The Love Heals Speakers Bureau
Also listed below:
* Brief biographies of Speakers Bureau members (list)
* List of Schools and Organizations at which we have
spoken (list)
Love Heals uses a team approach to provide both the basic facts on HIV/AIDS and the unique perspective of someone living with HIV. Our speakers use their own stories to reinforce the message that young people must educate and protect themselves. Book a Speakers Bureau presentation by contacting Vicky Moy, Program Assistant, at 212/529-7935 or
vicky@loveheals.org.
Love Heals’ Speakers Bureau presentations and workshops last from 45 to 180 minutes. Presentations are generally followed by a discussion period during which participants are encouraged to ask any and all questions and are assured that they will receive honest, complete answers. They’re conducted in a wide variety of settings—from secondary schools to universities and church groups to prisons. Groups range from 8 to 800 people.
Our speakers bureau works in partnership with the New York City Department of Education to provide lessons towards fulfilling the HIV/AIDS education mandate (Read the
mandate). We also partner with peer education programs and programs serving newly diagnosed individuals.
Over the past fifteen years, Love Heals’ Speakers Bureau has reached more than 315,000 young people throughout the New York City metropolitan area—including 44,000 last year alone.
The Love Heals Speakers Bureau is comprised of an extraordinarily diverse roster of trained health educators and people living with HIV. You’ll find a short blurb about each one below, as well as a list of schools and organizations we've reached (list).
ASIA was diagnosed with HIV in 1994 and works tirelessly as an advocate for people living with HIV/AIDS, particularly on Staten Island where she lives with her two daughters.
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CANDICE was born with HIV, but did not learn of her status until age 13. She is a graduate of Queensborough Community College and a former counselor at the Herbert G. Birch Family Camp.
CLAIRE, a lifelong resident of NYC, has worked with the AIDS and Adolescents Network of NY; the Hunter College Center on AIDS, Drugs and Community Health; and the Mayor's Office on AIDS Policy Coordination.
CRAIG, a father of two, trained as a peer educator with the SUNY Health Science Center and has served as a case manager/community educator for Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS and the Mt. Vernon Hospital HIV/AIDS Treatment Program. He is currently employed as a health educator at the Osborne Association.
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DAVID is a Housing Advocate with Momentum AIDS Project. He has also worked with Bronx AIDS Services and Housing Options and Geriatric Association Resources. In addition to possessing a powerful HIV story, David has extensive experience in HIV education and case management, including a degree in Human Services.
DOUGLAS learned that he was HIV-positive while in college in the early 1990s. A former supportive services counselor, he strives to promote HIV/AIDS awareness and education. The father of seven children, Douglas loves to travel, read, garden and play sports.
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FAREED emigrated from Trinidad at the age of 21. While he was diagnosed with HIV in 1990, he did not disclose his status until six years later. Since then, he has gained the unconditional support of his family and friends and manages his health through a holistic approach to treatment.
INACENT trained as a peer educator at Teens Helping Each Other at the SUNY Health Science Center and currently works with the Council for Unity. She has also served as a health educator at the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force and Settlement Health Clinic, and enjoys poetry, music and working with youth.
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JIMMY learned that he was HIV-positive in 1987, but did not fully disclose until a 1992 stay in an inpatient rehab center. Today he works as a caretaker; is an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous; volunteers as an EMT/CPR instructor; and leads an active life skiing, swimming, snowboarding, kayaking and sailing.
JOEY draws on his experience being HIV-positive in his work within marginalized communities. Joey is a member of the NYS HIV Prevention Planning Group, in addition to being a founding Board member of the Ali Forney Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth, where he now works as the Coordinator of Policy and Training.
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MONA was diagnosed with HIV in 1990. She has worked as a community health worker with the Brooklyn Healthy AmeriCorps Project providing health education to teens and pre-teens, and currently works as a certified Nursing Assistant at a senior citizens center. In her spare time, Mona enjoys traveling and vintage shopping.
NAIROBI began his community organizing, education and advocacy career at the age of 15. The former founding Executive Director of Youth Organizers United and one of the youngest members to serve on the NYC HIV Prevention Planning Group, Nairobi received health education training from the AIDS and Adolescents Network of NY and the HIV/AIDS Technical Assistance Project.
NIKO learned that she had HIV at the age of 19 and is currently completing her first autobiographical novel, "Miracle Child". Niko participated in the MTV documentary Blood Lines and was also featured in MTV's World AIDS Days 2000 "Living with HIV" program. She also loves to dance.
