Diana Feliz Oliva has worked in the field of social services and public health for over 25 years. Her work began in 1994 with the County of Fresno – Department of Social Services to her position as HIV Community Liaison at Gilead Sciences in 2017, making her the first openly Transgender person hired by Gilead. Because of her unique and valuable expertise on Transgender and HIV issues, Diana was promoted to Senior Manager in Public Affairs in 2019, in which, she has been developing a national Transgender Community Engagement Strategy by any biopharmaceutical company in history. As of January 2021, she has become the Associate Director of Advocacy and Community Engagement in Public Affairs and will launch the first-ever global Transgender Community Engagement Strategy for Latin American countries.

A graduate of Columbia University with a master’s degree in Social Work in 2005, her particular interest has been advancing the development of public policy that addresses community-level health and social problems. Turning her daunting personal challenges and barriers into the very basis of her activism, Ms. Oliva has become an effective social advocate and role model. Her work is shown giving voice and visibility to not only the HIV + positive communities, but also to the multiple, overlapping communities her life has touched.

Drew has worked professionally at PFLAG NYC since 2007, but his involvement goes back even further as a volunteer and recipient of PFLAG’s services since he came out as gay while at Amherst College. Drew leads the PFLAG NYC team, setting strategic direction, and growing the organization through fundraising, marketing, and communications. Prior to PFLAG NYC he worked as a consultant in corporate strategy and leadership development. But he’s always had LGBTQ activism in his blood, having been involved in the fight for LGBTQ immigrant and refugee rights since the 1990s when he co-founded one of the organizations that became Immigration Equality.

Oscar Alonso Rodríguez born in Santa Cruz del Norte, former province of Havana, now Mayabeque. He studied a degree in computer science education, although since the age of 16 he has been professionally dedicated to Radio and Television Locution. At this moment he works at Radio Ciudad de la Habana doing the radio show “Aqui Na Ma” with music and news. His favorite hobbies are going to the beach, the theater, musical concerts and spending time with his best friends.

Currently working as a Gender Equity- Capacity Building Assistance Specialist for Latino Commission on AIDS and involved with NYSDOH HIV Advisory Body (HAB) as an active member. Former Coordinator of Trans Health Clinic for two years at APICHA CHC and Medical Case Manager for the Trans Family Program at Community Healthcare Network. Former Case manager for homeless women for six years at Bowery Resident’s Committee. Daniela is a native Ecuadorian and a woman of the transgender experience whose main goal is to create a so much-needed cultural change in our local, nationwide, and global communities as much as possible. Her unique career path has a meaningful impact on the awareness of the more pressing issues of the LGB communities, cisgender women, intersectional minorities, but especially Trans and gender variant communities. She loves gardening, illustrating, and working on DIY projects she finds online during her free time. Her vision and long-term goal are to amplify the education around Trans/GNC health issues to more agencies, service providers, health departments, and the community at large.

Francisco Ruiz is the Team Lead for the National Partnerships Team within CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP). In this capacity, his primary role is to provide leadership for the development and maintenance of partnerships initiatives that advance DHAP’s national HIV prevention goals. Mr. Ruiz serves on the leadership team that provides strategic direction for the development and dissemination of scientific, statistical, visual, and technical communications on HIV. Prior to joining CDC, Mr. Ruiz served as Senior Manager at the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) where he provided guidance to state and local health departments on how to address the disproportionate impact of HIV among the most impacted communities. Additionally, Mr. Ruiz served for two years as Chair of the National Latino AIDS Action Network (NLAAN), a network of civil society and key stakeholders that identifies and prioritizes the key HIV prevention, research and care and treatment needs of Latino communities.

In 2010, Mr. Ruiz was included in POZ Magazine’s inaugural “100 Most Influential AIDS Advocates.”  His commentary and work has appeared on various media outlets such as Destination Casa Blanca, POZ Magazine, NBC Latino, NPR Latino USA and AIDS.gov. Mr. Ruiz received a B.A. in Political Science and International Studies from Loyola University Chicago and an M.S. in Urban Policy Analysis and Management from Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy in New York City.