Sunday, September 21
Session 6: 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Workshops
Applying Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) methodology to a
Peer Driven Intervention at a Community Based Organization in the Bronx in order to reach hidden members in a high-risk
community
Rural/ Southeast Region
Effective Time Management vs. Staff Burnout
The Older Adult HIV Prevention and Education Initiative: NYC
Responds to Community-based Research
Strengthening HIV Prevention and Care in NYC through
Practice-based Action Research
PEPFAR - Where are we?
Creating and Sustaining HIV Support Groups Outside of Large
Urban Settings
Stories Matter: The Power of Narrative to Promote Social
Justice and Heal Trauma
Honoring the “T” in NaTive Transgender Community
Ensuring the Quality of Counseling, Testing, and Referral
Services through Direct Observation
Immune System Connection to low Cholesterol in the HAART era
High-risk Behavior among Men who have Sex with Men in Tallinn, Estonia
Positive Living through Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Our Patients Should Not Be Dying: Examining Causes of Death
Among People with HIV/AIDS In a Primary Care/Day Treatment Setting in New York City
Experiential Education: The Future of HIV Prevention
Policy Issues and Women
Challenge for the Future: A New Paradigm for Management
Roundtables
Risky Business-African American Women's Self Perception of
HIV Risk
Developing Peer-Learning Networks
Helping HIV-Infected and At-Risk Inmates Positively Re-Enter
Their Communities
Closing Plenary Luncheon: HIV/AIDS Challenge for Gay Men and Men who have Sex with Men
(MSM)
11:45 a.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Location: Hall A, First Floor, Ft. Lauderdale
Convention Center
Speakers at this important session include an activist, a journalist, an athlete, a government official, a designer and an actor. They will discuss the impaction of HIV on gay men and men who have sex with men
The speakers include:
• Rashad
Burgess
• Tommy
Chesbro
• Wilson Cruz
• Jack
Mackenroth
• Sean Strub
• Esera
Tuaolo
• Jose
Antiono Vargas
Singer Martha Wash will provide entertainment at this plenary session.
Biographies of this year's speakers:
Rashad Burgess, MA is the acting branch chief for Capacity Building at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. When you Google his name, you can view a speech he made
at the 2005 HIV Prevention Leadership Summit.
Tommy Chesbro
Tommy Chesbro has a master’s degree in Human Relations from
the University of Oklahoma and is the Vice President of Education and
Advocacy for Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern
Oklahoma. He serves on the Board of Directors for the National
Minority AIDS Council and Co-Chairs the Racial and Ethnic Minority Advisory
Committee for the National Institutes of Health’s Office of AIDS Research. He
has extensive experience in providing trainings and workshops on HIV/AIDS
including counseling and testing, homophobia and stigma, adolescent sexuality,
sexual health risk assessments, and living positively with HIV/AIDS. Mr.
Chesbro also had served on the Education Advisory Committee for the Association
of American Indian Physicians
Wilson Cruz
From his My Space page "I''m just a simple ;-) Puerto Rican
boy with a dream. I'm a dreamer who still believes that they come true. I chase
the dream and I put up a good fight for it. I work hard, I play hard. I LIVE
OUT LOUD! I love to laugh until I cry. Its my favorite. I love that moment when
someone you know all of a sudden becomes someone you don't know how you ever
lived without. I cherish that moment. Its rare. PASSION - I have it. "
Jack Mackenroth
After a successful stint on Project Runway, Jack Mackenroth
exemplifies great achievement while living with HIV. As he has done for the
past 20 years, he continues to excel in design, athletics, television and HIV
activism. His openness and honesty has inspired million around the globe.
Sean Strub
Sean Strub has been an AIDS activist since the early 1980’s
and is the founder of POZ Magazine (www.poz.com). He has written extensively on
the AIDS epidemic, corporate social responsibility and the empowerment of
people with life-threatening illnesses.
Esera Tuaolo
After impoverished Samoan immigrant Tuaolo attended Oregon State
on a football scholarship, he was drafted by the Green Bay Packers and then
spent nine years in the NFL on five different teams. Yet he was
"terrified" during the 1999 Super Bowl, when he was playing for the
Atlanta Falcons: "Not one teammate, coach or sportswriter knew I was
gay.... What if one of those billion people watching recognized me as the
stranger he had picked up in a gay bar?"
Jose Antiono Vargas
Jose Antonio Vargas is a reporter for the Washington Post,
where he covers the convergence of politics and the Internet. Previously, he
wrote about video game culture and HIV/AIDS in Washington, and won a Pulitzer Prize as part
of a team that covered the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech. He's also written
for the Philadelphia Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle and New York
Magazine, and has appeared on CNN, National Public Radio and “The NewsHour with
Jim Lehrer.”
Martha Wash
Like many artists, Martha has felt the ups and downs of the
rollercoaster-like music industry. From being the uncredited powerhouse
vocalist behind C+C Music Factory's classic "Gonna Make You Sweat
(Everybody Dance Now)", to seeing her debut solo single "Carry
On" reach the #1 spot - in her own name - Martha has unquestionably made
her mark in music history.
In the early 80's, the Two Tons proudly declared, "Hi,
we're your Weather Girls" and a new talent emerged onto the scene. As part
of the Weather Girls, Martha scored a Grammy Nomination for a song that was
destined to become a cult classic. Yes, “It's Raining Men” – the original
version that confirmed it was time to leave your umbrellas at home, rip off the
roof and stay in bed. Martha continued to sing with the Weather Girls until the
late 80's when she felt it was time to move on to the next tenure of her
career.
