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Christian David Green is an American educator, community organizer, author, political activist, and foster youth advocate based in the Los Angeles area. He is notable as the founding professor of African American Studies at West Los Angeles College, where he has taught since 2023 and built the department's curriculum from the ground up. Green also serves as Policy and Advocacy Director of Sanctuary of Hope, a nonprofit organization serving transitional age youth, and is a national ambassador for the U.S. Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Coalition.

Born in a prison cell to an incarcerated mother, Green was raised in the foster care system in Lancaster, California. He became a first-generation college graduate, earning both a bachelor's and a master's degree from UCLA. His 2018 memoir, Uncovering Your Worth: From Legal Custody to UCLA, documents his journey through the child welfare system and has taken him on a national speaking tour. His career spans academia, electoral politics, grassroots organizing, and LGBTQ+ justice advocacy.

Christian David Green was born in a prison cell to an incarcerated mother; his father was unknown. He grew up in the foster care system in the Antelope Valley, primarily in Lancaster, California — an experience that would define much of his later advocacy work. Green has described overcoming circumstances that were "rare, atypical, and uncommon to others."^[1]

Before transferring to UCLA, Green attended Mt. San Antonio College, where he graduated as an Honors Program student and was a member of the nationally ranked forensics team, earning an Individual National Championship Gold Medal in Poetry Interpretation and membership on the 2014 National Championship speech and debate team.^[2] He also earned an Associate of Arts degree in Psychology from Mt. SAC.

Green transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a minor in African American Studies in spring 2016. He was a recipient of the Wasserman Transfer Alliance Program Scholarship (2014–2016).

He continued at UCLA for graduate study in the Department of African American Studies, receiving the Graduate Opportunity Fellowship Award (2016–2017) and the UCLA Gold Shield Alumnae Graduate Fellowship (2017–2018), awarded for outstanding leadership. He served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the African American Studies Department and was honored with the Mark Q. Sawyer Memorial Prize in 2018. He was also a member of UCLA's award-winning Mock Trial national team.^[2]

Green completed his Master of Arts in African American Studies — with concentrations in Public Policy, History, Education, and Sociology — in spring 2018.

In August 2023, Green was hired as a Tenure-Track Professor of African American Studies at West Los Angeles College (WLAC), a campus of the Los Angeles Community College District. He is recognized as the first African American Studies professor at the institution, where he has been responsible for building out the discipline's curriculum and departmental structure.^[1]

At WLAC, Green teaches courses including African American Studies 004, 005, and 019, and serves as an advisory board member for the Black Scholars United/Umoja program, the LGBTQ student center, Rising Scholars (formerly incarcerated students), and the Next UP foster youth program. In 2025, he founded the Marquice Wallace Scholarship at the college, designated for formerly incarcerated scholars pursuing African American Studies. He also organized and served as chief planner for WLAC's inaugural Ethnic Studies Week in October 2024.^[2]

Prior to his tenure-track appointment, Green taught as adjunct faculty across multiple Southern California institutions:

• Compton College (2020–present): Sociology of the Family; Introduction to Ethnic Studies (dual enrollment); Introduction to Criminology; The African American in the United States (1877 to Present)
• Antelope Valley College (2021–2022): Sociology of Chicano/a Studies; Sociology of Ethnic Relations
• Pasadena City College (2019–present): Introduction to Sociology (Early College High School); Sociology of the Family; Introduction to Ethnic Studies
• Los Angeles Trade-Tech College (2019–2020): United States History I: West Africa to America; African American History from Post-Reconstruction to the Present
• California State University, Dominguez Hills (2019–present): Guest Lecturer, Africana Studies — Hip Hop and The Intersection of Rap, Class, Race, Gender and Sexuality

Since April 2022, Green has served as Policy and Advocacy Director for Sanctuary of Hope (SOH), a nonprofit organization focused on transitional age youth (TAY), LGBTQ+ communities, and housing security in the Antelope Valley. In this role he established a Resource Navigation Center in the Antelope Valley, co-created and funded the Talk of the Town Drill Team and the King of the North Drum Squad — programs serving over 30 Black families from disadvantaged communities — and built a multi-denominational coalition by facilitating roundtables with more than 20 Antelope Valley pastors and religious leaders.^[2]

Green established four fellowships at SOH focused on advocacy, character, and leadership development for LGBTQ+ youth, named in honor of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin. Sanctuary of Hope was recognized as Non-Profit of the Year by Assemblymember Isaac Bryan in 2023 and by Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas in 2024.

From March 2021 to June 2022, Green served as Campaign Coordinator for Cancel the Contract Antelope Valley, a campaign opposing the presence of Los Angeles Sheriff's Department deputies in Antelope Valley schools following a widely covered incident in which a deputy body-slammed a Black female student. Green's advocacy received national media attention, including coverage in Newsweek, ProPublica, LAist, and CBS Los Angeles.^[3][4]

Beginning in December 2020, Green has served as a Campaign Strategist and Ambassador for the U.S. Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Commission Coalition, a national initiative. In this role he coordinated outreach to state and federal legislators, developed training curricula, and spoke at events including a 2021 workshop for the UC Student Association and a June 2021 presentation at Suffolk University on H.Con.Res. 19.^[5]

From April to October 2023, Green served as Coalition Manager for the Brothers Sons and Selves (BSS) Coalition, a Los Angeles County organization focused on young men of color. He executed an LGBTQ+ Youth Social Justice Fellowship for six fellows, organized a summer retreat for 50+ youth and staff, sent two cohorts to Sacramento to advocate for SB274, and applied for over $3 million in grant funding during his tenure.^[2]

In December 2020 and January 2021, Green served as a Field Canvasser for the Ossoff/Warnock Georgia Senate runoff campaigns, canvassing over 6,000 homes in DeKalb County and training volunteers. The campaigns' victories returned Democratic control of the United States Senate.

Green has twice run for public office in the Antelope Valley.

In 2019–2020, he campaigned for Lancaster City Council, raising over $15,000 from more than 120 donors, hosting community events that fed over 10,000 students and families, and receiving more than 4,000 votes.^[2]

In 2020, he ran for the Antelope Valley Union High School District school board, raising $16,000 from over 168 donors and receiving more than 8,000 votes across Lancaster and Palmdale.^[2] Both campaigns utilized Political Data Inc. (PDI) voter-targeting tools and prioritized coalition-building with political leaders, clergy, and elected officials.

In 2018, Green published his debut memoir, Uncovering Your Worth: From Legal Custody to UCLA (Confessions Publishing Company), a first-person account of navigating the foster care system and achieving academic success at UCLA.^[6]

He contributed to the Best Start Region 5 State of the Child Report (August 2023, Catalyst California/Children's Bureau) and the State of Black Los Angeles County Report: Companion Piece (May 2023, County of Los Angeles Anti-Racism, Diversity and Inclusion initiative).^[7] He also served as a research assistant to Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter on Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life (University of California Press, 2018) and contributed archival research for Destination Crenshaw at UCLA.^[2]

Green has been featured or quoted in national and regional outlets including:

• The New York Times (June 2020)^[8]
• Newsweek (multiple articles on the Cancel the Contract campaign)^[3]
• ProPublica^[4]
• LAist / KPCC
• CBS Los Angeles
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Antelope Valley Press and Antelope Valley Times

Green has served on the UCLA Black Alumni Board and the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA-LA) Board since 2021. He previously served as Graduate and External Affairs Representative on the UC Statewide student board (2016–2018).

• LA County DA LGBTQ Advisory Board – Christian D. Green Bio
• UCSA 2021 SLC – Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Workshop