WWAV is trilled to be collaborating with Amy Wolfe, a medical student at LSU- New Orleans, who holds an Albert Schweitzer fellowship to address health disparities and locally defined gaps in care. During her fellowship term, Amy will be working with WWAV to reduce transmission of HIV and Hepatitis C in New Orleans by maintaing and expanding our harm reduction services to support increased community collaboration and access to critical health education tools.
For the past 10 years, Amy has been involved in and inspired by movements for racial, economic, gender, immigration, and healthcare justice. She has spent seven years working with the Common Ground Health Clinic in New Orleans, and hopes to someday become an Infectious Disease doctor, specializing in HIV/AIDs and primary care, with an open mind to alternative medicines and traditional health practices.
Amy is a native New Yorker, and New Orleans resident since 2006. She has a Bachelor’s of Arts from the State University of New York at Purchase in Women’s Studies.