Kai K. Fuentes

Kai K. Fuentes brings over three decades of experience as a second generation “research brat” who did her first in-depth interview at age 12. She founded Ebony Marketing Systems to address the lack of multicultural research agencies serving the growth of multicultural markets. Ebony Marketing Systems (EMS) projects are assigned a culturally-fluent team, not forcing a single team member to represent a culture.

EMS clients include: AirBnb, Centers for Disease Control, New York Life Insurance Company, Franklin Templeton, Telemundo, New York State Transit, New Jersey Transit, Black Women’s Health Alliance, Environmental Protection Agency, the National Park Systems of the United States, Pew Research.

Together, Kai and EMS have been recognized with the NYNJ Purchasing Council as a top business leader in New York City; Insights Association Laureate; Bronx Woman of the Year; Insights 250 Global Innovator and Leader, and was most recently recognized as a 2026 Women of Color Innovator Transforming Our Economy by NYC Celebrates Women. Kai rises daily vowing never to punch a time clock.