Justin “Jay” Roby is currently a doctoral candidate at Tiffin University in their Ph.D. program for Global Leadership and Change. He currently holds a BA and MS from Concordia University of Wisconsin. Jay’s dissertation is an ethnography on HIV in Milwaukee, WI titled What’s Tea on HIV. He has 16 years of nonprofit experience with increasing magnitude from front-line service to board service. His work covers public health, youth development, the arts, finance, and human resources. He became passionate about HIV in 2016 and since then he has: taught over 400 youth a culturally competent sexual and reproductive health curriculum, developed a nearly $1 million framework of HIV programming using a status-neutral lens to engage people living with HIV in care navigation alongside testing and other incentives, cochaired Wisconsin’s Statewide Action Planning Group on HIV/HCV/STIs bringing back our committee structures to advance subtopics of the larger work, and lastly situated his dissertation in current HIV research. He has guest lectured or presented at local colleges, conventions, organizations, and events on a variety of topics centering on the LGBTQ and HIV-affected communities. Jay has a tangibly positive energy and a thirst for knowledge, always ready to be a resource.