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STEPHANIE is currently an outreach worker at the HIV Vaccine Unit at Columbia University and holds a B.S. in Health Sciences with a concentration in Community Health. Stephanie enjoys writing poetry and plans to pursue a master's degree in sexuality and health.
VICKY, who was born and raised in Queens, holds a B.A. in Public Health Studies. She has received health education training from the NYS AIDS Institute and has worked with the People's Community Health Center in Baltimore and with the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center in New York's Chinatown. Vicky also serves as Love Heals' Program Assistant.
VICTORIA co-founded Love Heals in 1992 and received HIV/AIDS education training from the American Red Cross. A filmmaker, writer, and theater/film/record producer, Victoria has been intimately involved with the musical RENT since its inception and has traveled the world in support of its many productions.
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Schools and Community Organizations Reached by the
Love Heals Speakers Bureau
81st Precinct Youth Council
A. Philip Randolph HS
About Face
Abraham Lincoln HS
Academy for Career and Sports HS
Academy of Urban Planning
Acorn Community HS
Acorn HS for Social Justice
Action by Congregation Together for Children
Adolescent and Family Comprehensive Services
Adolescent Initiative Project
AIDS Center of Queens County
AIDS Service Center of Lower Manhattan
Albany Avenue School
Alfred E. Smith Vocational HS
Alianza Dominicana
Amnesty International School for Human Rights
Andrew Glover Youth Program
Anne Sullivan School
Anning S. Prall School
Antonio G. Olivieri Center for Homeless Women
Arturo Toscanini School
Asher Levy School
August Martin HS
Aurora Concept
Austin H. MacCormick Island Academy
Auxiliary Services for High Schools at Ebbets
Field Learning Center
Auxiliary Services for High Schools at Jamaica Learning Center
Baccalaureate School for Global Education
Baisley Bay HS/Project BLEND
Banana Kelly HS
Bard HS Early College
Bayard Rustin HS for the Humanities
Bayshore HS
Bayside HS
Beach Channel HS
Beacon Program at Parsons Junior HS
Beacon School
Bedford Stuyvesant Preparatory HS
Bellevue Hospital Center
Benjamin N. Cardozo HS
Brearley School
Breuckelen School
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Bronx Academy HS
Bronx Aerospace Academy
Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics
Bronx HS of Science
Bronx AIDS Services
Bronx Lab School
Bronx Leadership Academy HS
Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center
Brooklyn Academy HS
Brooklyn Alliance to Strengthen the Safety Net
Brooklyn Comprehensive Night HS
Brooklyn HS of the Arts
Brooklyn International HS
Brooklyn Studio School
Brooklyn Technical HS
Brooklyn Victory Church
Brownsville Multi-Service Family Health Center
Bushwick Leaders' HS for Academic Excellence
Bushwick School for Social Justice
Calhoun School
Canarsie HS
Carrie Palmer Weber MS
Castle Hill School
Catherine and Count Basie School
Catherine McAuley HS
Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services
Center for Community Alternatives
Charles H. Houston School
Chem RX
Chester Park School
Children's Art and Science Workshops
Children's Hope Foundation
Christopher Columbus HS
Church of God of Prophecy
Cicattelli Associates
Citizens Advice Bureau
City as School at Truman HS
City as School HS
CityKids
Clara Cardwell School
Clergy United for Community Empowerment
Clinton School for Writers and Artists
Coalition School for Social Change
Cobble Hill School of American Studies
College of Staten Island HS for International Studies
Collegiate School
Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School
Common Cents
Community Counseling & Mediation
Community HS for Social Justice
Community School of the Bronx
Congressman Gregory Meeks' Office
Convent of the Sacred Heart
Council Member Tracy L. Boyland's Office
Council Member Yvette Clark's Office
CUNY City College of New York
Cypress Hill Local Development Corporation
Daniel Hale Williams School
David A. Stein Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Developing Opportunities through Meaningful Education
Project
DeWitt Clinton HS
Discovery HS
Dominican Sisters Family Health Services
Dwight-Englewood HS
East Brooklyn Congregations HS
East Harlem School at Exodus House
