September 4, 2014 - Positive Women's Network, USA.
Positive Women's Network – USA (PWN-USA) congratulates two of our members, Gina Brown of New Orleans and Grissel Granados of Los Angeles, on their recent appointments to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). PACHA is the premier federal advisory body on the HIV epidemic, and includes a diversity of stakeholders in the HIV field among its roughly two dozen members. Brown, Granados and other incoming PACHA members are being sworn in today in Washington, DC.
Gina Brown
"As a member of PACHA, I hope to keep women a vital part of the conversation," says Brown, a social worker and member of PWN-USA's Board of Directors who is currently pursuing her second Master's degree, in Public Policy. Brown brings 12 years of experience on the HIV community's frontlines – as a case manager, primarily in a Ryan White Part D-funded program working with women, young people and families, as well as a leader in a number of regional and national planning bodies. "I also bring 20 years of being an HIV-positive woman," Brown adds; "I am looking forward to this exciting new chapter in my journey!" Continue reading...