CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF POSITIVE CHANGE
Honorees
AIDS Service Center NYC is proud to honor our Positive Changemakers whose generosity, vision, and selflessness have inspired so many.
Susan Abramowitz, PhD, Lower NY Consortium for Families, for integrating community providers into a medical care system since 1995
Lillian Anglada, ASC Consumer Advisory Council, for being the longest serving volunteer and Peer Educator, since 1992
Karen Brudney, MD and Jay Dobkin, MD, New York Presbyterian Hospital, for being the first hospital to bring community case managers into in-patient discharge planning, since 2005
Nadia Burgard, Donald Fried and Joseph J. Saltarelli, Hunton & Williams LLP, for providing comprehensive legal guidance and services for more than a decade
Eli Camhi, New York Presbyterian System SelectHealth, for pioneering a community-based model of peer educators as member service advocates for Medicaid managed care enrollees
Walter Chow, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, for being our first Federal Government funder and project officer, guiding HIV prevention efforts since 1999
Humberto Cruz, NYSDOH AIDS Institute, for being our first funder in 1990 – and our stalwart supporter today
Nick Flynn, Author, for supporting poetry in HIV care and for including peer educators and poets in “Being Flynn,” the film of your acclaimed memoir
Robert Fullilove, EdD, Mailman School of Public Health, for translating public health theory into HIV prevention and practice
Deborah J. Glick, New York State Assembly, for being our political partner, both inspiring and powering our joint fight for social justice partner
Julia Gruen, The Keith Haring Foundation, for transforming our Harlem office into a safe haven for health and healing
Barbara Johnston, MD and Gabriela Rodriguez, MD, Mount Sinai Medical Center, for partnership and leadership in bringing community services into doctor’s offices
K. Scott Kohanowski, Team New York Aquatics, for generosity, helping to integrate fitness and health into our program services
Robert La Fosse, Dancer, for courage, integrity and leadership in bringing together arts and healthcare in the fight against AIDS
Oliver Martin III, Conscious Contact of New York, for constant leadership and vision in creating Spiritual Outreach Services, giving voice to consumers of all races and faiths
Christine C. Quinn, New York City Council, for advocacy and leadership to meet the growing and changing needs of New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS
Ramon Ramirez and José Rodriguez, Sazon Perez, for feeding people affected by AIDS for over a decade
Charles B. Rangel, United States Congress, for harnessing the power of government to meet the needs in our communities
Victoria Sharp, MD, Center for Comprehensive Care St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, for vision and leadership in building community partnerships to ensure high-quality medical care
Lili Taylor, Actress, for valuable time, treasured support, and true compassion
Stanley Yancovitz, MD, Beth Israel Medical Center, for co-locating community case managers into the Peter Krueger Clinic since 2007
Caren Levine, Jeff Silver, Allen Zwickler, Seymour Zwickler, Phil Zwickler Charitable & Memorial Foundation Trust, for believing in the power of poetry as a path towards self-esteem, recovery and healing
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41 East 11th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003
212.645.0875
212.645.0705 (FAX)
info@ascnyc.org