Reed Christian

Reed Christian has worked with low-income and homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth who are marginally housed and street involved, in foster care, and shelter systems in Los Angeles and New York City. He is a graduate of the Hunter College School of Social Work and currently serves as the Director of The Callen-Lorde Community Health Center’s Health Outreach to Teens Program, which provides a vital link to free health care including sexual and reproductive health services, family planning, primary transgender related health care and hormone replacement therapy, mental health support, prevention services for HIV/STI/unwanted pregnancy, case management, free pharmaceutical access, and youth development programming. Formerly, Reed supervised Integrated Services to Runaway and Homeless Youth at The Door—A Center of Alternatives in New York City and with homeless and street involved youth at The Jeff Griffith Drop-in Center at the LA GLBT Center in Los Angeles. Reed sat on the Board of Directors of Queers for Economic Justice from 2005-2009.