We will be hosting our 2nd annual conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico from 4 through 6 November 2005. I helped put together our much smaller scale conference back in 2004. This one is going to be great.

I pitched and helped put together one of the panels for Saturday the 5th (10:30 AM - 12:00 PM) called “Local Crisis, Global Challenge: HIV/AIDS in New Mexico and the world.” For this panel, we’ll have health experts discuss the local, national, and global impact of HIV/AIDS and other health issues.

Many thanks to Erica and friends in Santa Fe for getting Jeremy Landau on the panel. Jeremy’s the program manager at the New Mexico Community AIDS Partnership. Prior to that, he worked with the National Rural AIDS Network.

I recruited Dr. Paul Zeitz, the co-founder and executive director of the Global AIDS Alliance in DC. I also helped get Wenoah Veekley, the co-founder of the Global AIDS Project at the Southwest Care Center in Santa Fe.

In addition to the health panel, I’ll also be working our PAC brown bag lunch on Saturday. From the conference schedule, this event asks: “Is political money where the rubber hits the road?" I’ll be co-hosting this with my boss and our PAC chair.