2019 Scholars
Anthony
Ciara
JJ
Nicholas
Nicole
Rod
Tankut
Troizel
Nicholas L. Calvin
Nicholas L. Calvin is a native of Nashville, TN. Growing up in Nashville, Nicholas served on the Mayor’s Youth Council and was a member of several organizations including, but not limited to, East Nashville Magnet School’s Allies, SGA, FCA, and the National Honor Society.
Nashville, TN - Nashville State University - Two-Year Full-Time 2019 HIV League Scholar ($7,000)
Troizel D. L. Carr
An artist, advocate, and academic, Troizel is black + alive and that means more than these words can say. They are pursuing their PhD at New York University in Performance Studies, where they also earned their MA. Currently, their research wants to consider figurations of black children in post-emancipation aesthetics and the capacities of those figurations to articulate the possibility of black freedom.
Newark, NJ - New York University - The 2019 Eagle NYC HIV League Scholar (Two-Year Full-Time; $7,000)
John Arthur Jackson, III “JJ”
JJ is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. JJ’s current research interests are centered on counseling queer youth of color, communities most impacted by HIV/AIDS through a mental health context, and social determinants of health that influence the sexual behaviors of QPOCs.
Jacksonville, FL - The Chicago School of Professional Psychology - Two-Year Full-Time 2019 HIV League Scholar ($7,000)
Anthony R. Lucas
Anthony holds an M.A. in Psychology from the Wright Institute and a B.A. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a third-year doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley. His doctoral research focuses on romantic relationship dissolution and the impact of heartbreak on the self-concept of LGBT identified people.
Oakland, CA - Wright Institute - Two-Year Full-Time 2019 HIV League Scholar ($7,000)
Tankut Atuk
Tankut is a second-year PhD student in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He holds two master’s degrees in Gender Studies and Sociology/Cultural Studies. His current project looks at the socio-political dimensions of the world’s fastest growing HIV epidemic in Turkey.
Minneapolis, MN - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - One-Year Full-Time 2019 HIV League Scholar ($3,500)
Medical Student
Because of the nature of the HIV League Scholarship, recipients have the option to not make their name public. This HIV League Scholar requested to keep their name private, and we are respecting their wishes.
Chicago, IL - Two-Year Full-Time 2019 HIV League Scholar ($7,000)
Nicole Begay
Nicole Begay is a 20-year-old third year student at the University of Arizona. She is studying Retail and Consumer Sciences to work with her Fashion minor. Her plans for the next 5 years include starting up a small business selling fashionable trends and eventually RED products to continue supporting the HIV community. Nicole loves everything crafty and creative, can never give up on a hobby until it is perfect, and when she puts her mind to something there is nothing that will stop her.
Mesa, AZ - University of Arizona - One-Year Full-Time 2019 HIV League Scholar ($3,500
Rod McCoy Jr.
Rodney “Rod” McCoy, Jr. has been in public health for over thirty years. In this work, Rod brings his expertise in HIV, STI and Hepatitis prevention and education, as well as his real-life experience as a Black gay man living with HIV. An Oberlin graduate with his Bachelor’s in Sociology and Black Studies, Rod has worked in a variety of capacities for a number of organizations. In his time as an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University, Rod established the “HIV, Culture and Sexuality” course for the school’s Global and Community Health Department (where he still presents as a guest lecturer).
Silver Spring, MD - Widener University - One-Year Part-Time 2019 HIV League Scholar ($1,500)
Ciara Owens
Ciara Owens is working on her doctoral degree of Education in Organizational Leadership with an Emphasis in K-12 Education from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona. Her dissertation focuses on the secondary teacher experience of the use and implementation of distributive leadership by principals.
Las Vegas, NV - Grand Canyon University - One-Year Part-Time 2019 HIV League Scholar ($1,500)