CAPS Community Advisory Board (CAB)

Daniel Bao

William Bland

William Bland has been with the CAPS CAB for 5 years. He is the Director of Community Programs at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF). During William's tenure at SFAF, the department has focused on community level change and social capital development: "It's about promoting health for all gay, bisexual and same gender loving men, it's about HIV health which involves assisting men with making decisions around their risk of HIV infection and the maintenance of their health once infected. It is also about working on a community level, because we can't fight HIV one person at a time, but a united community can bring about monumental change."

Amanda Elder

Amanda B. Elder has been on the UCSF CAPS CAB since 2004. She is a clinical psychology grad student at The Wright Institute in Berkeley. Prior to school, she spent six years managing two HIV Testing programs with Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center and Glide Health Services in San Francisco. Amanda also provided capacity building assistance for rapid HIV testing. She provided HIV testing to recruit participants for the UCSF Reach Study. To relax after long, hard days of studying, Amanda enjoys motorcycle rides with her hot girlfriend and throwing clay.

aelder@wrighinst.edu

Beth Freedman

Beth Freedman has been advocating and working for the health of women, young people and LGBT people since 1993. She has been involved with City College of San Francisco since 1995: as a student, classified staff and now as a full-time Instructor. She currently teaches Women's Health Issues and HIV Community Leadership Training. Her areas of interest include social discrimination and health and structural interventions to improve health.

Her past work includes working at CAPS on making HIV prevention research more accessible to affected communities and as a Community Educator and Trainer for The Riley Center, Shelter and Services for Battered Women and their Children. She also has worked in the areas of sexuality and women's reproductive health. Ms. Freedman has a BA in Sociology from the University of Florida and an MPH from the University of California, Berkeley.

Lee Jewell

R. Lee Jewell joined the UCSF CAPS CAB in 2006. He is a Marriage, Family Therapist Intern (MFT-I) since receiving his MA in Clinical Psychology at New College of CA. Lee has been actively involved in the HIV/AIDS community since testing positive in 1986. Prior community work includes: PWA Liaison to the MI State Legislature, Client Services Director for the SF Center for Living, HIV/AIDS educator (K-12), SFDPH AIDS Office Reggie Policy Board. Current involvement includes: STOP AIDS Project / Positive Force CAB, UCSF Positive Partners CAB, Board of Directors Project Open Hand. "My desire is to see a more integrated and healthy LGBT community, specifically men who have sex with men (MSM.) HIV/AIDS has propelled us as a community to work towards healthier ways of interacting. I firmly believe we need one another, to work together, to make this happen." 

Lorenzo Hinajosa

Bridget Hughes

Bridget is Director of Outreach and Prevention at WORLD (Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases), an organization founded by and for HIV+ women and their allies to educate, inspire, and advocate for the HIV+ women locally, nationally and internationally. As Director of Outreach and Prevention, Bridget oversees programs outreaching to HIV+ women who are not accessing the care that they need and deserve, integrating prevention with positive strategies into existing WORLD programs through development of new models for prevention by positives, supervising WORLD's positive women's speakers bureau, and launching the newly funded POWERR Project addressing HIV prevention among at risk girls in the Oakland community. She is trained as an anthropologist and has experience in advocacy and program management and development in the fields of mental health, homelessness, school gardening, community greening, indigenous rights and activist and participatory research for social change.

Alix Lutnick - Co Chair

Alexandra Lutnick is the Project Coordinator for the SWEAT (Sex Worker Environmental Assessment Team) Study conducted by the University of California San Francisco in collaboration with St. James Infirmary. The SWEAT Study seeks to characterize sexual and drug-using behavior and prevalence of HIV, STIs, HBV, and HCV among female sex workers in San Francisco, and to examine the women's psychological risk factors associated with these infections.

Alix received her MA in Human Sexuality Studies from San Francisco State University in the spring of 2004.

lutnicka@obgyn.ucsf.edu

Bongane Nyathi

Ramón Ramírez

Tara Regan

Tara Regan is the Children and Family Programs Manager for Centerforce, a NGO/CBO working with prisoners, their families and persons recently released from jails and prisons in Northern and Central California. Tara has worked for Centerforce for 4 years. Tara supervises the San Quentin State Prison (SQSP) Visitors Center a multi service hospitality center for visiting loved ones; Families Moving Forward a family reunification case management program based out of Marin County Jail; Back to Family a family reunification case management program based out of SQSP; the LIFE mentoring program which serves youth whom have an incarcerated parent; and Live Love Learn a peer health education HIV prevention program working with SQSP women visitors. Tara received her B.S. in Criminal Justice and minor in International Politics at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.