PRESENTERS &
FACILITATORS
Christopher Abert
(he/him) Christopher is the
Executive Director of the Indiana
Recovery Alliance and an
intravenous drug user who enables
people who use drugs to stay
healthy and free.
Gonzalo Aburto
(he/him) An activist for more than
three decades, Gonzalo Aburto is
a journalist who has documented
the AIDS epidemic in the Latino
community.
Alejandro Acosta
(he/him) Alejandro Acosta, an
exeperienced educator and trainer,
is Equality Florida’s HIV Advocacy
Project Coordinator working on HIV
modernization.
Christina Adeleke
(she/her) Christina Adeleke is
NCAAN’s Communications and
Development Coordinator. Before
coming to NCAAN, she was the
Coalition Organizer at Equality NC.
Leonardo Bastida
(he/him) A founding member of HIV
Is Not a Crime Mexico, Leonardo is a
reporter at journalistic supplement
Letra S, specialized in HIV, LGBT+
and gender issues.
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Jeff Berry
(he/him) Jeff Berry is editor of
Positively Aware magazine,
the leading national HIV/AIDS
treatment publication published
by a not-for-profit AIDS service
organization, TPAN, in Chicago.
Josh Bloise
(he/him) Josh is a French-Canadian
gay man. He and his spouse moved
to beautiful Idaho in 2011. He has
been living with HIV for almost 20
years.
Kate Boulton
(she/her) Kate Boulton is a lawyer
focused on the overrepresentation
of PLHIV in the criminal legal system
and advocates in states across the
U.S. for HIV criminal law reform.
Maxx Boykin
(he/him) Maxx Boykin is the Senior
Coordinator focusing on advocacy
work at the Black AIDS Institute.
Maxx formerly worked at AFC and
HIV PJA.
Barb Cardell
(she/her) Barb Cardell led a coalition
of people living with HIV and
HIV organizations to modernize
Colorado’s HIV criminalization laws
in 2016.
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 Marco Castro-Bojorquez
(he/him) Marco is an activist-
filmmaker who acted as a lead
anti-criminalization organizer in
CA and is the convener for HIVenas
Abiertas: a network of Latinx
immigrant PLHIV.
Chad Clarke
(he/him) Chad Clarke is
criminalization survivor and is a
member of the Canadian Coalition
to Reform HIV Criminalization. He is
living with HIV.
Kenyon Farrow
(he/him) Kenyon Farrow is an award-
winning writer and activist. He is the
senior editor with TheBody.com and
TheBodyPro.com.
Carrie Foote
(she/her) Carrie Foote, PhD, once a
homeless injecting drug-user, HIV+
since 1988, is now a scholar, mother
and activist leading Indiana’s HIV
Modernization Movement and a
founding member of the U=U campaign.
Ricardo Hernandez Forcada
(he/him) A founding member of HIV
is Not a Crime Mexico, Ricardo is
Director of the HIV AIDS and Human
Rights Program of the National
Human Rights Commission.
Terl Gleason
(he/him) Terl Gleason is a CPA,
organizer with the AIDS Healthcare
Foundation, and a person living
with HIV. He lives in Greensboro,
North Carolina.
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Brisa Gómez
(she/her) A founding member
of HIV Is Not A Crime Mexico,
Brisa is a journalist with a gender
perspective, member of the RNPPG,
interested in the human rights of
people with HIV.
Tyrone Hanley
(he/him) Tyrone Hanley serves
as Policy Counsel at the National
Center for Lesbian Rights. In this
role, he supports NCLR’s federal
policy initiatives, with a focus on
criminal justice reform, economic justice, and HIV.
Tami Haught
(she/her) Tami has led Iowa’s HIV
criminalization reform movement.
She is the SERO Project Organizing
and Training Coordinator.
Kate Hess
(she/her) Kate is the Executive
Director of Hoosier Action, which
builds the political power of
Indiana’s working families through
robust community organizing.
Monique Howell
(she/her) Monique Howell is a
survivor of HIV prosecution under
military laws and actions. She has
been living with HIV for 12 years.
