HOMELESS YOUTH ALLIANCE ADVISORY BOARD
Sarah Thibault, a former HYA participant, is currently an MSW candidate at University of California at Berkeley. She also holds a certificate in Holistic Health from San Francisco State University. Prior to seeking her master's degree in social work, she spent 4 years as an outreach worker at HYA, and then as a Tenant Counselor for a start-up supportive housing site managed by Community Housing Partnership in the Tenderloin. Additionally, she worked as an ethnographer for UCSF, a position that allowed her to utilize her undergraduate degree in anthropology by conducting a qualitative evaluation of homeless youth subcultures in the Haight. Currently, Sarah is interning at San Francisco General Hospital as a Social Worker. Her work in her chosen field is fueled by her dual experiences as both a recipient and provider of social services.
Dr. Peter Davidson has been conducting research and harm-reduction based intervention development around heroin-related overdose, hepatitis C transmission, and sexually transmitted infections among drug users in Australia and the United States since 1997. He received his PhD in medical sociology from the University of California, San Francisco in 2009. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego, but continues to work on research and related projects in San Francisco.
Dr. Dan H. Ciccarone has been providing community based primary care in San Francisco for 16 years. He is an Assistant Professor in Family and Community Medicine and Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at UCSF, where he directs a number of research projects utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methodologies aimed at deepening clinical providers' understanding of HIV risk taking among socially marginalized groups. At the UCSF School of Medicine, he takes pride in revising medical curricula to enhance competencies in working with diverse groups of patients, including drug-using populations.
Dr. Alexis Martinez completed a doctorate in Medical Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco, and an MPH in Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases at Yale University, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at UCSF. During her graduate studies, she worked with Dr. Alex Kral at the Urban Health Study to conduct community-based research with urban poor populations. Dr. Martinez is now a full-time faculty member at San Francisco State University’s Department of Sociology, where she continues her research on the criminalization of drug use and its relationship to HIV/AIDS in the United States.
Martha Montgomery has been involved in harm reduction work with homeless youth since 1999. Most recently, she was the field site coordinator for the UFO Study through the Department of Epidemiology at UCSF. Martha graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in Community Studies, and is currently applying to medical school. She plans to work toward poverty alleviation and social justice for homeless individuals and drug users as a primary care provider.
Annabella Hayes has lived in the Bay Area for 20 years and has been a steadfast supporter of HYA and SF Needle Exchange since 2005. She studied accounting at San Francisco State University and has worked as a financial accountant for more than 10 years. Currently, Annabella is employed at an architecture firm on the Embarcadero.
Lisa Moore is an Associate Professor of Health Education at San Francisco State University’s College of Health and Human Services. For the past twenty years, her teaching and intervention work has focused on health disparities and the urban poor. She has worked as a lead researcher on projects examining HIV injecting drug users, HIV, and sexual transmission, TB and direct observed therapy and drug treatment policy. Her intervention work has run from women's health and HIV prevention to needle exchange and harm reduction. Her teaching has focused on theory and how racism, sexism, poverty, criminalization and exclusion produce ill health. Her current issues are: understanding how activist public health becomes institutionalized, linking health education theory and practice with an analysis of consumerism and the globalization of capital, and linking the growth of the "prison-industrial complex" with public health disparities work.