Our Team

William Hua, PhD​
Director
Will Hua (he/him) is honored to have joined the Alliance Health Project in January 2024, as he feels closely connected to the AHP mission and values of social justice, providing client-centered, culture and identity-affirming care, and promoting health and well-being. He describes being at AHP as invigorating, impactful, and fun! Dr. Hua is an Associate Clinical Professor with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF and is a licensed clinical psychologist. Prior to joining AHP, he spent more than a decade at the VA providing psychological services to Veterans with HIV and other chronic health concerns; providing clinical supervision and training to psychology learners; and leading equity and inclusion initiatives for the mental health service and larger VA community. Will is a proud Oklahoman and son of immigrants from Vietnam. His passion for mental health was formed through a cultural lens, noting the healing and wellness that can be promoted through our collective communities. He brings 15+ years of experience in HIV education and prevention, HIV and LGBTQ+ advocacy, and culturally-informed behavioral health work throughout the US as well as in Guyana, South America.

Braulio García, LCSW
Deputy Director
Braulio García, LCSW is the Deputy Director of the UCSF Alliance Health Project, whose mission is to improve the lives and psychosocial well-being of the HIV-impacted and LGBTQ+ communities of San Francisco. He has worked there since 2008 when he began as a staff Clinical Social Worker and therapist before becoming a supervisor, later a manager and now his current role. He is a social worker, a psychotherapist and an advocate for compassionate, client-centered behavioral health services for all, namely the HIV-positive, LGBTQ+ communities, as well as for Black, Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) in San Francisco. Braulio has over 20 years of clinical service, nonprofit management and leadership experience with a deep commitment to the Latinx, LGBTQ+, HIV/AIDS, and BIPOC communities. Braulio was born and raised in Chicago and is a longtime proud resident of San Francisco. Braulio has worked providing clinical care to people living with HIV/AIDS, as well as the LGBTQ+ communities, of San Francisco, Oakland and Miami. He received his Master’s degree in Social Welfare from the University of California, Berkeley and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of California.

Marina DiCerbo
Division Administrator
Marina DiCerbo is a seasoned healthcare administrator and social justice advocate who is committed to mental health and LGBTQIA wellness. Since 2010, Marina has worked in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, where she served as Program Administrator for Psychiatric Emergency Services within the Acute and Emergency Services Division. Marina’s experience encompasses staffing, finance, human resources, and operations. She has also completed a one-year internship at AHP focusing on the city government contracting and budget process under the mentorship of Holly Wong. Marina has prior work experience with San Francisco-based LGBTQIA social justice organizations including the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), the Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center, the Transgender Law Center, and Out4Immigration. Marina earned her bachelor’s degree in Latin American history with a minor in anthropology from Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. Following graduation, she expanded her international experience by serving as a teaching assistant at Union College's terms abroad program in Barbados, West Indies..

Annesa Flentje, PhD
Director of Research
Annesa Flentje, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and Professor at AHP and within the UCSF School of Nursing. Dr. Flentje’s research has targeted multiple ways to reduce health disparities among sexual and gender minority people including prevention, increasing visibility of sexual and gender minority people in research, understanding the biological mechanisms of minority stress, and developing interventions to reduce minority stress. Dr. Flentje was an inaugural recipient of the 2018 National Institutes of Health Sexual and Gender Minority Investigator Award in recognition of contributions to sexual and gender minority health research. Dr. Flentje is also Associate Director of The PRIDE Study, a prospective national longitudinal study of the health of sexual and gender minority individuals within the United States that has enrolled over 18,000 sexual and gender minority people to date.

Pedro Felix, PhD, LCSW
Behavioral Health Services Manager
Pedro Felix has worked at the UCSF Alliance Health Project since June 2020. He has dedicated his professional career to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of marginalized communities, including HIV-impacted individuals, LGBTQ+ populations, and Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC). In 2005, he completed AHP’s HIV Counseling, Testing, and Linkage Training and later worked at Clinica Esperanza-Mission Neighborhood Health Center, Kaiser Permanente, and La Familia Counseling Service. In addition to their work at AHP, Pedro is a facilitator at LGBT Sanctuary Project OLAS, a program of the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant (EBSC) that helps LGBT asylum seekers from Latin America. Pedro has a Masters in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California, and has a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology.