Mark Hughes
(he/him) Mark tested HIV+ in1995
and is the Prevention Program
Coordinator for Brothers United Inc.,
and a founding comittee member of
the HIV Modernization Movement
Indiana.
 Naina Khanna
(she/her) Naina Khanna serves
as Executive Director for Positive
Women’s Network – USA, a national
membership body of women living
with HIV, including women of trans
experience.
Devin Hursey
(he/him) Devin Hursey is a steering
committee member of the USPLHIV
Caucus, as well as a member of the
CDC/HRSA Advisory Committee on
HIV and STIs.
Timothy Jackson
(he/him) Timothy currently serves
as President of the Thrive Alabama
BOD in Huntsville, AL, also the
founder of The Promises Project, an
on-line clearinghouse of HIV-related
resources and media content.
Zaniya James
(she/her) Zaniya is the cofounder
of the L.A.T.E. Project in Indiana -
Leading Advocacy for Transgender
Empowerment - and advocates
for PLHIV, especially transgender
people.
Stacy Jennings
(she/her) The day she received
her diagnosis she thought her
life would be over, little did she
know that what started out being
a devastating diagnosis ended up
being a blessing.
Pat Kelly
(she/her) Pat lives in Orangeburg
SC. A board member of PWN,
Minority AIDS Council, and Steering
Committee of US PLHIV Caucus, she
is an Ambassador to Modernize the
HIV Laws in SC.
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Johnnie Ray Kornegay, III
(he/him) Johnnie Ray Kornegay III,
is Network Director for Counter
Narrative Project. He is also the
Founder & Artistic Director of Staticc
Art & Life, LLC.
Kamaria Laffrey
(she/her) Kamaria Laffrey, a WLHIV
and Black Girl Magic, is SERO’s
FL Community Organizer and
a graduate of the PWN Policy
Fellowship working on HIV
criminalization legislation.
Michael “Mikey” Lamb
(he/him) Michael “Mikey” Lamb is
a spoken word poet who found
his passion of advocacy after his
diagnosis of HIV at 21. Advocacy is
something Lamb believes will finally
televise the revolution.
Arianna Lint
(she/her) Arianna is the Executive
Director of Arianna’s Center, a
community-based organization that
provides advocacy, education and
training, case management and
linkage to care for the transgender community in
South Florida.
Kevin Lish
(he/him) Kevin Lish helped organize
and now leads the Idaho Coalition
for HIV Health and Safety. Kevin has
been living with HIV for 20 years.
Carlos Ruiz Lopez
(he/him) A founding member of
HIV is Not a Crime Mexico, Carlos
is a LGBTTI rights activist, political
activist and founder of the People
and Workers Organization (OPT) in
Colima.
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 Brad Lundahl
(he/him) Brad Lundahl is a Program
Manager at Equality California
focusing on HIV/AIDS programming
and Equality California’s political
and electoral activities.
Tiffany Marrero
(she/her) Tiffany Marrero is an HIV-
and sex-positive millenial, macro-
social worker, legendary change-
maker and advocate.
Alexander McClelland
(he/him) Alexander McClelland is a
Canadian writer and researcher who
is currently working on a doctorate
at Concordia University in Montreal.
He is living with HIV.
Kara McGee
(she/her) Kara McGee is an adjunct
assistant professor in maternal
and child health. She is also a
certified physician assistant with
over 20 years of clinical medicine
experience.
Lestian McNeal
(he/him) Lestian is a Program
Coordinator at the Black AIDS
Institute and has worked to lead the
Institute’s healthcare access policy
initiative.
Dr. Alfredo Daniel Bernal Méndez
(he/him) A founding member
of HIV is Not a Crime Mexico,
he a specialist in Epidemiology
Researcher and activist on issues
of HIV, indigenous peoples and
migration.
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Brian Minalga
(he/him) Brian Minalga works
through the Legacy Project to
promote equity and justice in HIV
research. He’s also a member of the
Washington HIV Justice Alliance.
