2005: Global AIDS Activist Leadership Summit - Participants

Oluwatoyin Akinpelu, Founder, Southern California Chapter of the Nigerian-American Public Professionals Association; founder, Ishshah Foundation International Ministries dedicated to countering the spread of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.

Nitin Bakshi, Member, Association for India's Development (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Dr. Nathan Beachy, Family medical practitioner; holds informational training sessions at churches and regional conferences (Cleveland, Ohio)

Dr. Rochele Beachy, Family medical practitioner; member, Mennonite Central Committee Great Lakes (Cleveland, Ohio)

Ronald Brabson, Member, Ryan White Consortia and community planning groups statewide; representative, Tennessee Association of People with AIDS (Knoxville, Tennessee)

Stacy Carkonen, Grassroots Director, RESULTS Educational Fund (Seattle, Washington)

Arman Codianne, Healing Touch International massage therapist with Alcoholics Anonymous in Mississippi and California; worked with health care and orphans projects in South Africa

Clare Effiong, Director, Esther's Aid for Needy and Abandoned Children (New Rochelle, NY)

Mary Frost, R.N., Holistic nurse with Holistic Wellness Network (Biloxi, Mississippi); worked on health care and education projects in South Africa

Allison Gallagher, RESULTS Educational Fund grassroots volunteer (Oberlin, Ohio)

Robin Goff, Director, Light Center (Baldwin, Kansas); currently organizing a volunteer mission outreach focused on orphaned and vulnerable children in South Africa

Dr. Vineeta Gupta, Director, Stop HIV/AIDS in India Campaign; member, Association for India's Development; formerly General Secretary, Insaaf International, a Punjab-based human rights group

Collette Hernandez, RESULTS Educational Fund grassroots volunteer (Topeka, Kansas)

Ann Jones, RESULTS Educational Fund grassroots volunteer (Columbus, Indiana); active on issues related to HIV/AIDS and debt relief

Rev. Lisa Marchal, Associate Pastor, First United Methodist Church (Columbus, Indiana); affiliated with RESULTS, Columbus Peace Fellowship, DATA, The One Campaign, and the Methodist Church's General Board of Church and Society

Pauline Muchina, Faith-Based Organization Coordinator, Population Services International; member, Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians and Board member, Global AIDS Alliance

Dennis Niekro, Director of Religious Education, Temple Israel (Columbus, Ohio); volunteer educator with the Columbus AIDS Task Force

Lois O'Donnell, Member, Western Iowa Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; working on a church project to aid the Gonja Hospital in Tanzania, where her church has a companion synod

Ken Patterson, RESULTS Educational Fund grassroots volunteer (Westchester, New York)

Martine Polycarpe, Faculty member, Department of Global Health, Loma Linda University School of Public Health, and Program Director, Students for International Mission Service (California)

Gary Richardson, AIDS Task Force of Greater Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio); Board of Directors, National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA)

Darrell Robinson, Past president and Board member, AIDS Services Center Coalition (Louisville, Kentucky)

Shamani Shikwambi, Doctoral student, University of Northern Iowa (Cedar Falls, Iowa); Coordinator, National Early Childhood Development NGO Association in Namibia

Scott Swearingen, RESULTS Educational Fund volunteer (Tulsa, Oklahoma)

Marsha Thomas, R.N., Medical missionary; volunteer with Greater New Hope Baptist Church (Cincinnati, Ohio); organizer, ³Faith, Health and Spirituality in the Black Church² conference; HIV prevention instructor, Red Cross; member, Greater Cincinnati Faith Initiative

Holly Tompkins, Member Executive Board, Junior League (Louisville, Kentucky); volunteer with ASCC and DATA

Susan Weissert, Lay missioner and coordinator, Maryknoll AIDS Task Force (Maryknoll, New York); worked in public health and grassroots health education in Chile and Peru

Joanne Welter, Director, Catholic Social Mission Office for the Diocese (Tucson, Arizona); traveled to AIDS projects in Africa and Asia

Lywanda White, Program Director, South Mississippi AIDS Task Force (Biloxi, Mississippi)

Nicole Young, M.P.H., Campaign Coordinator, Global Action for Children (Washington, D.C.)

Global AIDS Alliance:
David Bryden, Communications Director
David Gartner, Policy Director
Dr. Paul Zeitz, Executive Director

John M. Lloyd Foundation:
Melanie Havelin, Executive Director