PWN Greater Houston Area (PWN GHA) is honored to be part of PWN as an official affiliated organization. We mean business and we know that nothing about us without us is for us. PWN will give us the support, tools, and mentorship to make advocacy for women in the Greater Houston Area a reality.
Jessi Mona Cartwright-Biggs
Jessi Mona Cartwright-Biggs is a grandmother and activist who lives in Houston, Texas. She’s spent the past year fighting for our rights on numerous fronts and by getting folks to register and vote in the midterms. Cartwright-Biggs, who jokes that “HIV has been living with me for 19 years,” is one of the founders of the Positive Women’s Network-USA Texas Greater Houston Area chapter and transitioned from its Communications Action Team officer to Chair. As a survivor of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and violence in the workplace, Cartwright-Biggs says she has been able to use her trauma for good to help others and empathize with those who experience trauma themselves.
Cartwright-Biggs is currently celebrating 32 years of continued sobriety. Cartwright-Biggs says the biggest challenges facing Americans living with HIV are healthcare, reproductive rights, racial justice, social justice, and economic justice. “All of these are issues that will keep any civic-minded person engaged and very busy,” she acknowledges. “It is an uphill battle and the struggle continues.”
Cartwright-Biggs is currently celebrating 32 years of continued sobriety. Cartwright-Biggs says the biggest challenges facing Americans living with HIV are healthcare, reproductive rights, racial justice, social justice, and economic justice. “All of these are issues that will keep any civic-minded person engaged and very busy,” she acknowledges. “It is an uphill battle and the struggle continues.”