Anne-Christine d'Adesky

Anne-Christine d'Adesky is an American journalist and activist. Of French and Haitian descent. Her father was born in Haiti, where the family's roots go back far; spending her childhood summers and still has extended family living there. D'Adesky earned a master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1982 and a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in New York City in 1979.

Career

As a journalist, d'Adesky has been a foreign correspondent in Haiti working as a stringer for the San Francisco Examiner and the Village Voice. She wrote about HIV/AIDS for various newspapers, including the New York Native and In These Times, and later, magazines including The Advocate.

She was Senior Editor at Out magazine in the mid-1990s in charge of health coverage, and also wrote investigative features and long-form profiles. In 1998, she launched HIV Plus magazine, where she served as founding editor in chief for two years before the magazine was sold to The Advocate. She then turned to writing a series on global AIDS for the newsletter of the amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. She also wrote about AIDS for magazines such as SEED and The Nation, newspapers such as The San Francisco Examiner, and health agencies such as the World Health Organization.

In 2003 she co-produced Pills, Profits, Protest: Chronicle of the Global AIDS Movement, a documentary about global AIDS treatment activism.

As an activist, d'Adesky has been active in the peace and women's movements and attended the Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice, where she protested the presence of nuclear cruise missiles on US soil. She was an early member of ACT UP who participated in the first Wall Street protest, and other famous actions, demanding faster access to life-saving HIV medications, and later, access to HIV drugs for people living in poor countries. She also joined Get Smart, an arts activist group.

D'Adesky is one of the six founders of The Lesbian Avengers, which began in New York City in 1992 as "a direct action group focused on issues vital to lesbian survival and visibility."

In 2003, d'Adesky began humanitarian work in Africa, focusing on the issue of gender-based violence linked to HIV/AIDS and the use of rape in war in East Africa. She launched and served as co-founder and co-executive director of a global initiative WE-ACTx, based in San Francisco and Kigali, that helps Rwandan women affected by HIV/AIDS who are survivors of genocidal rape, and orphans.

Bibliography

• 2014 "Beyond Shock: Charting the Landscape of Sexual Violence in post-Quake Haiti) (USCB CEBS, ppbk 2014); POD E-book, Amazon 2014.
• 2004 Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS (Verso, updated, ppbk 2006)
• 1994 Under the Bone (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Filmography

• 2003 Pills, Profits, and Protest (documentary)

Awards

• 2008. Named among ‘Top 35 to Watch’ leaders in global AIDS by POZ magazine
• 2006 . AIDS Hero Award, San Francisco.
• 2000 amfAR’s inaurugural Award of Courage for "pioneering public information about HIV/AIDS"

Nominations

• 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting nomination
• 1998 George Polk Award nomination, Best Foreign Reporting

Biographical Subject:

• 2014. Biographial subject in documentary film about women in the AIDS activist movement by Emmanuelle Antolin (in progress)
• 2004. Biographical subject in AIDS activism archival documentary project.
• 1997. Biographical subject in Framing Silence academic book about Haitian women writers by author Myriam Chancy.

External links

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• PotoFanm website - does not exist as of October 2013
• PotoFanm+Fi website
• WE-ACTx website