A Girl Like Me LIVE

In the seventh episode of A Girl Like Me LIVE, Ci Ci Coleman talked with Community Advisory Board Members Ieshia Scott and Destiny Smith about parenting and sharing your HIV status with your kids. Living with HIV has its challenges and so does parenting. This discussion highlights how these mothers have managed their HIV diagnoses while parenting, how they talk to their children about HIV, and tips they have for other parents living with the diagnosis. No approach is one-size-fits-all and this is part of what was explored during our conversation. Learn tips on how to talk to your children about HIV and gain support from our diverse community with these wonderful mothers during this episode. Make sure to check out this amazing and vulnerable conversation!

The eighth in our The Well Project Leadership Exchange series features a conversation between The Well Project Community Advisory Board member, Senior HIV Testing Coordinator at Black AIDS Institute, and HIV advocate/influencer, Porchia Dees and Gilead Science’s Principal Medical Scientist and WRI member Gina Brown, MD. Join us as these inspirational leaders talk about pregnancy and HIV and the ways that treatment and care have and continue to evolve.

In this episode of A Girl Like Me LIVE, Ci Ci talked with Heather Rhea O'Connor of the International Community of Women Living with HIV - North America about Breastfeeding and HIV in honor of National Breastfeeding Awareness Month. As mothers, these two amazing advocates discussed their personal experiences around the information they received from providers concerning their ability to breastfeed, how they have chosen to make informed decisions to feed their children, and the work that they have done to assist other parents to make the best choices for them and their families. You do not want to miss this informative discussion between two mothers fighting for the right to feed their children as they choose.

The seventh in our The Well Project Leadership Exchange series features a conversation between The Well Project community advisory board (CAB) member, HIV advocate, blogger, and author Destiny Smith and The Well Project CAB chair and WRI member and Gina Brown, RSW, community engagement manager for the Southern AIDS Coalition. Please tune into to this incredible cross-generational dialogue and hear what each of these remarkable advocates had to learn from the other.

In this episode of A Girl Like Me LIVE, Ci Ci Coleman talked with Community Advisory Board member Masonia Traylor about pregnancy and HIV. These two powerful advocates dispel the myths and misinformation that continue today despite decades of science and evidence proving that women living with HIV can have healthy pregnancies. Both Ci Ci and Masonia shared their personal experiences being pregnant while living with HIV—including Ci Ci's current pregnancy!

In this episode of A Girl Like Me LIVE, Ci Ci talks with Community Advisory Board member Katie Willingham about U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable). These amazing leaders talk about what U=U means to them and the impact that learning about it has had on their lives. They also discuss their experiences sharing the message with others in the community, including providers!

The sixth in our The Well Project Leadership Exchange series features a conversation between one of The Well Project’s newest community advisory board (CAB) members, Katie Willingham, and WRI member and partner Naina Khanna, co-executive director of Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN-USA). Please check out this fascinating discussion to learn more about these two amazing women, their journeys to HIV advocacy, and about how they practice self-care, particularly in these extremely challenging times.

The Well Project Leadership Exchange is a new series connecting thoughtleaders in the HIV community to explore one another’s work, activism, and personal experiences.

Credits and thanks to Farah Jeune for video editing and production, Sweet Potato Design for logo development, Katie Willingham and Naina Khanna for participation, and The Well Project team.

The fifth in our The Well Project Leadership Exchange series features a conversation between The Well Project community advisory board (CAB) and Women’s Research Initiative on HIV/AIDS (WRI) member Gina Brown, RSW and our WRI member Chuck Wira, PhD. Gina is a community engagement manager at the Southern AIDS Coalition and Chuck is a professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. They are both long-time and highly valued members of the WRI. Please check out this warm dialogue as two long-time colleagues learn new things about each other and the ways they are each working to change the landscape of HIV for women.

The Well Project Leadership Exchange is a new series connecting thoughtleaders in the HIV community to explore one another’s work, activism, and personal experiences.

Credits and thanks to Farah Jeune for video editing and production, Sweet Potato Design for logo development, Gina Brown and Chuck Wira for participation, and The Well Project team.

We are really excited for our next episode, in which Ci Ci will talk with Community Advisory Board Chair Gina Brown, RSW about COVID-19 vaccination. These two inspiring women will talk about Gina’s personal experience with the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as clinical trials and vaccine hesitancy.

In the second episode of A Girl Like Me LIVE, Ci Ci will talk with Community Advisory Board Member Marissa Gonzalez about Dating and Disclosure. These two phenomenal leaders will describe their personal experiences with disclosure along their journeys living with HIV, offer tips for others, and discuss challenges they have faced.