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Dileesha is a 4th year undergraduate life science student at the University of Toronto. She would like to pursue a Master's and Ph.D. in public health and health policy, and go on to will advocate for global health equity and contribute to research on this matter. She is also a firm believer in advocacy for student wellness and mental health especially in the life sciences.
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Karyna is a Canadian newcomer from Ukraine. At such a young age, she faced injustice of this world and now she dreams of creating an impact and helping struggling communities to make the world a safer and healthier place.
day 1 |12:00 est
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Eunice Aluko is a Nigerian fourth-year undergraduate life science student at the University of Toronto. She is pursuing an honours Bachelor of Science with a major in Human Biology. She aspires to work as a physician and health equity researcher.
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Alicia Sánchez has worked on HIV, SRHR, gender, human rights, and youth and development issues at the country, regional and global levels. She is passionate about promoting youth leadership and meaningful adolescent and youth engagement at all levels of policy framing on areas concerning their health and wellbeing. Alicia currently holds the Advisor, Youth Engagement position at the Secretariat of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
day 1 |12:05 est
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Juliet Joslyn Amoli is a social scientist from Makerere University in Uganda. Juliet is passionate about leadership, skilling and HIV prevention advocacy among young people. She has vast experience as a sexual reproductive health advocate, researcher, gender and development practitioner.
day 1 |12:45 est
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Shawntella is a woman who is shaped by humble roots. She channels her past into a present mission to empower and equip people with skills that teach self-love, confidence, and resilience.
day 1 |13:00 est
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Abiya Karamat, a passionate gender equality activist from Pakistan, is a final-year Health Education undergraduate. She's a part of PrEP The Future Program, conducting impactful workshops in Lahore. Abiya currently coordinates workshops at the Institute for Social and Youth Development and interns at Gender Guardian.
day 1 |13:30 est
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David ita is a Nigerian by birth and a Community HIV prevention advocate with 12 years experience in Biomedical, Behavioral and Structural interventions on HIV prevention. He has championed several HIV/AIDS projects and has some abstracts accepted internationally. Currently he is a PrEP booth camp champion and also a member of International AIDS Society.
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Sikhulile is an SRH advocate trained on the Hivos SRHR Leadership Programme, she serves as Vice Secretary for the Country Coordinating Mechanism(CCM) Youth Constituency Board in Eswatini.
day 1 |13:30 est
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Rohail is a pharmacist who graduated from UofT in 2021 and grew up in Northern Ontario.
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Abishay is a PhD student at Texas Tech, hailing from Lahore, Pakistan, is a published researcher in Health Communication and SRHR. He's also served as a US State Department Youth Cultural Ambassador and currently instructs Public Speaking and Intercultural Communication at US universities.
day 1 |15:00 est
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Eva Bloom is an award-winning non-binary, queer sex educator and speaker. They have spoken at institutions including Cornell University and the University of Toronto and educated over 3 million people across the globe via their digital platform.
day 1 |15:00 est
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Elsa is a 2nd generation settler in so-called Canada, born to parents who immigrated separately from Mexico and El Salvador as youth. Elsa completed her degree in Sociology and always had a passion for social justice. She currently works as a Support Worker at BWSS, supporting survivors navigate the effects of GBV and IPV.
day 1 |15:00 est
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Jordan, is a first nation Canadian from Saskatchewan Prince Albert, he is 2spirited male, 28 years old, has been hiv positive for 12 years and been a HIV Peer Support Worker for 10 years.
day 1 |15:35 est
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Sam is a consent and sex educator with a focus on building a culture of consent on College and University campuses. She currently works right upstairs at the Toronto Met Students Union, providing sex education and resources to students in order to fill in some of the major gaps left by the high school sex ed curriculum.
day 1 |15:50 est
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Jeneka renownedly known as The Nomadic Nympho is a Carribean-Canadian solo traveller, somatic sexual health educator, and writer. She has a background in Psychology, Social and Applied Human Sciences, and is currently studying hard to obtain a graduate diploma in Sexualities, Marriages and Families. She strives to create pleasure-filled, trauma-informed, tender spaces that decentralize euro/phallocentric standards. And she is fueled (shamelessly) by TikTok, the colour yellow and pasta. Lots and lots of pasta.
day 1 |15:50 est
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Tim is a board certified sexology educator with the American Board of Sexology and a pleasure advocate based in Toronto, Canada. He began his sexual journey through escorting where he worked with a number of clients from different backgrounds and all walks of life ranging from couples, individuals, poly relationships, and everything in between. It is his mission in life to make sex fun and funny as he loves to make people laugh .
day 1 |15:50 est
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Jayce is a 4th generation Canadian, downtown resident, sex worker for 13 years, circus fitness instructor for 6, aspiring art therapist.
day 1 |15:50 est
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Samantha Bitty is a sexual health/consent educator, social change worker, media personality, drag queen, 1st gen immigrant/settler, sober person in long term recovery, and survivor of SV/GBV.
day 1 |15:50 est
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Andrew oversees communications, research and campaigns for the Global Equality Caucus, based in London, UK. As an LGBT+ rights researcher and public affairs professional he has led on policy research examining health equity, international development and inclusive legislation, and has worked with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global LGBT+ Rights in the UK Parliament.
day 1 |16:55 est
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Alan is Scottish and lives in London, UK. He has lots of experience working in LGBT+ and HIV advocacy. He lives with his husband and dog.
day 1 |16:55 est
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Katya (she/her) is a 3rd-year psychology student who is excited to attend her first No Time To Wait conference with LetsStopAIDS. She is passionate about social justice advocacy and loves learning from diverse perspectives.
day 1 |16:55 est
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Arihant is an optimistic leader, who believes in the power of youth involvement & technology to help end the HIV/AIDS epidemic, depicted in his HIV advocacy ventures, such as the co-founder of SexWell & the Community Outreach team-lead at LetsStopAIDS.
day 1 |16:55 est
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Praneet is a P2P Facilitator.
day 1 |16:55 est
Proudly LGBTQ+ owned and operated, we are an inclusive space and provide care to people of all backgrounds and identities. We’re all about community and since opening have given back over $100,000 to HIV/AIDS organizations across the province. We are also an Ontario Living Wage employer and strong believers in worker rights.
day 1 |13:30 est
The Global Equality Caucus (equalitycaucus.org) is an international network of parliamentarians and elected representatives aiming to tackle discrimination against LGBT+ people. Membership is open to legislators across the world, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, who support equality.
Legislators have a unique role to bring about change by creating and amending laws, voting funds and applying political pressure. Working in partnership, the Caucus aims to harness this to bring about change in areas such as decriminalisation, anti-discrimination laws and equal access to healthcare.
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