Panel Discussion - Reflections on the AIDS Journey in West Michigan: Public Health and Community Care (APPROVED INT 100/201) - Events Calendar

Panel Discussion - Reflections on the AIDS Journey in West Michigan: Public Health and Community Care (APPROVED INT 100/201)

Wednesday, March 19, 2025
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus
Alumni, Community, Faculty, Staff, Students

This panel will focus on the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in West Michigan. From the beginning of the disease those affected struggled to find medical care and treatments. This was greatly worsened by the social stigma surrounding AIDS as well as discrimination against the LGBTQ community. This panel brings together West Michigan public health workers and LGBTQ community members from 1980s-early 2000s to discuss their experiences.

Panelists will include:

Jan Koopman
Michelle Johnson
Aaminah Shakur
Tommy Allen
Gary Van Harn

Our moderator will be Harold Clarke-Lopez.

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Location Information

Hager-Lubbers Exhibition Hall & Loosemore Auditorium

Richard M. DeVos Center - Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus

401 W. Fulton Street, Grand Rapids, MI 49504

Contact Information

Nora Salas

Director, Kutsche Office of Local History

Email: salasn@gvsu.edu

Phone: 616-331-8099

Ryan Moore

Office Coordinator, Kutsche Office of Local History

Email: moorer4@gvsu.edu

Phone: 616-331-8099

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This event was added to the calendar by Ryan Moore (moorer4@gvsu.edu) on Friday, February 21, 2025 and was last updated on Monday, March 10, 2025 at 10:14 a.m.