We are building something.
Grassroots founders charted a Bluegrass resurgence
Staff
Executive Director
Waymen Eddings
He leads Complexion’s governance, statewide partnerships, and the KSU Urban Institute initiative, shaping programs that strengthen families, housing, and community revitalization.
Key Collaborator, Social Programs
Mattie Morton
She is a compassionate leader advancing Complexion’s social programs, supporting single mothers, abused women, and foster-engaged youth with healing services, housing support, life skills, and pathways to independence.
Key Collaborator, Project Thunderbolt
Anthony Skinner
He leads Complexion’s technology and infrastructure initiatives, guiding Project Thunderbolt and advancing innovative, energy-ready solutions that prepare communities for future growth and opportunity.
Directors and Founders
Chairman and CEO, Min. ‘Big Mike’ Johnson
The minister is a trusted statewide leader guiding Complexion’s vision, strengthening governance, and building partnerships that uplift families, youth, and communities through coordinated programs, safety improvements, and redevelopment initiatives.
History
We are East Lexington neighbors, church families, and Kentucky believers who refuse to let decline be our children’s inheritance. Using proven, private-sector, asset-based methods, we are pressing three historic levers at once to flip decades of decline into irreversible prosperity — first here, then statewide.
Complexion Community Development Corporation was founded in 2017 to stop East Lexington families from being displaced by social decline and rising rents. Since Michael Johnson became CEO in late 2018, we have planted gardens, connected parents to living-wage jobs through church-employer partnerships, and saved taxpayers millions. Now, in 2025, we promote the Kentucky Tipping Point—pressing People, Places, and Power together to make decline impossible and prosperity the default.
We Are Building Something
a Lexington, KY based 501c3 charity