Waheedah Shabazz-El, at The Reunion Project

May 2024 - Thera Community Champion

Waheedah Shabazz-El is a Black American Muslim woman and retired postal worker, diagnosed with AIDS in 2003. She is a community organizer, strategist & trainer, a graduate of Project TEACH and a longtime member of ACT-UP Philadelphia. Waheedah is a founding member of Positive Women’s Network-USA and is currently advancing a national alliance of HIV long-term survival with The Reunion Project. In the area of HIV Cure Research Waheedah is chairperson Emeritus for the Delaney Collaboratory BEAT HIV Cure CAB at the Wistar Institute as well as the Penn CFAR CAB. Her proudest moments: A White House reception in 2010, invited by President Barack Obama. Delivering the Closing Plenary address at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, representing the USA.