Tiffany Moore
(she/her) Tiffany, former Housing
Case-Manager for StreetWorks,
experienced HIV criminalization
first-hand and helped pass Public-
Chapter 469 to lessen HIV-specific
enhancement penalties in TN.
Allison Nichol
(she/her) Allison Nichol served the
Department of Justice for more
than twenty years in the Civil Rights
Division as the Department’s expert
on HIV law and policy.
Paola Marcela Iregui Parra
(she/her) A lawyer with a Master in
Public Law from la Universidad del
Rosario and a doctorate student,
Paola is a professor of Legal Clinic
Group of Public Actions and works
pro-bono.
Eric Paulk
(he/him) Eric Paulk is a lawyer,
advocate and organizer working at
the intersections of race, class and
sexuality, with an emphasis on HIV
and the law.
Anthony Pinggera
(he/him) Anthony Pinggera is a Law
Fellow at Lambda Legal, where
he works with the HIV Project on
impact litigation and state-level
legislative advocacy across the
country.
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CHAMPIONS
State Sen. René Garcia (FL)
Senator René Garcia has been a champion and leader to modernize Florida’s HIV specific
statute since 2016. He introduced a modernization bill in 2017 and 2018. While the bill
did not get passed, Senator Garcia provided great educational opportunities and outreach
to his fellow legislators.
He was born and raised in the city of Hialeah to working class Cuban American parents.
In 1997, at the age of 24, René García was elected to a two-year term on the Hialeah City
Council. He was re-elected, to a four-year term in November 1999.
He was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in November of 2000 and was re-elected
consecutively in 2002, 2004 and 2006. René García was elected to Florida’s State Senate on November 2,
2010. He is currently the Chairman of the Health care Regulation Committee. Garcia also serves on the
following committees: Agriculture, Budget Sub-committee on Health & Human Services Appropriations,
Governmental Oversight & Accountability, Reapportionment and Transportation.

State Rep. Jon Hoadley (MI)

Jon Hoadley is in his second term as the representative for the 60th House District in
Michigan, which includes Kalamazoo and portions of the city of Portage and Kalamazoo
Township. He currently serves on the appropriations committee, including the following
subcommittees: Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (Democratic
vice chair), Higher Education (Democratic vice chair), and the Michigan Department of
Environmental Quality.
Rep. Hoadley is a leading voice in the fight for nonpartisan redistricting, reducing the
influence of money in politics, and term limit reform, as well as for increasing education funding, lowering
student debt, raising wages for working people, paid sick leave, protecting the environment, and ending
discrimination. He is a small business owner and president and owner of Badlands Strategies, a progressive
public affairs firm. He has a track record of running ballot measures advancing LGBTQ equality and regularly
consults on nondiscrimination campaigns across the country.

State Rep. John McCrostie (ID)

John’s political involvement sprouted in Idaho’s successful “Vote No on Props 1, 2
and 3” education referendum campaign. John developed his educational and union
leadership through elected positions in the Boise Education Association, Idaho Education
Association, and the National Education Association.
Through his legislative tenure, John sponsored bills to ban conversion therapy, to repeal
Idaho’s marriage equality ban, and to modernize Idaho’s non-discrimination and hate
crimes statutes by including “sexual orientation and gender identity.” In 2015, the Imperial
Court System presented John with the Jose Julio Sarria Civil Rights Award, and in 2018, the Idaho Counseling
Association presented John with their Equality Award. John is the first openly gay man and first openly gay
person of color to serve in the Idaho Legislature.
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 Ken Pinkela
(he/him) 26+ year career U.S. Army
officer convicted in June 2012 of
an alleged assault and battery for
HIV exposure and spent 272 days in
military prison at Fort Leavenworth.
Dr. Patricia Ponce
(she/her) A founding member of
HIV is Not a Crime Mexico, she is a
member of Multisectoral Group on
HIV, AIDS and STIs of the State of
Veracruz.
Ash Quinn
(he/him) Ash Quinn, an LGBTQ+
activist for 10+ years, graduated
from Texas Christian University,
and staffs the MO HIV JC from
Springfield for Empower Missouri.
