National Minority AIDS Council Building Healthier Communities

10:00 a.m.            

Introductions

• Ravinia Hayes-Cozier

  National Minority AIDS Council

10:30 a.m.

Overview of Election: Both Congress & White House 

• Winnie Stachelberg
  American Progress

• What are the take home messages?
  
  

• Who won which seats?
  
  

• Who lost which seats?
  
  

• What does that mean?

11:30 p.m.

Overview of Transition Plans

• National AIDS Strategy
  Rebecca Haag, AIDS Action

• 100 Days Document/AIDS in America 
  Carl Schmid, The AIDS Institute
  
  
  

 

• Fighting HIV/AIDS in Communities of Color: An Action Plan for the Next President
  Lance Toma, Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center
  
  
  

• Black Gay Men's Agenda
  Ernest Hopkins and Cornelius Baker, National Black Gay Men's Advocacy Coalition
  
  
  

• HIV Civil Rights Transition Document
  Catherine Hanssens,  Center for HIV Law & Policy
  
  
  

• National Latino Strategy
  

  James Albino, Hispanic Federation
  
  

  
  National AIDS Strategy for Women

• Vanessa Johnson, National Association of People with AIDS

1:00 p.m.

Luncheon

• David Holtgrave, John Hopkins University
  
  

• Sheryl Lee Ralph, Actress and Broadway Legend
  

2:30 p.m.

Federal Departments

• Amy Lansky
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

3:30 p.m.

Working with Your National Organizations / What Is Their National Agenda

• Nancy Bernstine, National AIDS Housing Coalition
  
  

• Kandy Ferre, National AIDS Fund
  
  

• Deeana Jang, Asian Pacific Islander American Health Forum
  
  

• Frank Oldham, National Association of People with AIDS
  
  

• Julie Scofield, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors
  

   

• William Smith, Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
  
  

• Andrea Weddle, HIV Medical Association
  
  

• Phill Wilson, Black AIDS Institute
  

4:30 p.m.

Next Steps: Where Do We Go from Here?

• Paul A. Kawata

  National Minority AIDS Council