Celebrity Friday: Cary Alan Johnson

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission has announced that Cary Alan Johnson will become their executive director effective March 1, 2009. Since I served on the Board of Directors of the organization from 1996 to 2002 I still keep pretty close tabs on IGLHRC's doing and am in pretty close contact with most of their executive directors, although I have never met Mr. Johnson. 

For example, I ran into Julie Dorf, IGLHRC's founder and first executive director at Creating Change 2009 in Denver in January which she was attending as part of her work with a new organization called the Global Council for Equality.

Juie Dorf's successor was Surina Khan who attended a fundraiser for Judy Chu's congressional campaign to fill the seat vacated by currentLabor Secretary Hilda Solis

in the 32nd District that I also attended and was on the Host Committee for.

I ran into Surina Khan's successor Paula Ettelbrick at the Global Arc of Justice conference last week at UCLA Law School, and she was excited about being unemployed for the first time in her adult life.

It's like some kind of six degrees of separation game with IGLHRC's executive directors and I am Kevin Bacon!