John Griffiths, Us Weekly's Television Critic from 2003 to 2017, today works as an advocate for inclusion and diversity in media and beyond. He is the Executive Director and founder of GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and its Dorian Awards, now celebrating their 13th year, as well as CGEM: Critics Groups for Equality in Media, an alliance of five under-represented entertainment journalists organizations including GALECA. He also participates on the Advisory Committee of Time's Up's CRITICAL initiative, which presses to increase diversity and inclusion in entertainment journalism. 

Griffiths' other career “credits”: Seven years as a Special Correspondent for People magazine, where he conducted with at-home interviews with stars as varied as Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah and Melissa Etheridge; Senior Arts & Entertainment Editor for The Advocate; and booking celebrities as a Contributing Editor for Women's Health. As a freelance celebrity journalist, he has profiled Sandra Bullock, Ellen DeGeneres, Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Garner, Courteney Cox and others for cover stories in TV Guide, InStyle, Cosmopolitan, Glamour and more. 

He has also helped advance Hollywood’s treatment of mental health, reviewing nominees for the Entertainment Industries Council's annual Prism Awards for accuracy in health and addiction issues, participating on the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention’s public awareness task force, and hosting and producing a live digital radio show on the intersection of entertainment and recovery.

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