Back on the podcast this week is my dear friend Gregg Cassin. Gregg is an HIV/AIDS activist, a public speaker and someone I’ve known since our college days back in Boston.  He is also someone who has dedicated his life to serving the HIV/AIDS communities, bringing healing to those whose lives are impacted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The focus is simple. To bring people together to build community because as Gregg knew intuitively from the very first days of the epidemic, community has the power to heal.

Gregg works in San Francisco for Shanti Project, an organization that is celebrating it’s 50th anniversary next year, where he leads a program for long term survivors of the epidemic called Honoring Our Experience.

This month on From Sparks to Light we are joining forces to launch a special project, the Honoring Our Experience Series.  Each month on the last Thursday of the month we will introduce you to some of the people who have experienced the epidemic firsthand, people who have found that when we share our stories and build communities, healing happens.

Today Gregg joins us to take us back to the early days of the epidemic and the experiences that lead him forward.

You can learn more about Honoring Our Experience and Shanti Project, here.

You can  support the work of Honoring Our Experience here.

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