East New York Family Academy
East Northport MS
East Rockaway HS
Eastside HS
Eastside MS
Edward A. Reynolds West Side HS
Edward R. Murrow HS
Edward W. Stitt JHS
Edwin Gould Services for Children and Families
Eleanor Roosevelt HS
Ella McQueen Residential Center
Enterprise, Business, and Technology HS
Erasmus Hall HS
Essence School
Evening Star Baptist Church
Eximius College Preparatory Academy
Exponents
Faith Mission Alcohol Crisis Center
Family, Adolescent and Children's Experience at SUNY (FACES)
Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom HS
Far Rockaway HS
Federation Employment and Guidance Service
Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
Fiorella H. LaGuardia HS for Music & Art and Performing Arts
First African Methodist Episcopal Church (Bethel)
Flatlands Family Residence
Flushing HS
Foreign Language Academy of Global Studies HS
Forest Hills HS
Forrest Hills Community House at Robert A. Van Wyck School
Fort Hamilton HS
Fountain House
Francis Lewis HS
Franciscan Community Center
Frank D. Whalen School
Franklin D.Roosevelt HS
Frederick Douglas Academy
Frederick Douglas Literacy Center
Frederick Douglass Academy VII HS
Freedom Academy HS
Freeport HS
Friends Academy
Garden City HS
Garden School
Gay Men's Health Crisis
George W. Hewlett HS
George W. Wingate HS
George Washington HS
George Westinghouse HS
Gethsemane Baptist Church of Deliverance
Girls for Gender Equity
Girls, Inc.
Glen Cove HS
Grace Dodge Career and Technical Education HS
Grace United Methodist Church
Grand Street Settlement
Great Neck South HS
Great Neck South MS
Greenwich Academy
Greenwich Village MS
Grover Cleveland HS
Growth & Development Services
Harlem Children's Zone
Harlem Hospital Center
Harry S. Truman HS
Harry Van Arsdale Jr. HS
Health Opportunities HS
Health Opportunities in Peer Education for HIV/AIDS
Henry Viscardi School
Herbert H. Lehman College
Herbert H. Lehman HS
Heritage School
Hetrick-Martin Institute
Hicksville HS
HS for Arts and Business
HS for Environmental Studies
HS for Health Professions and Human Services
HS for Leadership and Public Service
HS for Public Service
HS for Violin and Dance
HS of Fashion Industries
HS of Graphic Communication Arts
Hillcrest HS
Hispanic AIDS Forum
Hispanic Young People's Alternatives at Sunset Park Beacon
After School
Hollis Presbyterian Church
Horace Greeley HS
Housing Works
Hunter College Center on AIDS, Drugs, and Community
Health
Hunter College HS
Huntington HS
I Challenge Myself
Improving Mentor Practices and Communication Techniques
Coalition
Independence HS
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
Inwood House
Iona College
Iris House
Isaac Newton JHS for Science and Math
Jackie Robinson School
Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House
Jamaica Evening HS
Jamaica HS
James Madison HS
James Monroe Campus Schools
James Monroe Educational Campus
James P. Sinnott School
Jane Addams Vocational HS
Jeffrey M. Rapport School for Career Development
John Adams Evening HS
John Adams HS
John Bowne HS
John Dewey HS
John F. Kennedy HS
John Jay HS
John M. Coleman School
Jose Celso Babosa School
Juan Morel Campos School
Kennedy-King School
Lafayette HS
Lambda Pi Chi at St. John's University
Latin Hip Hop Coalition
Leadership and Community Service School
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House
Leon M. Goldstein HS for the Sciences
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center
Lincoln Square Learning Center
Linden Church of Seventh-Day Adventists
Little Flower Children and Family Services of New York
Locust Valley MS
Lola Rodriguez de Tio School
Long Beach HS
Long Island City HS
Long Island University
Lou Gehrig School
Louis D. Brandeis HS
Lower Eastside Girls Club of NY
Lower Manhattan Outreach Center
Lyceum Kennedy French International School
M·A·C AIDS Fund
Magnetech 2000 School
Make the Road by Walking
Manhasset HS
Manhasset MS
Manhattan Academy of Technology
Manhattan Center for Science & Mathematics
Manhattan International HS
Manhattan School for Career Development
Manhattan Transition Center
Marble Hill School for International Studies
Margaret S. Douglas School
Marist College
Martin Luther King Jr. HS
Marymount Manhattan College
Marymount School of NY
Massapequa HS
Masters School
Metropolitan Hospital Center
Michael J. Petrides School
Middletown HS
Midwood HS
Millennium HS
Miracle Corners
Miracle Faith Church of Hope and Deliverance
