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Celena Morrison is a voice of hope in turbulent times
The city s head of LGBT Affairs comes up on her one-year anniversary on the job in March. She s tackled everything from the pandemic to transgender murders.
Nothing could have prepared Celena Morrison for her first month on the job.
In late-March, rumors were spreading across Philadelphia of impending furloughs and business closures. Despite the panic, Morrison was just getting familiar with her new office City Hall. Her boss? Mayor Jim Kenney.
That only lasted a little over a week. The office part, that is.
For the past nine months, Philadelphia’s newly-appointed executive director of LGBT Affairs has been calling the shots entirely from home, serving as the top link between Philly’s LGBTQ+ community and the Kenney administration. City Hall has remained shuttered throughout the pandemic, weathering a turbulent period of lockdowns, reopenings and more lockdowns.