Hello friends and family! As I prepare this page for the 2025 San Francisco AIDS Walk, my mind travels back to my first AIDS Walk in Washington DC, in 1995, right after I moved home from college. My profile photo is from that march. The CDC estimates that 50,000 U.S. residents died of AIDS that year. This was a year before effective treatment, HAART, changed the trajectory of a person infected with the HIV virus. Before 1996, over 300,000 US residents died as a result of the virus.

I fear the impacts of President Trump's budget cuts to HIV prevention programs and vaccine research. I worry that rates of infection will rise and lack of access to medication [or health insurance to cover medication] will lead to increased AIDS-related suffering and death.

This year's AIDS Walk San Francisco feels more urgent than ever. As a proud ally to the Queer community and as a member of the National AIDS Memorial Board of Directors, I am walking to raise funds to support our mission and programs.

Please support my march this year. All donations made will directly support the programs that I have helped to develop and execute over the last 7 years.