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Jeff Berry Former Editor-in-Chief

Jeff Berry, the former Editor of Positively Aware magazine, and has served as Editor and Director of Publications since April 2005. Berry has written for a number of publications and websites, including The Huffington Post and TheBody.com. He was a contributing author for the book Out and Proud in Chicago, and has appeared on Sirius OutQ Radio’s “The Morning Jolt” with Larry Flick and “The Michelangelo Signorile Show.” He is an active member of the Fair Pricing Coalition and the AIDS Treatment Activist’s Coalition (ATAC). Berry was on the Host Steering Committee for the 2011 United States Conference on AIDS, where he also served as co-chair of the Media Committee. He was the first ever recipient of the TPAN Award of Excellence in 2003, and was awarded the Chicago Area HIV/AIDS Caucus (EASE) Long Term Survivor Award in 2006. Berry resides in Chicago, Illinois.

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Job Description

Enid Vázquez Associate Editor

Kathleen Fitch, MSN, FNP

Joel Gallant, MD, MPH

Andrew Reynolds

Andrew Reynolds

Alan McCord

Ashley Slye

Benjamin DiCosta

Carlos A. Perez

Catherine Hanssens

Chad Zawitz, MD

Christopher M. Nguyen, PharmD, AAHIVP

Damon L. Jacobs

David Alain Wohl, MD

David Durán

David Ernesto Munar

David Evans

David Malebranche, MD, MPH

David Fawcett, PhD, LCSW

Diane Peters

Drew Gibson

Positively Aware Erin Marcus, MD, MPD, FACP

Erin Marcus, MD, MPH, FACP

Gary Nelson

Greg Cassin

Jeff Taylor

Jessica Terlikowski

Jim Pickett

Joanna Eveland, MD

Josh Tager

Kathleen Fitch, MSN, FNP

Kellee Terrell

Ken Almanza

Kenyon Farrow

Laura Jones

Liz Highleyman

Mariah Depass

Marina Kurakin, MSW, MFA

Mark S. King

Matt Sharp

Melanie Thompson, MD

Melanie Thompson, MD

Moisés Agosto-Rosario

Olivia G. Ford

Olivia G. Ford (she, her; they, them) is a freelance editor and writer, past perinatal health advocate and editorial director for The Well Project, an online information, support and advocacy resource serving women living with HIV across the gender spectrum. She has worked primarily in HIV-related media since 2007. Her work has appeared in Black AIDS Weekly, Positively Aware, POZ, Rewire and TheBody/TheBodyPro, among other outlets.

Patricia Douglas

Peter Shalit, MD, PhD

Rae Lewis-Thornton

Renata Smith, PharmD

Richard Jefferys

Rick Guasco Editor-in-Chief

Rick Loftus, MD

Rob Garofalo, MD

Ross Slotten, MD

Sharon Lee, MD

Tim Horn

Timothy Ray Brown

Victoria Noe

Nelson Vergel

Tonia Poteat, PhD, PA-C, MPH

Michelle Simek

Asa Radix, MD, MPH, AAHIVS

Jason Arsenault

Jason Arsenault

Joseph Darius Jaafari

Joseph Darius Jaafari is a writer and documentary filmmaker based out of Brooklyn, NY. His work on military and veteran health can be seen in VICE, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and Quartz. He is also a guest lecturer on military and sex at the University of Chicago’s School of Professional Psychology in Washington, D.C. He can be reached via his website josephdariusjaafari.com or Twitter @josephjaafari.

Amy K Johnson

George Green

Jourdan Barnes

Josh Tager and David Evans

Josh Tager

Jian Huang

David Evans

Charles Sanchez

Karine Dubé

Karine Dubé and Jeff Berry

Anne-Christine d’Adesky

Warren Tong

Warren Tong is a freelance health and science journalist, with an extensive background writing about HIV and hepatitis C.

Scott Schoettes

Scott Schoettes is an attorney and advocate who lives openly with HIV. He engages in impact litigation, public policy work and education to protect, enhance and advance the rights of everyone living with HIV.

Bridgette Picou

Bridgette Picou, LVN, ACLPN, is a licensed vocational and certified AIDS Care Nurse in Palm Springs, California. She works for The Well Project-HIV and Women as their stakeholder liaison. Bridgette is a director at large for ANAC (the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care), and a sitting member of the board of directors for HIV & Aging Research Project-Palm Springs (HARP-PS). Bridgette’s goal is to remind people that there are lives being lived behind a three-or four-letter acronym.