Nearly a year after being named the interim leader of a San Francisco LGBTQ youth agency, Toni Newman will be departing to help run a beleaguered Black AIDS nonprofit on a limited basis.
It will be the third prominent LGBTQ organization based in California that Newman has led in the last two years. Last October, the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center in San Francisco's LGBTQ Castro district brought on Newman in an interim capacity following the departure of its longtime executive director.
Jodi Schwartz, a queer woman, had led LYRIC for 15 years and transitioned into overseeing its capital campaign for planned renovations of its building.