Christian Giraldo

Program Officer, U.S. Fund

Christian ‘Chicklet’ Giraldo

Christian aka Chris or Chicklet is a community organizer, social worker, mental health counselor, queer sex worker activist, musician, city biker, transcendental meditator, and yoga enthusiast based in Indigenous Canarsee Munsee Lenape land, aka Brooklyn, New York. Most recently, Christian held the role of Director of Programs at Third Wave Fund, overseeing the organization's grantmaking in service of resourcing youth-led movements in the U.S. working toward gender and reproductive justice, queer and trans liberation, racial and migrant justice, disability justice, the abolition of the carceral police state, and sex work decriminalization. 

Chris enjoys living in and being part of a queer collective house and community space in Brooklyn and spends part of the year hanging out in queer community land projects in rural Tennessee. In their spare time, you can usually find Chris tinkering with analog synthesizers, geeking out about raccoons, tending to their garden, napping on the beach, DJing, biking from one corner of Brooklyn to the other in search of vegan eateries, going on long road trips, reading about relationship anarchy and attachment theory, and finding quiet woodland areas to meditate.