In the past two decades, Claudia Cabrera has gone from a client of Instituto Familiar de la Raza — new to the city and indeed to the country — to director of the institute's HIV prevention, education, and support program. "I was named director of Sí a la Vida in April of this year," Cabrera, who is a 57-year-old lesbian transgender woman, told the Bay Area Reporter. "I'll have been working here for 19 years in September.
I first came as a client, then I became an outreach worker in 2002, and from there I've been a health educator." Instituto Familiar de la Raza, or IFR, is a nonprofit that for four decades has aimed "to promote and enhance the health and well-being of the Chicano/Latino/Indigena community of San Francisco," according to its