Derek Kitchen

Derek Kitchen (born August 30, 1988) is an American politician from Salt Lake City, Utah.

Laziz Kitchen has a partnership with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to hire refugees and New Americans from Iraq and Syria.

[11] He also worked to expand housing options in Salt Lake City with an update to the Accessory Dwelling Unit/Mother-in-law ordinance in 2018.

This was after protests against killings by police in which the street in front of the district attorney's office was painted red.

[16] During his term, Kitchen proposed raising the minimum age for buying a gun from 18 to 21 and repealing the statute banning marriage for same-sex couples that is still on the books.