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HRC Announces Fellowships for 10 Leaders Working to End HIV in America\u2019s Hardest-Hit Communities<\/b>
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Today, HRC Foundation announced its selection of 10 outstanding, young community-based leaders for a nine-month fellowship providing high-level training to elevate their work ending HIV in hard-hit U.S. communities.<\/p>\n

The HRC HIV 360° initiative<\/a> is made possible with support from the Elton John AIDS Foundation.<\/p>\n

“We are thrilled to be working with this highly-committed and talented group of young leaders who are absolutely critical to ending the HIVepidemic,” said Mary Beth Maxwell, HRC Senior Vice President for Programs, Research and Training. “Their efforts in American communities hardest hit by HIV are already changing and saving lives. HRC’s HIV 360° program invests in helping them develop management and strategy skills, as well as make valuable contacts in the advocacy world to elevate their work back home.”<\/p>\n

“At the Elton John AIDS Foundation, we know how vitally important it is to support and train the next generation of activists and community leaders as a logical extension of our strategy to support HIV-related work being carried out by and for people most affected by the epidemic within their own communities,” said Scott Campbell, Executive Director of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. “Having diverse backgrounds and points of view represented in this exciting group of future young leaders selected for HRC’s HIV 360° Fellowship Program is absolutely crucial. We are so proud to support this unique program and look forward to the important work these young scholars will accomplish for their communities.”<\/p>\n

The new HRC HIV 360° fellows<\/a> are: Andrés Cano, Chair, National Latino AIDS Awareness Day Planning Committee, Tucson, AZ;Thomas Davis, Health Education Specialist, LA LGBT Center, Los Angeles, CA; Nicole Elinoff, Director of Clinical Services, The GLBT Community Center of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; Mardrequs Harris, Public Health Program Director, Tennessee Department of Health, Memphis, TN; Sasanka Jianadasa, Capacity Building and Community Resource Manager, HIPS, Washington, DC; Tyrell Manning, Regional Integration Specialist, Williams and Associates, Inc., St. Louis, MO; Pierre Jamar (PJ) Moton, Interim Clinical Program Manager, Abounding Propensity, Inc., Dallas, TX; Steven Romeo, Executive Director, The Change Project, Birmingham, AL; Milan Sherry, Advisory Board Member, Positively Trans, New Orleans, LA; and Lee Storrow, Executive Director, North Carolina AIDS Action Network, Raleigh, NC.<\/p>\n

Bios of the new fellows, as well as a video<\/a> in which they are featured, can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This diverse group, which held its first retreat at HRC’s Washington headquarters April 20-25, was chosen from a highly-competitive pool of 89 candidates, all under age 35 and playing leadership roles in community-based organizations and initiatives in two dozen states.<\/p>\n

Even as the LGBT community continues to make extraordinary strides in equality, we are still facing staggering rates of HIV in the U.S. – driven largely by misinformation, stigma and societal barriers to information and care, including discrimination and poverty.<\/p>\n