Guided by best practices in community-engaged research, including building trust, equity, respect, and capacity-building, our study enlists the expertise of community stakeholders via our Community Advisory Board (CAB) to improve living donors’ informed decision making about donation.  The CAB meets monthly to provide feedback on: study design, study recruitment and retention, informed consent, data collection procedures, data interpretation, and troubleshooting data collection challenges. The CAB also assists with ensuring that the intervention components are culturally sensitive so as to increase receptivity to APOL1 counseling by living donor candidates of African ancestry, and to help minimize the potential for the stigmatization of African Americans and other groups.