HISTORY OF AIDS ACTIVISM

Julie Davids, CHAMP

Prevention Justice Seminar

October 13, 2004

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Julie Davids is the founding Executive Director of CHAMP. Davids was a leader in all three “most quoted” organizations recognized in the recent Ford Foundation report on Federal AIDS policy: she served as a primary organizer and media strategist in ACT UP Philadelphia for 14 years; was on the founding board of directors for the Global AIDS Alliance (GAA); and was a founder, press coordinator and community organizer for Health GAP.

From 1996-2002, Davids was a senior staff person at Philadelphia FIGHT, Pennsylvania’s largest AIDS service organization, as the co-founder of Project TEACH (Treatment Education Activists Combatting HIV), one of the nation’s first HIV treatment education and advocacy training programs; Director of Education and Advocacy; and as Director of the Critical Path AIDS Project.

In 2002, Davids was awarded the Charles H. Revson Fellowship at Columbia University, where she spent a year researching a plan for the revitalization of effective AIDS advocacy rooted in racial, economic and social justice. In 2003, she founded CHAMP as a New York City-based organization with the assistance of the founding Board of Directors. Currently, she serves as co-chair of the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership and its Community Mobilization working group.

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