Interview with Raniyah Copeland, President and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute Discussing Black Feminist Leadership, and Black Women at Risk

Abstract

As the new President and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute, Raniyah Copeland offers insight on her commitment to the organization being a model for nonprofit community based advocacy and intervention. Copeland shares ideas about collaborative Black solutions for Black people, and including Hollywood influencers in the effort to reach Black families. The Black AIDS Institute is the only national Black organization dedicated to ending HIV and supporting those living with HIV.

Keywords:

• AIDS
• HIV
• women
• Black feminism and womanism
• advocacy
• health justice
• intersectionality
• community organizing

Acknowledgements

The author extends gratitude to Raniyah Copeland and Wendell Miller at the Black AIDS Institute.

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Anndretta Lyle Wilson

Anndretta Lyle Wilson is an assistant professor of Black Feminism(s) and Community Engagement at California State University, East Bay, in the Department of Ethnic Studies. Her primary research and teaching interests are Black performance and the well-being of Black women.

Wilson is preparing her forthcoming manuscript, For the Culture, the State, and the Crown: Transnational Black Performance toward Diplomacy and Sovereignty in the Long Twentieth Century. She is also researching a subsequent book project titled, Marion Williams: The Life, Love, and Labor of an American Innovator.

Wilson received both her bachelor's and mater's degrees from Stanford University in Political Science and Interdisciplinary Humanities, respectively. She went on to complete her doctorate in Performance Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.