keithgreen

Keith R. Green is a nationally recognized spoken word artist, HIV/AIDS activist, social justice advocate, and community journalist, hailing from Chicago’s south side. As a Ronald E. McNair Scholar out of Northeastern Illinois University, he received an Advance Opportunity Fellowship to complete his Master’s studies in the Mental Health concentration within the School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Keith currently serves as project director for Project PrEPare, a research study currently enrolling in Chicago, designed to explore the acceptability and feasibility of an HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) trial among young men who have sex with men. In addition, he is also a practicing psychotherapist in the Adolescent/Young Adult Clinic at the John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County.

Keith maintains a regular column in the nation’s most widely read HIV treatment education journal, Positively Aware, and has been a frequent contributor to both TheBody.com and BlackAIDS.org. He is also a founding member of the Chicago Black Gay Men’s Caucus, and intends to begin doctoral studies in Social Welfare Policy or Community Psychology the fall of 2010.