Logan Benton

Logan Benton (LOH-guhn Ben-tuhn), she/they, is a senior manager on the Drug User Health team. She supports the team by leading the Strengthening Syringe Service Programs project, providing low-threshold direct funding and enhanced capacity building to SSPs across the country while centering the Disability Justice framework of “nothing about us without us.” Prior to NASTAD, Logan implemented low-barrier, participatory, and trust-based harm reduction grantmaking initiatives across the state of California and Greater Appalachia, facilitated Ryan White Part B funding for the state of Alabama and worked in direct service at an HIV clinic/ASO. They have implemented harm reduction personally for fifteen years and professionally for approximately the last decade, continuing to provide community care through a local mutual aid harm reduction program. They hold a Bachelor of Social Work with a minor in English from Jacksonville State University. Logan works remotely from a small town in central Alabama.