Principal for a Day w/ Dr. Maurice Franklin, California Northridge

What

Principal for a Day w/ Dr. Maurice Franklin, California Northridge

When

5/9/2024

Dr. Franklin lectures and consults on organizational sustainability and organizational development strategies. Dr. Franklin has previously served as an advisor to Dallas, Texas Mayor Mike Rawlings. Dr. Franklin’s published academic work focuses on Governance, Sustainability, and Strategic Thinking of African American HIV/AIDS Organizations. Dr. Franklin served in the United States Naval. Dr. Franklin was the face and represented Black Gays and Lesbians, during the Clinton Administration and worked directly for the Gays in the Military Campaign. Those efforts lead us to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Maurice is a current member of the Department of Veteran Affairs Community Advisory Board, Vice President of Harlem Hospital Community Advisory Board, Harlem’s Community Board-10 and the Prince Hall Medical Foundation Board. Currently, Dr. Franklin, serves as faculty, in the School of Public Administration at California State University Northridge. Dr. Franklin's recent journal articles focus on African American HIV/AIDS Organizations, and Social Inequity, during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Maurice has worked for Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), where he served as a member of the executive staff and senior advisor, to Dr. Joseph E. Lowery. Dr. Franklin assisted Dr. Stephen Thomas, Ph.D., and Sandra Quinn, M.Ed., by providing the resources for their HIV/AIDS and Syphilis study on the Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors (KABB), of African American faith members. Their study findings assisted HIV/AIDS community-based organizations and researchers understand the influence faith and culture have on HIV/AIDS education and knowledge barriers of African American faith members. Dr. Franklin has been featured on PBS, New York Times, and countless magazines and other publications. He wrote a seminal article chronicling the forty years of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Black Gay men for the Reckoning. Maurice is a founding member of the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), an African American Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Organization, the Black AIDS Institute, and Second Sunday a Black Gay support group based in Atlanta Georgia. His services also include leadership on the board of The Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum and Gay Men of African Descent. In June of 2001, Dr. Franklin coordinated and hosted the first Black Same Gender love retreat and skills-building conference on the campus of Brown University. This retreat included over three hundred of the nation’s leading Black Gay academics and social thinkers. Franklin is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, One Hundred Black Men, and Prince Hall Masons. Dr. Franklin attributes his activism and social justice commitment to the influences of James Baldwin, Marcus Garvey, and his cousin Dr. John Hope Franklin, founder of the African American Museum in Washington D.C. Dr. Franklin lives in Central Harlem.