August 30, 2018

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In this issue:

• Meet Anjie Keyes, Our August 2018 Shero of the Month
• Don’t Miss PWN at USCA!
• ​Getting Out the Vote Part II: Voter Turnout

Meet our August Shero of the Month

Our August Shero of the Month is Mary Annjurene Keyes, known to most in the HIV advocacy community as Anjie, of Kansas City, MO.

Anjie has a long history of advocacy work as a motivational speaker and facilitator. Her proudest accomplishment happened on May 9, 2018, when she launched Positively Rare Enterprise. “I am most proud that my advocacy has empowered me to be in a position to start my own organization in which the target demographic is women living with and affected by HIV who are battling the effects of stigma,” she explained. “It is important to me because it allows people to move toward their own triumphs and find their resilience to move past the stigma of HIV and achieve personal freedom.”

Don’t Miss PWN at USCA!

PWN-USA members and staff will be at USCA in beautiful Orlando, Florida, representing U.S. women living with HIV. We hope you will join us for some of these discussions and presentations.

Whether you are at USCA or at home, you can follow us on Twitter to get in on the conversation by using the hashtags #pwnspeaks #2018USCA. Here is where you will find us at USCA! Find the schedule on our website here.

Daily 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Positively Aware Booth 206 in the Exhibit Hall Waheedah Shabazz-El will distribute outreach information on behalf of PWN-USA.

Thursday, September 6

Opening Plenary: Activism and the Intersection of Movements Fighting for Social Justice

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM 

Forging a Successful Path to HIV Criminalization Reform in California!

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM 

Sister to Sister: Women of Color Long Term – Survivors Building Our Voices of Resilience

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM 

HIV Communication: Reducing Stigma through Language

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM 

Friday, September 7

Long Term Survivor Joint Reception

4:00 PM – 7:15 PM Manatee Spring 1, Lobby Level 

Saturday, September 8

Let’s Fight Back: The Affordable Care Act is Under Attack

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Room: Celebration 3 & 4 

Plenary Luncheon: Trauma-Informed Care: Aging with HIV and the Trauma of Surviving

11:00 AM – 1:30 PM Plenary Ballroom 

PWN-USA Listening Session

6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Silver Spring Room, Convention Level This session will be for WLHIV only. 

Sunday, September 9

The Third U is Universal Access: Achieving Racial and Gender Justice in U=U

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM 

Inter-Generational Sisterhood and Storytelling Among Black Women Living with HIV

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM 

#​PWNVotes

This webinar will cover a myriad of ways to support voters actually casting their ballots, as well as ways we use and engage the bases we have been building to ensure our voters are casting their votes based on non-partisan education provided by Women Living with HIV.