12/05/2025
We are grateful to the room full of 200+ lawmakers, community members, public health leaders, industry partners, and media who made our 6th Hill Champions Reception such a success! Held in honor of World AIDS Day, our flagship policy event is an appreciation for the historically bipartisan Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus whose efforts have protected federal HIV programming and funding.
This year, NMAC celebrated 3 emerging champions - Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX), Rep. Sara Jacobs (CA), and Rep. Delia Ramirez (IL) - for their allyship and work to end the HIV epidemic. As a way to bring constituent voices to Capitol Hill, we were thrilled to also bring TeQuan Tucker, Benjamin Ignalino Jr. and Omar Martínez González, each a leader of the HIV community in Dallas, San Diego, and Chicago respectively, to introduce their representatives. These guests emphasized that policies in Washington continue to affect our communities all over the country.
Special appreciation for longtime champions of the HIV community and allies of NMAC who stopped by our event: Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Congressman Mark Takano, Congressman Paul Tonko, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Congressman Danny Davis, and many more.
Thank you to our partners Merck, Conrod Kelly Ainka Gonzalez for their support, for being in the room and in this movement with us. Also thank you to Kelley Drye, Apicha, and San Francisco Community Health Center. Together, we will continue to uphold World AIDS Day and end the HIV epidemic.
And a shoutout to the mighty NMAC team that comes together to support each other and make everything we do a moment to celebrate!
