Charles Hawthorne is a trainer for the Harm Reduction Training Institute and Outreach Project in partnership with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, working passionately to deliver training and technical assistance to organizations in the Bay Area and the greater San Francisco region that impacts the lives of PLWHA, PWUD, PWID and LGBTQ+ communities.

Charles works to foster partnerships with other organizations in the Bay Area that do social justice and harm reduction work while helping to expand reach and capacity to communities experiencing disproportionately punitive impacts of racialized drug policies.