 | Amirah Sequeira (National Coordinator) is a long time member and supporter of the Student Global AIDS Campaign. She became an AIDS activist when she was just 14 years old after a trip to visit her grandparents in Malawi. She spent her high school years running educational workshops on HIV/AIDS and training young advocates, and spoke at the 2006 International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada. Amirah holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and Sustainable Development from Columbia University, where she studied the history of the AIDS movement. Her senior thesis on the history of needle exchange activism receieved the Alan J Willen Memorial Prize. While in college, Amirah led the Columbia Student Global AIDS Campaign chapter, founded the Global Health Partnership Network, and worked with the Journal of Global Health, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, and the Student Governing Board. |
 | Mythili Prabhu (SGAC Fellow) has been a member of the Student Global AIDS Campaign for the past 4 years. She first became interested in global AIDS advocacy after traveling to Uganda following her senior year of high school and working with an NGO that provides vocational training to HIV-positive women. She joined SGAC as soon as she entered college, and joined the steering committee the next year. Mythili holds an A.B in Government with a secondary in Global Health and Health Policy from Harvard. In her role with SGAC, Mythili currently monitors global health policy and research developments and is involved with student mentorship, campaign planning, and chapter development. Her favorite SGAC action ever was marching with thousands of people during the 'We Can End AIDS' mobilization at the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington D.C. |
 | Mel Meder (SGAC Fellow) is a senior at Barnard College and a member of the Columbia University SGAC chapter. She also serves as a peer health educator in Barnard's wellness office, Well-Woman, and has interned at the Correctional Association of New York. She hopes to continue developing her data wrangling and design skills to support health justice organizing. Her favorite SGAC action was her first ever: the protest of Rep. Eric Cantor at Harvard in February 2011. |
 | Dakotah Chambers is a sophomore at St. Michael's College in Colchester, VT. She has been a member of the Student Global AIDS Campaign for the past two years. While at school, Dakotah studies Political Science and Gender Studies, and has an internship with Health GAP. She has been an avid member of SGAC and has learned great activism techniques since joining. Her first protest ever was at Hofstra University for the presidential debate between Obama and Romney, where she and other members of the Saint Michael’s SGAC Chapter met up with Queerocracy to protest HIV Criminalization. Other actions she has participated in, include; Birddogging Bernie Sanders on the Robin Tax, Legislative Visits (Both in-district and on The Hill with VT reps, Sanders, Leahy, and Welch),Teach-ins, Die-Ins, Rallies, Press Work, Etc. She is excited to further her knowledge on related HIV/AIDS health issues! |
 | Christina Chandra is a senior at Yale University studying the History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health. She was first introduced to activism her sophomore year when she went on her first SGAC action at the Republican Presidential Candidates Debate at Dartmouth. Although she has been to other actions since then, that will always be her favorite action because it was her first and it was exciting. As a part of SGAC, she has learned more about global health and the AIDS epidemic than any class could teach her. With Yale's chapter, she has also been involved in local and national efforts to repeal the ban on federal funding for syringe services programs. She hopes to remain engaged in global health at the grassroots level in whatever post-graduate endeavors she undertakes. |
| Bryan Edwards - Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, NY) |
 | Zachary Glasser is a Junior in the Joint Program between Columbia University and Jewish Theological Seminary. At Columbia he is majoring in psychology and at JTS he is majoring in Jewish Ethics. Outside of steering committee and being Vice President of CU SGAC, he works in the Laboratory of Intergroup Relations and the Social Mind and serve on the List College (JTS) policy committee. As part of the LIRSM I hope to study stigmas surrounding HIV/AIDS and their psychological ramifications. "My favorite SGAC action was when CU SGAC did a call-in that led both NY State Senators and our local representative to sign on to a bill urging President Obama to put more people on treatment by 2016. It was great to see how interested people were in our mission and how happy they were to be part of making a difference especially when the staffers on the other end stopped them to say they were already planning to pass on the message!" |
 | Philip Horowitz is a junior at the George Washington University in Washington DC. "I love being a part of an awesome organization that gets to affect political and social change. The action I have done that has left the largest impact was singing in congresspeople's office asking them to sign on to the most recent PEPFAR Reauthorization Bill." |
 | Emily Li is a senior at Dartmouth College studying Neuroscience and International Studies. She became involved with global health and HIV/AIDS advocacy after attending the national SGAC conference her freshman year, and has continued her involvement with SGAC since then. Her favorite SGAC actions have been meeting with her state’s representatives to discuss the state of PEPFAR funding and helping organize the SGAC rally at the 2011 Republican Presidential Candidates Debate at Dartmouth College. After graduation, she hopes to continue her engagement in global health activism. |
 | Lily Ostrer is a senior at Harvard studying Social Studies, with a focus on the intersection of science, health, and policy. She has been a member of the Harvard Global Health and AIDS Coalition and SGAC since her freshman year. While birddogging Obama and Eric Cantor have been exhilarating actions, she has had a lot of fun with some of the themed SGAC actions, like asking Senator Scott Brown to be “our superhero” on PEPFAR funding and Elizabeth Warren to be “our Robin Hood” and support a financial transactions tax. While health activism and health equity worldwide are what Lily is most passionate about, she hopes to work across movements that combat injustice in its many forms. |
 | Deepak Premkumar is a senior at Iowa State University (ISU), studying Economics, Global Resource Systems, and Mathematics. He was introduced to the world of HIV/AIDS and global health advocacy through a summer of birddogging with SGAC's very own Krishna Prabhu. After the possibility of dire cuts to the Global Fund came about, he assembled a team of global health activists at ISU, creating the ISU Global Health & AIDS Coalition. Deepak's main focus and passion lie within the realm of development, analyzing it through the lens of economics. His interest began when volunteering as a teacher in the slums of Chennai, India. It has been largely amplified with his research experience in rural Tanzania in a HIV/AIDS intensive area. Deepak hopes to utilize his skills in a future career as a development economist. His favorite SGAC action was the organizing and implementation of the International AIDS Conference march in Washington D.C. It was his first protest and showed him what it meant to be an AIDS activist. |