Venita Ray
(she/her) Venita is an attorney with a
passion for social justice and equity.
She is Deputy Director for Southern
AIDS Coalition.
Malcolm Reid
(he/him) Malcolm works THRIVE SS
as the Co-Director of the Political
and Social Action Network (PASAN)
and represents THRIVE SS on the
USPLHIV steering committee.
Marlena Richardson
(she/her) Marlena lives in
Orangeburg, SC. Diagnosed
with HIV in 2001, she has been
undetectable for over a decade.
Marlena is an active member
of PWN-USA SC and an HIV Criminalization
Ambassador SC.
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Germán Humberto Rincón Perfetti
(he/him) Germán is a Colombian
lawyer and activist working for
human rights and the rights of
those living with HIV/AIDS within
Colombia, Latin America and
worldwide.
Arneta Rogers
(she/her) Arneta is Policy Director
for Positive Women’s Network–USA,
a national membership body of
women living with HIV, including
women of trans experience.
Cris Sardina
(she/her) Cris is the national director
of Desiree Alliance, an organization
working towards human, labor, and
civil rights for sex workers.
Scott Schoettes
(he/him) Scott is Counsel & HIV
Project Director at Lambda Legal,
where he litigates impact cases
involving HIV discrimination, HIV
criminalization, and access to care.
Mayo Schreiber, Jr.
(he/him) Mayo Schreiber, Jr., Deputy
Director at CHLP, is a federal criminal
defense attorney in New York with
twenty-five years of experience in
private practice.
Waheedah Shabazz-El
(she/her) Waheedah resides
in Philadelphia, PA. She is a
founding member and currently
the Organizing Director at PWN-
USA . Waheedah is also a Steering
Committee Member for the National Reunion
Project.
 Jennie Smith-Camejo
(she/her) Jennie is Communications
Director for Positive Women’s
Network - USA. She is currently
based in Miami.
Andrew Spieldenner
(he/him) Andrew Spieldenner,
PhD, is Assistant Professor in
Communication at California State
University-San Marcos, and serves
as Chair of the US People Living
with HIV Caucus.
Cindy Stine
(she/her) Cindy Stine is SERO’s
Project Coordinator, overseeing the
Network Empowerment Project,
and The Network of PLHIV who are
incarcerated, and co-coordinator for
HINAC III.
Lee Storrow
(he/him) Lee Storrow has been
the North Carolina AIDS Action
Network’s Executive Director since
2014. He serves on the board of
directors of the National AIDS
Housing Coalition.
Sean Strub
Sean Strub has lived with HIV for
35+ years, founded POZ Magazine,
is executive director of the Sero
Project and author of Body Counts:
A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and
Survival.
Robert Suttle
(he/him) Robert Suttle is a survivor
of HIV prosecution and conviction
under Louisiana’s HIV-specific
criminal statute. He has been living
with HIV for 15 years
Collaborative (SNaP Co) in Atlanta, Ga.
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Shayne Tabor
(he/him) Shayne spent 8 years
under Iowa’s HIV-specific criminal
statute until May 2017. He has
been working to rebuild his life and
looking forward to his future.
Kerry Thomas
(he/him) Kerry Thomas joined the
Sero Board in 2013. Kerry is very
active in educating, supporting and
advocate within the walls of the
Idaho correctional facility.
Eldred “E.J.” Thomas, Jr.
(he/him) Elred Thomas, Jr works
to reduce the rate of new HIV
diagnoses in North Alabama by
educating people in his community
on how to address their risk factors.
Rebecca Wang
(she/her) Rebecca is the If/When/
How Reproductive Justice-HIV
Fellow at Positive Women’s
Network-USA.
Mariah Wilberg
(she/her) Mariah Wilberg has
been living with HIV over 10
years. She is currently leading
the U=U campaign at Minnesota
Department of Health.
Toni-Michelle Williams
(she/her) Toni-Michelle Williams
is an organizer and internship
coordinator for the Racial Justice
Action Center (RJAC) and the
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