The Rev. Cecil Charles Prescod is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and a brother in the Order of Corpus Christi, an evangelical catholic religious order. Cecil serves as Associate Pastor at Ainsworth United Church of Christ in Portland, OR.
He holds a B.A in Philosophy from Haverford College (PA), and a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.
Cecil has been active in social justice issues since his youth. Among the organizations that he has worked with are Ministers for Racial Social and Economic Justice (MRSJ) and United Black Christians in the United Church of Christ, Mackenzie River Gathering Foundation, the Urban League of Portland, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Love Makes A Family, Inc, Brother to Brother, the American Friends Service Committee, KBOO Radio, and PFLAG-Portland Black Chapter.
In 2022 Multnomah County of Commissioners awarded Prescod the Gladys McCoy Lifetime Achievement Award for his “outstanding volunteer service, dedicated to improving the community.”
In 2002 Cecil received the Russell Peyton Human Rights Award from the Metropolitan Human Rights Center.
In 2012 Cecil was recognized as one of the Queer Heroes NW by the Q Center and the Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (GLAPN).