Joe
Community Education Assistant

Joe provides administrative support for the Community Education Unit. He joined the HVTN after working with the Institutional Review Board at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Prior to that, he worked for an insurance defense law firm in San Diego.

Joe earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from San Diego State University on a full scholarship from the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. During his undergraduate work, he served on the Associated Student Council and was involved in the campus redesign project. Joe also helped develop student discussion forums to address issues of race, class, gender and sexual orientation to prospective teachers. These student discussion forums were so well received that they were later adopted by campus housing administrators for use in the residence halls.

When away from the office, Joe loves to travel, cook, read (mostly books outside the traditional literary canon), and he is currently training for a 205-mile bicycle ride to raise money for a local AIDS service organization. He also volunteers as a group leader for the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership program in Los Angeles. Joe speaks fluent Spanish, some French, and is working on his Portuguese.

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