2018 Scholars
Alex
Tranisha
Michael
Drew
Alex Aldana
Alex Aldana, is a 31-year-old undocumented queer activist, movement organizer from Guadalajara, Mexico raised in the fields of the Coachella Valley, CA. Alex fights against the criminalization and human rights violations of trans/queer immigrant communities in the United States.
Los Angeles, CA - Los Angeles City College - Two-Year Full-Time 2018 HIV League Scholar ($7,000)
Tranisha Arzah
Tranisha Arzah is a first-year and full-time student starting in the fall quarter. She will be attending Seattle Central College to study within the Community Health and Education track and to receive an Associate of Arts or Associate of Science degree with an emphasis in Equity and Social Justice.
Seattle, WA - Seattle Central College - Two-Year Full-Time 2018 HIV League Scholar ($7,000)
Michael B. Clark
Michael B. Clark is pursuing their Master’s of Public Health at New York University, with a focus on Social and Behavioral Health. Their primary interest is how stigma impacts the health and HIV-vulnerability of marginalized populations, with much of their research being with sexual minority refugees and migrants in East Africa.
New York, NY - New York University - Two-Year Full-Time 2018 HIV League Scholar ($7,000)
Drew Hockman
Drew Hockman is a first-year Master of Social Welfare student at the University of California, Berkeley. Drew’s research interests focus on the intersections of social welfare with public health, where social determinants of health push care systems to look beyond medical interventions and address the norms and values that make people vulnerable to HIV in the first place.
Minneapolis, MN - University of California, Berkley - Two-Year Full-Time 2018 HIV League Scholar ($7,000)