Kiku Johnson Speaks
Speaker
- Kiku Johnson, Executive Director of the Rainbow Community Center
Summary
Join us for a special PRIDE month June NAMI CC virtual General Meeting as we featured Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County Executive Director, Kiku Johnson, who discussed topics such as the history of PRIDE month, his background, and his work to advance efforts surrounding mental health in the LGBTQI+ community.
About Kiku Johnson
Kiku is an out and proud Transgender Man of Color using he/him/his pronouns. As an educator, trainer, and consultant, he traveled the country educating on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Affirming Approach and Expansive Practices connected with the CDC funded handbook he authored that is open source. He is a Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy, Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Supporting LGBTQ Youth Program Fellow. Kiku is also the Executive Director of Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County in the Bay Area of Northern California.
Kiku has 30 years of experience with youth development, responsive community program design, outreach, implementation, impact/evaluation, and advocacy through a social justice lens. He engages a human-centered design thinking approach with diversity, equity, and expansion practices. Kiku is adept at creating culturally and trauma-informed, accessible, affirming approaches and content for a wide variety of intersectional communities, including LGBTQI+, People of Color, youth, and adults working across sectors, including juvenile justice, education, mental health, community-based, and faith-based organizations.
