_Johnathon Briggs
Johnathon Briggs is vice president of communications at the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC), one of the nation’s leading AIDS organizations. Prior to joining AFC, Briggs was an urban affairs reporter at the Chicago Tribune, where he wrote primarily about gentrification, minority communities, HIV/AIDS and youth culture.
From 2000 to 2004, Briggs was an award-winning journalist at The Baltimore Sun where he won several honors including the Chesapeake Associated Press Mark Twain Award for best feature series of 2003, a
Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild Front Page Award for local news reporting and the Tribune Co. Innovation Award for helping to increase African-American readership. Briggs has worked overseas as an editor at the South Africa-based magazine, Challenge: Churches and People; as a staff reporter at The
Chicago Reporter, an investigative monthly magazine focused on race and poverty issues; and as a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. His freelance work and writings have appeared in The Source, the magazine of hip-hop music, culture and politics, Princeton Alumni Weekly, and Timbooktu.com.
A Los Angeles native, Briggs has bachelor’s degrees from Stanford University in Communications and African/Afro-American Studies.
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