Karen Grey, Peekskill, NY
Channel: UPWORDSVoices
Date: 2013-01-06

Karen is a case manager for HRHCare, a non-profit network of community health centers in NYS.  She started in the HIV in 1994 because for many years she had wanted to learn more about this "weird, strange" disease that was infecting her friends and loved ones.  

She worked for 15 years at the Center for AIDS care at the Guild Home for Aged and Blind in Yonkers, where she cared for and supported hundreds and hundreds of people who entered the facility with the disease, and made sure they died peacefully and loved.  

Karen matches her love for people infected and affected by the disease with a tenacity and fight to educate those who continue to remain uninformed and stigmatize those living with HIV.  Thank you Karen for making this world a better place.