Ryan Berg is the program manager for Avenues for Youth’s ConneQT Host Home Program. ConneQT provides LGBTQI+ youth with culturally responsive housing within their community of chouice. In ConneQT, youth choose which community member they live with, and those community members provide housing and food while Avenues provides wrap-around services and support.
Ryan started with Avenues as a youth worker in 2004 and he is the author of No House to Call My Home: Love, Family and Other Transgressions, which is the winner of the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction, the NCCD Media for a Just Society Award, and was listed as a Top 10 LGBTQ Book of 2016 by the American Library Association. He lives in Minneapolis with his two dogs, River and Jack.
