Stonewall hires new chief

The Chico Stonewall Alliance Center—Chico’s preeminent LGBTQ-advocacy organization—soon will have new leadership with the hiring of Celeste Cramer as executive director.

Cramer, administrative analyst for the Butte County Department of Behavioral Health, starts July 1. She also runs an event-planning and marketing business, and serves on the foundation board of Inspire School of Arts & Sciences, a Chico charter high school.

She arrives just over a year after an organizational shake-up in which the center’s board fired then-Executive Director Thomas Kelem (pictured), then underwent board member changes (see “Fresh start for Stonewall,” Newslines, July 12, 2018).