Aziza Jackson
Communications and Development Manager
Aziza Jackson (she/her) is excited to have joined AHP in June 2024. Aziza is a native Californian born and raised in Los Angeles and Oakland. She earned her bachelor’s degree in mass communications with an emphasis in print journalism from Bennett College, an all-women's HBCU located in Greensboro, NC. After graduating from Bennett College she was accepted as a Knight Fellow in Community Journalism at The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. Since then, Aziza has served as an iconoclastic leader, executive-level advisor, compelling storyteller, data-driven content strategist, social media guru, creative project manager, marketing whiz, and human encyclopedia. She most recently led strategic communications efforts at the California State University (CSU), and for the City and County of San Francisco during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ashley Mooney, LCSW
Behavioral Health Manager
Ashley Mooney is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the newest member of the AHP Management Team, arriving in August 2021.  Ashley began her clinical work serving dually diagnosed Transwomen re-entering the community from incarceration in the San Francisco County Jail. From there she served the HIV community as an intensive field-based social worker and therapist for a drop-in center for homeless trans clients. Ashley then worked in dual-diagnosis residential facilities conducting individual and group therapy. Ashley has spent years working as a clinical social worker and, later, supervisor in both permanent supportive housing sites and residential psychiatric facilities – specifically Clay House, the largest unlocked residential psychiatric facility in San Francisco.  Ashley has a BA in Anthropology from Amherst College, an MS in Biomedical Studies from Tufts University, and an MSW from University of Southern California. 

Jessie Murphy, MPH
Quality Officer
Jessie Murphy, MPH, joined AHP in 2006.  She began as a Research Coordinator on the RED+ Study, a project designed to adapt Personalized Cognitive Counseling to HIV-positive men who have sex with men. She then served as the HIV Counseling and Testing Coordinator, assisting with the integration of STD and Hepatitis testing as well as the introduction of our mobile testing unit. Ms. Murphy served as a Capacity Building Assistance Specialist in HIV testing and prevention in the UCSF collaboration between AHP, the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, and the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health, and provided training on Personalized Cognitive Counseling and Testing Together interventions as well as HIV rapid test proficiency. Most recently, she was Clinical Operations Coordinator before expanding her position to her current role as Quality Officer, where she oversees clinical compliance and quality management for AHP’s behavioral health services. She is also a California-certified HIV test counselor and has been a member of San Francisco’s HIV Community Planning Council since 2011.

Devin Posey
Manager, Sexual Health Services
Devin Posey started working with AHP’s Sexual Health Services (SHS) in 1995 as a volunteer HIV test counselor, while pursuing his telecommunications career. After 30 years at AT&T he retired and became the SHS Volunteer Coordinator in 2014. Devin became Manager, Sexual Health Services in July 2022 after serving as Community Health Program Supervisor for a year. In his new role he will manage the contracts for SHS, and work with the various community agencies that are in partnership with those contracts. Devin will also continue the development, updating, and implementing quality assurance tools for HIV/HCV/STD test counseling and PrEP Navigation, oversee and provide accurate collection of daily statistics and quality assurance of client information collected at sites (including data entry and other Counseling, Testing and Linkage paperwork). He will continue to develop/update curriculum and quality assurance protocols for volunteer training and prepare volunteers to successfully complete the California State Integrated HIV/HCV/STD Test Counselor Certification. Devin will also continue to supervise AHP’s administrative staff, the SHS staff and volunteers. During the COVID pandemic he served with SFDPH’s contact identification and contact tracing initiative. Devin has a BS, Organizational Behavior, from the University of San Francisco.

Jen Shockey, MPH
Provider Training and Education Manager
Jen Shockey, has worked with the UCSF Alliance Health Project (AHP) since 2012 as a trainer, capacity building assistance specialist and curriculum writer. Jen became the Manager of the Provider Training and Education unit in 2018. Prior to working at AHP, Shockey spent five years as a behavioral intervention trainer/capacity building assistance specialist at the California HIV/STD Prevention Training Center. Their extensive training background includes CDC interventions such as Personalized Cognitive Counseling, RESPECT, Healthy Relationships, PROMISE, Project START and Testing Together. As a program manager at the Community Health Partnership, San Jose, they worked with faculty at the Pacific AIDS Education & Training Center and implemented the Trans-Powerment Program within the trans-women community in Santa Clara County. Jen has also taught transgender health classes at City College of San Francisco.

