National Minority AIDS Council Building Healthier Communities

Current HIV/AIDS Leaders

Rev. Vanessa D. Sharp, M.Div., and Concentration in Ecumenics, Urban Evangelism and Missiology and Master of Arts in Church Music

Sharp on the ministerial staff of Higher Hope Christian Ministries in SW Atlanta and is a strong advocate for HIV/AIDS issues and Health and Wholistic Wellness concerns. She is a leader and servant of people: locally - AIDS Ecumenical Coalition, AIDS Alliance, SisterLove, Inc., Sista Sol, Inc. and the Speakers Bureau of AID Atlanta, HOPWA of Atlanta, Ryan White Planning Council of Atlanta; nationally - PHEWA Executive Board for PAN Network Leadership Team; worldwide she is Consultant for ChangeOneLife, Inc.’s medical ministry in Kenya, East Africa and represented the USA in Indonesia for the World Council of Churches for World Peace 2008. She recently founded Love In the Name of Christ (LINC) Worldwide Outreach and LINC, Inc., (Love Integrates Nurture & Care) a “Girls to Womanhood Initiative” HIV & AIDS Peer Education and Awareness program in partnership with Shoot The Hoop, Inc. an Academic Excellence, all 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations. A graduate at the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) (2008), Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary in Atlanta, GA (2008) and Dallas Christian College in Texas (2001), Rev. Sharp was diagnosed with the HIV virus 19 years ago and began her wholistic healing through advocacy in 1997, breaking her silence. She is a mother of 4 adult’s children and has 2 grandchildren.