and Human Resources world. She attained her Professional in Human Resources Certification (PHR) and her Society for Human Resource Management Certified Professional (SHRM-CP) designation in 2015. She has served on the Northeast Arkansas Society for Human Resource Management board as the Director of Communications from 2016-2018 and currently holds the position of Director of Legislative Affairs. She was approached by the Arkansas Society for Human Resource Management state council to serve as Arkansas’ Young Professionals Director, and she has served in that position since 2018. She was awarded the J.C. Cote Memorial Scholarship Award in April of 2018 for her commitment and continuing education in the Human Resources field.
Kinyata absolutely loves to travel and attend concerts. Specifically she loves to travel to see Beyonce’, and is proud to have seen her musical icon in concert four times. She is also a diehard Chicago Cubs fan. In her spare time, Kinyata loves to binge watch television shows, spend time with family and friends, and contemplate “side hustles”. She has dabbled in modeling, DJ’ing, and most famously acting. She held a featured extra role in the number one Hallmark holiday movie of 2018, Christmas at Graceland.
Kinyata enjoys learning, growing, and developing as a professional and as an individual. She is excited to hold the role of Director of Public Relations for the Black Professionals’ Network as we continue to live, learn, lead, and link in our community.