Koya Partners | Diversified Search Group partnered with Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC) on the search for their Director of Service Programs.

For over 40 years, Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC) has provided a safety net of social welfare and community development services to empower people and communities in need. Starting with its home in Little Tokyo, LTSC preserves and strengthens the unique ethnic communities of the Southern California region where people, culture, and the collective future matter.

Our work resulted in the recruitment of Peter Gee to the role.

As LTSC’s Director of Service Programs, Peter will lead service programs core to the organization’s mission and roots as a social service agency including care management, mental health services, Changing Tides, homeless services, and senior services–just to name a few. He will also serve on the Executive Management Committee, the organization’s staff leadership team.

Peter comes to LTSC with a wide breadth of expertise in human services. After graduating from UC Berkeley and earning his master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University, Peter served the community for over 15 years in various senior leadership roles at human service and community development organizations in New York City. His career led him to work with diverse populations from rent-regulated immigrant tenants to people living with serious mental illness to systems-involved youth and young adults. Most recently, Peter transitioned into a second career as a Registered Nurse, with a BS in Nursing from NYU and licensing in New York State, Minnesota, and California.