HIPS is currently recruiting new board members to serve a three-year term starting in February 2022. Interested candidates can find more information and fill out a short application form here. The deadline for applications is October 15, 2021.
Board of Directors
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Kelly Stevens, Board ChairPronouns: She/Her/Hers
Kelly Stevens is a native of the Washington, DC area with over 10 years of professional experience supporting the organizational development, workforce strengthening, and stakeholder engagement of nonprofits and government agencies across the country. Currently, Kelly works as a senior program manager of capacity building at AIDS United. |
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Gabrielle C. Newell, Board Vice ChairPronouns: She/Her/Hers
Gabrielle is a native Washingtonian who has volunteered with HIPS since 2014 and joined the HIPS Board in 2019. Gabrielle holds a commitment to client-led program design and harm reduction. Gabrielle brings experience in program design and evaluation, and grassroots fundraising. |
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Victoria M. Rodríguez-Roldán, JD Board SecretaryPronouns: She/Her/Hers
Victoria is a Senior Policy Manager at AIDS United. Particular areas of expertise and focus are the intersections of issues affecting transgender people with disabilities and mental illness, anti-trans workplace discrimination and gun violence prevention from a social justice lens. Victoria holds a B.A. in Psychology with honors from the University of Puerto Rico, and a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law. |
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Jonathan Zucker, Esq. Board TreasurerPronouns: He/Him/His
Jonathan is a political technology entrepreneur and campaign finance attorney; he is the founder of Democracy Engine (2009) and It Starts today (2016). He was the first COO and second CEO of ActBlue. Before joining ActBlue in early 2005, he spent the 2004 election cycle as the National Director of Operations - Finance at the Democratic National Committee. Prior to that, he was an organizer, fundraiser, administrator, or attorney for a variety of progressive organizations, including the Interfaith Alliance, HRC, Color of Change, Genderpac, and Gill Foundation. |
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Matthew Rose, Assistant TreasurerPronouns: He/Him/His
Matthew Rose is the Director of US Policy and Advocacy at Health GAP. He brings over a decade of experience in community engagement, federal health policy, HIV science, and advancing health equity. |
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Rene Bryce-Laport, Board MemberPronouns: He/Him/His
For over two decades, Rene has worked to help low- and moderate-income and communities find social and economic opportunity. He works to help people earn more, keep more of what they earn and build their assets for the future. He is an experienced advocate, facilitator, researcher, writer and director of multi-site projects. . |
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Malik Burnett, MD Board MemberPronouns: He/Him/His
As a physician advocate and entrepreneur, Dr. Malik Burnett works to advance the broader drug policy reform agenda with the goal of shifting US drug policy from framework based on criminal justice to one based on public health. He is currently involved in developing and advising a number of venture start-ups in the cannabis space and advancing harm reduction and drug treatment opportunties in the DMV area. |
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Whitney Case, Esq. Board MemberPronouns: She/Her/Hers
Whitney proudly supports the HIPS mission to provide healthcare and other basic necessities to some of DC's most underserved individuals. |
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Joylyn Hopkins, Board MemberPronouns: She/Her/Hers
Joy has been a District resident for more than 20 years. She has a background in performing arts, nonprofit management, and community organizing. |
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Stephen Lee, MD Board MemberPronouns: He/Him/His
Dr. Stephen Lee is the Executive Director of NASTAD. Stephen oversees all NASTAD programs – Health Care Access, Prevention, Hepatitis, Drug User Health, Health Equity, Policy & Legislative Affairs, and Health Systems Integration – as well as NASTAD’s overall operations. Stephen has deep expertise in program and organizational management, and his experience as a physician brings a practical perspective with regard to policy and program implementation. |
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Andrea López, Ph.D. Board MemberPronouns: She/Her/Hers
Dr. Andrea M. López is a professor and researcher with expertise in medical anthropology, urban anthropology, the anthropology of drug use, health inequities, the U.S. welfare state, and social suffering in U.S. urban contexts. She has nearly two decades of experience working with unstably housed and homeless people who use drugs, both in a harm reduction direct service capacity and as a trauma-informed researcher. She is currently a professor the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland. |
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Chelsea L. Ricker, Board MemberPronouns: She/Her/Hers
Chelsea L. Ricker is a lifelong sexual and reproductive rights activist with over 15 years professional experience supporting global and local women's and human rights organizations develop policy, program, and advocacy initiatives that work for their needs. As a consultant, Chelsea specializes in building organizational strategies, trainings, and capacity-building tools that are inclusive, intersectional, and community-driven. |
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Baraq Stein, Board MemberPronouns: He/Him/His
Baraq is a long time advocate on sex worker rights and a political fundraiser. He is Chair of HIPS Fundraising Committee. |
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Devon Trotter, Board MemberPronouns: He/Him/His or She/Her/Hers
Devon is a certified life coach and equity and inclusion professional in the climate and environmental conservation space, who brings a wealth of experience in nonprofit management, community engagement, event planning, fundraising, and peer group facilitation. An active member of the D.C. queer and art communities, Devon is a member of the Kennedy Center's inaugural Culture Caucus and volunteers for Whitman Walker and SMYAL. Devon has been a DJ and event planner since 2011.. |
If you are interested in joining HIPS' Board of Directors, you can express that interest by filling out this form. We will then get in touch with more information about the process and timeline.