James W. Dilley, MD
Emeritus Founding Executive Director
James W. Dilley, MD, AHP’s executive director since 1984, is the former chief of the Department of Psychiatry of San Francisco General Hospital, and former vice chair of the UCSF Department of Psychiatry, and professor of clinical psychiatry. He was the first psychiatrist involved with treating AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital, one of the pioneering and leading hospitals for HIV-related care. Dr. Dilley is the author or editor of several key articles and anthologies on HIV-related counseling and mental health issues. He has played a role in developing innovative HIV mental health interventions and has consulted internationally about HIV prevention. Dr. Dilley and AHP colleagues developed Personalized Cognitive Counseling (PCC), an HIV risk reduction counseling approach targeting gay and bisexual men. In 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) designated PCC as an Effective Behavioral Intervention as part of its highly selective DEBI program. Today, staff at 98 community-based organizations and 28 health departments throughout the country have already been trained to do the intervention, and this number is growing: PCC is one of the interventions for which the CDC receives the most requests for training. Dr. Dilley is a board-certified psychiatrist who received his medical degree from the University of Missouri and completed his psychiatric residency at UCSF.

Susan M. Breall, Chair, is a judge for the Superior Court of San Francisco. Prior to her appointment to the bench in 2001, she was Chief of the Criminal Division of the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office for all crimes of violence against women, children, the elderly and intimate partners. She prosecuted felony domestic violence cases for 10 years and was an Assistant District Attorney for 17 years. She is currently on the board of the nonprofit, Battered Women’s Justice Project, a national policy, and practice center at the intersection of gender-based violence and legal systems. She formerly served on the board of Asista, which provides technical assistance to immigrant survivors of violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking.

Kelly Lake, Vice-Chair, is Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of CEB (Continuing Education of the Bar), a legal information and continuing legal education provider focused on California. She has extensive global experience leading successful business transformation, digital revenue growth, and innovation for information and data solutions businesses across professional markets. Prior to CEB Kelly was with Thomson Reuters from 1999 to 2014, where she served in a number of leadership roles in product, business, and technology, including global strategic initiatives in China and India. Kelly studied both law and biochemistry and holds an LLB from Keele University.

Michelle Porche, Secretary, is Professor at UC Riverside School of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine, and Director of Clinical Faculty Research Development and Scholarly Activities. She was previously faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF. As a developmental psychologist, her research has focused on child and adolescent trauma and adversity, and related impact on mental health and academic achievement, for minoritized youth in particular. She has also conducted research on gender, identity development, and the impact of the historical same-sex marriage legislation for couples in Massachusetts. Current research and evaluation projects include mental health apps for peer navigation of school-based mental health services, and completing analysis of an app-supported contingency management intervention for clients with addiction and severe mental illness served by Citywide Case Management at UCSF.

Alex Barra is a Senior Organizational Effectiveness Consultant at Delta Dental. Alex has held many HR roles in various capacities, from Labor Relations Representative and HR Business Partner to more advanced roles such as Talent & Organizational Development Consultant and HR Innovation & Change Program Manager. Beyond HR, Alex has also been a Management Consultant focusing on projects that drive technology transformation and providing guidance on change management strategy and execution. They hold a degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. Alex is also a Community Grantmaking Fellow for non-profit Point of Pride. In their role, they review applications for financial support from trans individuals in need of gender affirming care. Alex is very devoted to championing LGBTQ+ health and wellness and increasing access to gender-affirming care.

Vanni Carapetian, MPH, is a Regulatory Data Capability Lead at Genentech with responsibility for developing and executing data strategy for Regulatory Affairs. She started in Pharma Tech Regulatory, Operations & Business Excellence at Genentech in 2016. Previously, Vanni was a Clinical Planner at Janssen and while working at Amgen, in clinical trials and supplier performance management, pursued a Master of Public Health degree at UCLA. Vanni received a Bachelor of Science degree from Columbia University in New York City and her first job was transporting vials of blood in a lunch cooler from Columbia, where she was a peer counselor in the Gay Health Advocacy Project, to the NYC CDC for confidential HIV testing. She is eager to have an opportunity to represent and connect with the LGBTQ+ and HIV-affected communities served by AHP’s direct client services.

Rhodri Dierst-Davies, PhD, MPH, is the Director of the California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP) at the University of California Office of the President. He began his public health career over 20 years ago as a volunteer HIV test counselor here at AHP. He received both a PhD in Public Health, and MPH in epidemiology, from UCLA. He is trained as a behavioral epidemiologist and research methodologist. While his primary field of interest has been HIV/AIDS and HIV-syndemics, he has also overseen projects in the areas of substance use, health services, health policy, health economics, disaster preparedness, and military health. Prior to CHRP, Rhodri spent several years working as a healthcare consultant for Deloitte; an epidemiologist for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Division of HIV and STD Programs; Program Coordinator at the Friends Community Center in Los Angeles; and a Research Assistant at the UCSF ZSFG Methadone Clinic.

