We are fighting to put lifesaving medication into the hands of everyone who needs it

Jeremiah Johnson has been PrEP4All’s Executive Director since November 2022. Since joining PrEP4All in January 2022, he has led the organization’s fight for a National PrEP Program, building on a proposal for a novel approach to PrEP financing and delivery he co-drafted in 2021 in partnership with Johns Hopkins University.

Jeremiah’s career in HIV/AIDS advocacy has grown from his personal experiences with the virus. Jeremiah was 25 when he was diagnosed with HIV while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine. When he was dismissed after testing positive, he worked with the ACLU to overturn Peace Corps’ policy. Following his dismissal, Jeremiah pursued further advocacy in the field of HIV/AIDS, working as a case manager and prevention specialist in rural Colorado before deciding to pursue a Masters in Public Health at Columbia University. Jeremiah was honored by POZ magazine as one of the top 100 HIV/AIDS activists in the United States in 2010.

In 2013, Jeremiah joined Treatment Action Group, eventually becoming Director of the HIV Project from 2018 to 2021. As part of TAG, he worked to promote universal access to treatment and comprehensive HIV prevention, better and more ethical research, and prevention strategies that take into account the true complexity of HIV in the United States. In 2015, he and PrEP4All cofounder James Krellenstein led advocacy that secured millions in funding for New York City’s sexual health and wellness clinics. In 2019, he advocated for the convening of an FDA panel to review the evidence base for Descovy as PrEP, successfully calling for more research to be done on F/TAF in cisgender women and transgender men.

Michael Chancley is a social worker, educator, writer, HIV advocate, and PrEP user who has many years of experience developing and implementing HIV prevention programs for communities disproportionately impacted by the HIV epidemic, including Black queer men and transgender individuals, African-American and Latina women, and youth of color in The South.  He is a HBCU graduate with a Bachelors in Sociology and Masters in Social Work, both from Southern University at New Orleans.

As Communications Manager for PrEP4All, Michael brings a wealth of experience in developing effective HIV prevention messaging and education tools.  He is a Greater Than AIDS Ambassador appearing in the 2017 “Powered By PrEP” campaign and 2020 “Stay Connected, Stay Healthy” campaign, as well as the administrator of “PrEP Facts: Rethinking HIV Prevention and Sex”, a Facebook Group that provides PrEP education to over 20,000 PrEP users, navigators, advocates, and medical providers.  He is also a contributing writer for The Body.  

From 2018-2020, Michael was the Program Coordinator of Positive Impact Health Centers’ PrEP Clinic in Decatur, GA with over 800 active PrEP users.  He has also served on Louisiana Office of Public Health’s MSM PrEP Advisory Board to develop PrEP awareness promotional materials and events for gay and bisexual men of color, and led CrescentCare Health Centers’ The Movement Project Community Advisory Board to develop a citywide campaign to bring awareness to PrEP and HIV Testing to young, Black queer men.

Emily Bass joins PrEP4All as our Senior Policy Advisor, COVID-19. Emily has spent more than twenty years as an activist, journalist and author working on HIV/AIDS in the USA and East and Southern Africa. Prior to joining PrEP4All, she worked at AVAC for nearly 15 years, supporting advocacy to ensure ethical development and swift implementation of new biomedical HIV prevention tools. Collaborative action to redistribute power is central to Bass’s practice as an activist and inquiry as a writer.

As AVAC’s Director of Strategy and Content, she helped launched and co-lead a transnational activist coalition focused on holding governments accountable for comprehensive HIV programs in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Tanzania, and worked alongside feminist collaborators from the Africa region for sexual and reproductive health justice for all.

She has also worked as a writer and communications expert for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, amfAR, HIV Plus and The Rockefeller Foundation Pandemic Prevention Institute. Her first book, To End a Plague: America’s Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa (PublicAffairs Press, 2021), was shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize and “must be on every US president’s table in the Oval Office to remind them of their commitment to continue foreign aid for good,” according to The Lancet .

Her essays, articles and opinion pieces have appeared in numerous publications, including The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Esquire, The Lancet, Ms., n+1, Out, POZ. A lifelong social justice activist, Emily has served as an external expert for the World Health Organization and is a member of the What Would an HIV Doula Do Collective.  A Manhattan native, Emily lives in Brooklyn with her family.

Amy Killelea has over 15 years of experience in public health law and policy. Amy began her career providing legal services to people living with HIV who faced access challenges to healthcare, including discrimination, affordability, and stigma. Since then, Amy has worked with federal, state, and local governments and community-based organizations to identify and implement systemic solutions to public health and health care access challenges, including sustainable financing solutions to expand access to HIV and hepatitis services. Amy is currently owner of Killelea Consulting, providing research and policy analysis expertise focused on medication access and pricing, public health financing, and public and private insurance coverage. Amy received her B.A. from Smith College and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.