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40 Change Makers: David Wertheimer

June 8, 2022

This interview has been shortened and condensed for clarity. David Wertheimer was the first Executive Director of AVP. Steering AVP during the AIDS crisis and beyond, David took inspiration from his trade union organizer parents. Trying to hold perpetrators accountable for queer-bashing in the eighties was a difficult endeavor at a time when getting recognition in the press was a rare feat. “It was pretty intense because it was also the same t[...]

40 Change Makers: Richard Haymes

This interview has been shortened and condensed for clarity. Richard Haymes, one of AVP’s previous Executive Directors, didn’t always consider himself an activist. His work at AVP spanned a variety of programs and initiatives including working with LGBTQ+ survivors and victims of 9/11. Richard worked to stay flexible and create new avenues for change and advocacy at AVP. Making sure everyone at AVP had a voice and the ability to openly tal[...]

40 Change Makers: Imara Jones

This interview has been shortened and condensed for clarity. Imara Jones’ work as an AVP board member and journalist are steeped in the power of narrative to confront violence. From her work as a documentarian to her work as a podcaster, Imara has leveraged the ability of stories to create empathy and change. “I think because violence is one of the biggest challenges that our community faces, and violence in all its forms, I think that the w[...]

Press Release on Our Pride, Our Safety

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 8th, 2022 Contact: Cindi Creager, CreagerCole Communications (646) 279-4559, cindi@creagercole.com Orie Givens, AVP Director of Communications (614) 571-5131, ogivens@avp.org New York City Anti-Violence Project Launches “Our Pride, Our Safety” Campaign During Pride Season 2022 Initiative Aims to Spotlight Violence that Disproportionately Impacts Marginalized LGBTQ Communities and Build Awareness [...]

AVP Celebrates the Life of Legendary LGBTQ Civil Rights Activist Urvashi Vaid

May 17, 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Cindi Creager, CreagerCole Communications (646) 279-4559, cindi@creagercole.com New York, NY – The New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) joins LGBTQ movement leaders across the nation in expressing our profound grief over the loss of Urvashi Vaid. Statement from AVP Executive Director, Beverly Tillery: “Urvashi Vaid was a towering figure in the fight to secure equal protections for LGBTQ peop[...]

AVP Condemns Anti-Black Mass Shooting Hate Violence in Buffalo

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Cindi Creager, CreagerCole Communications (646) 279-4559, cindi@creagercole.com New York, NY – The New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) condemns the heinous anti-African American Hate violence incident at a supermarket in Buffalo that occurred on May 14th. Statement from AVP Executive Director, Beverly Tillery: “AVP is outraged over the racist mass shooting this past weekend, which directly targeted[...]

40 Change Makers: Ovita Williams

May 10, 2022

This interview has been shortened and condensed for clarity. Ovita Williams is the Executive Director of the Action Lab for Social Justice at Columbia University and has been working with the next generation of social workers for 17 years. As an Afro-Caribbean woman whose parents immigrated to the US in the 1960s, being surrounded by people who want to shake things up and change systems is a part of Ovita’s everyday inspiration. The first tim[...]

AVP Condemns Draft Opinion Overturning Roe v. Wade

May 3, 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Cindi Creager, CreagerCole Communications (646) 279-4559, cindi@creagercole.com New York, NY – The New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) joined the chorus of voices speaking out against the widely circulated leaked draft Supreme Court opinion that overturns Roe V Wade. Statement from AVP Executive Director, Beverly Tillery: “Overturning Roe v. Wade would unleash a direct assault on the reprod[...]

40 Change Makers: Matt Johnson

April 26, 2022

This interview has been shortened and condensed for clarity. Matt doesn’t consider himself an “activist,” so much as he considers all the things he does as work that needs to be done. Matt has worked in a variety of spaces– from promoting trans inclusivity on kink LiveJournal boards, to HIV research, to working as a hotline trainer at AVP. In his six years of producing the Folsom Street East (FSE) street festival, Matt was determined to[...]

40 Change Makers: Teal Inzunza

April 19, 2022

This interview has been shortened and condensed for clarity. Teal Inzunza knew AVP was the right place for her after receiving the call to create AVP’s Economic Empowerment Program (EEP). She’d been looking for a job that would allow her to work at the intersection of trauma and economic justice while also holding an anti-oppressive lens on LGBTQ, people of color, immigrants, and HIV-affected individuals at the forefront of the work. Teal u[...]

40 Change Makers: Karen Satin

April 1, 2022

This interview has been shortened and condensed for clarity. Karen started volunteering at AVP at the ripe age of 68. After retiring from a lifetime in the suit-and-tie sector of Wall Street, her passion for the LGBTQ+ community brought her to AVP after she researched many organizations, trying to find where she might best spend her time. AVP’s work culture and engagement with trans communities are what made her decide to get involved. “You[...]

National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) Applauds Passage of the Violence Against Women Act

March 15, 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Cindi Creager, CreagerCole Communications (646) 279-4559, cindi@creagercole.com New York, NY - The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) celebrates the passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorization Act of 2022. VAWA creates and supports responses to intimate partner violence/domestic violence, sexual assault dating assault, and stalking. The legislation, signed i[...]