Jean Gibson is a Community Engagement Specialist at ViiV Healthcare, where she works with nonprofits, AIDS service organizations, local health departments, hospitals, and community-based groups. With over a decade of experience in HIV prevention and care, Jean plays a role in organizing events and providing education to both staff and the community.  Her work is especially focused on reaching and supporting the most underserved and underrepresented populations.  Jean also volunteers and supports the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and Nakavango, which helps to protect the critically endangered black rhino.  She lives in San Francisco with her husband and Italian greyhound, Jorge Antonio. 

Anne Glowinski, MD,  is the Robert Porter Distinguished Professor and Division Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF. She also serves as Medical Director, Schwab Dyslexia and Cognitive Diversity Center. Dr. Glowinski is recognized nationally and internationally, as a medical education expert with a versatile foundation as a clinician scientist who has led or participated in several projects meant to elucidate preventable aspects of paths to psychiatric disorders or symptoms with usual childhood onset (or their precursors) or reduce the public health burden of those disorders or symptoms and improve the experience and care of patients/families through collaborations with other pediatric specialties or agencies. She has led or contributed to several projects related to community mental health including on the genetic epidemiology of youth suicide and suicidality, depression, bipolar disorder, and social reciprocity. She joined UCSF in 2020 from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO.

Brad Hare, MD, is the Director of HIV Services at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco. Originally from West Virginia, Dr. Hare completed his medical degree at Duke University, his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and infectious disease specialty training at UCSF. As a long-time provider of medical care to people living with HIV in San Francisco, Dr. Hare is committed to the holistic care of all people with HIV.

Ashley Munro is an Executive Assistant at Salesforce responsible for coordinating logistics on behalf of senior executives and other priority stakeholders. Her background with non-profit agencies includes direct support to the Executive Director and Deputy Director at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. Before joining the ILRC Ashley worked for Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco’s Tenderloin Clubhouse. She spent a total of almost 10 years serving in the Tenderloin and became deeply connected to the community and families that she worked with. While she was working in the Tenderloin some of her passions were to help families advocate for themselves and support students in reaching their educational potential. Ashley has a BFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute, is a Bay Area native and has lived in San Francisco for 15 years. When she is not at work, Ashley enjoys cheering on the Giants and Forty Niners and spending time with friends and family.

Bart Shulman, LPCC, is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and the founder and Clinical Director of the San Francisco Counseling Collective. He offers in-person therapy in San Francisco and is also a Board-Certified TeleMental Health Provider who can provide telehealth services in twelve states. As an individual and group psychotherapist at the UCSF Alliance Health Project (AHP) until 2023, Bart worked primarily with the 50-and-older, long-term HIV survivor community. With AHP’s Gender Team he counseled transgender and non-binary clients and completed mental health assessments for those requesting gender-affirming procedures. He has decades of experience in the community, as a student LGBT rights leader in the early 1980s, co-chair of the ACLU Lesbian & Gay Rights Chapter in the mid-80s, and dozens of volunteer and board service projects.

Runjhun Srivastava currently serves as the Global Commercial Product Strategy Director for Oncology at Gilead Sciences. Previously, she worked as a Marketing Director at Genentech where she was responsible for in-person and digital engagement with healthcare providers, people living with Hemophilia, and patient advocacy groups. Her areas of expertise include healthcare strategy, leadership, and marketing. She started her career as a researcher, primarily focusing on developing nanomedicines as vaccines and to treat solid tumors. Runjhun holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an MS in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University, and a BS in Life Sciences from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She is passionate about identifying and addressing disparities and inequities faced by communities in the US and globally. Runjhun believes in promoting inclusivity and excellence in her leadership style, and values courage and compassion.

Majenta Strongheart is a designer born and raised in San Francisco, working at the intersection of design, social innovation, and technology. She is interested in socially positive design, research, and collaboration; focusing on the ways design thinking and problem solving can contribute to a diverse range of conversations including more sustainable materials and manufacturing processes. Majenta strives to be a positive contributing member to her community; she is always looking for ways to be involved with local initiatives that make design and fabrication more accessible to traditionally underrepresented groups. As Director at Supplyframe DesignLab she has organized over one hundred exhibits and events to facilitate interdisciplinary connection, education, and innovation.

Sophia Toh is the Head of Data at Bond Financial Technologies, Inc. She has more than 20 years of experience implementing data driven solutions for customer acquisition, cross-sell and retention, and marketing performance optimization. Highly experienced at leveraging new data sources and technology to enrich measurement, targeting and messaging. Most recently, Sophia led the marketing analytics practice for SoFi; building from the ground up the marketing analytics and data science practice. She has an MBA in Marketing from Regent University and BBAs in Financing and Accounting from Texas A&M University.

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