Montefiore Medical Center
Moriah Institute
Mott Hall II School
Mott Haven Village Preparatory HS
Mount Sinai SPEEK Peer Education Program
New Explorers HS
New Jersey City University
New Preparatory MS
New Rochelle HS
New Utrecht HS
New York Civil Liberties Union
New York City Gospel Youth Explosion
New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies
New York City Museum School
New York City Technical College
New York Scores
New York University
Newcomers HS
Newtown HS
Norman Thomas HS
North Shore Hospital
NYC Department of Education
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
NYC Department of Probation
NYC Department of Youth and Community Development
NYC Police Athletic League
NYC Vocational Training Center
NYS Office of Children and Family Services
Office of Children and Families
P 233 Q at Beach Channel HS
P 373K at Brooklyn Transition Center
Park Place Community MS
Parsons School
Passages Academy at Crossroads Juvenile Center
Passages Academy at Girls and Boys Town
Paul Klapper School
Phyllis Wheatley School
Port Richmond HS
Portledge School
Positive Actions and Choices for Teens
Professional Performing Arts HS
Progress HS
Progressive Adolescent Vocational Exploration After School
Program
Project Pact
Project Reach
Project Reach Youth
Promesa de Program
Prudential Cares
PS/IS 208
Public Allies
Queens Academy HS
Queens Child Guidance Center
Queens Gateway HS
Queens HS for the Sciences at York College
Queens HS of Teaching
Queens Hospital Center
Queens School
Queens Vocational and Technical HS
Red Hook Community Justice Center
Relationship Abuse Prevention Program
Richard R. Green HS of Teaching
Richmond Hill HS
Riker's Island Educational Facility
Riverdale Neighborhood House
Riverhead HS
Riverside Church
Robert F. Wagner School
Robert Van Wyck MS
Roberto Clemente School
Rockaway Beach School
Rose E. Scala School
Rudolf Steiner School
Rye Country Day School
Rye Neck HS
Samuel Gompers Vocational and Technical HS
Sarah J. Hale HS
Satellite Academy HS
School By the Sea
School for Community Research and Learning
School for Legal Studies
School of Environmental Science, Mathematics, and
Technology
School of the Future
School of the Holy Child
Schreiber HS
Second Opportunities School
Sedgwick School
Settlement Health Clinic
Seward Park HS
Sheepshead Bay HS
Side Street Kids
Solomon Schechter of NY HS
South Bronx HS
South Shore HS
Southampton HS
Spence School
Springfield Gardens HS
St. Francis of Assisi School
St. Francis School
St. George School
St. Jean Baptiste HS
St. John's Recreation Center
St. John's Residence for Boys
St. Joseph HS
St. Michael Academy
St. Paul Baptist Church
St. Vincent's Hospital
Staten Island Children's Council
Staten Island Technical HS
Stella Maris HS
Streetwork Project
Studio Museum in Harlem
Sun Yat Sen MS
Sunnyside Community Services
SUNY at Old Westbury
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Susan E. Wagner HS
Taft HS
Talent Unlimited HS
Teachers Preparatory School
TEAK Fellowship
Teen Action NYC
Teen Choice
Teen Talk Productions
Teens Helping Each Other
The Business School for Entrepreneurial Studies
The Door
The Family Center
The Floating Hospital
Thomas A. Edison Vocational and Technical HS
Tottenville HS
Townsend Harris HS
Transitional Ninth Grade Program
Trinity School
United Nations International School
Unity HS
Universal Baptist Church
University Heights HS
University Neighborhood HS
Upper Room of Prayer
Urban Strategies Management Corp.
US Department of State
Validus Preparatory Academy
Vassar College
Vocational Foundation
W.E.B. Dubois HS
Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and
Visual Arts
Walt Whitman School
Walton HS
Wildcat Junior and Senior HS
William C. Bryant HS
William E. Grady Vocational HS
William H. Maxwell Vocational HS
William H. Taft HS
William J. O'Shea School
William Wordsworth School
Wings Academy
YMCA of Greater New York
Young Adult Borough Center
Young Adults Against Drugs and Alcohol
Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem
Youth Base
Youth Organizers United
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"When an individual
who has AIDS presents with as much power and assertion as the Love Heals speaker did, the students listen and learn."
- Candido Pineiro,
Coordinator for
Physical Education
at George Westinghouse High School
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