Michelle Watkins currently works for Heartland Alliance where she has been for the last year and a half working as a lead HIV prevention and education specialist focussed on the South Side and South Suburban communities.
Of all her many works, Michelle is very passionate about The Community Promise Project --- a CDC endorsed prevention and intervention project, aimed at making condom use a norm among sexually-active African Americans.
Michelle says that over the last year and a a half, she has distributed more than 10,000 condoms and that she expects the project to continue for another 2 years, and the impact that it has had thus far, to be amplified even further.
She says that when community members are requesting condoms on their own --- when support from community advocates is readily available --- when partner sites are more than willing to help with distribution --- and when her role model series are getting into the hands of more and more people... she only expects that things will continue to get better and that more and more impact will be made.
You can expect to see Michelle at any community health fair, on any busy corner, in any empty lot, or in any high-traffic ally-way behind laundry mats, etc... lately, she has been making it her business to be found inside the community rooms of low income housing facilities, and soon, you can expect to see her every month at Olive Harvey College.
Michelle says that she is committed to making sure that there are premier services available in the community... and, making sure that younger and older community members have the information that they need.
As busy as she obviously is, Michelle assures us that she is "Her Sister's Keeper'' and that we can expect to see her on the home page, standing with those who have taken THE PLEDGE.
CLICK HERE to check out all of the images from this event, and if you haven't already, please take a second to join THE MOVEMENT, take THE PLEDGE, and show THE WORLD that you are Your Sister's Keeper.