Eight new people recently joined three returning members of the United States Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, or PACHA.
They were sworn in August 4 by Dr. Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary of health, who herself became the first openly transgender person to obtain Senate confirmation as a presidential appointee earlier this year, as the Bay Area Reporter reported at the time.
The new members of the council are Marlene McNeese, the assistant director of the Houston Health Department; Guillermo Chacón, the president of the New York-based Latino Commission on AIDS; Tori Cooper, MPH, the director of community engagement for the Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign's transgender justice initiative; and Raniyah Copeland,