Meet the Team
Facilitators
Kristina Bivona
Co-Facilitator (fiche/collage, photography)
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Kristina Bivona is an artist and scholar living in Philadelphia, PA. She has been practicing art and radical politics for over twenty years. Bivona works in Brooklyn, NY where she co-established a printshop for prison diversion with Recess | Assembly. Her personal printmaking practice takes the form of artist pop-up books about sex work and incarceration and Bivona is studying for her doctorate in education at Columbia University.
For more information, please visit her website at www.KristinaBivona.com or support her curatorial practice by visiting www.jargonist.org
Shelby Boyle
Shelby is a public health professional with over a decade of experience in data analysis, program operations, and scalable strategy development. She has worked with organizations like NYC DOHMH, Mount Sinai, and Harlem United, leading initiatives in sexual health, HIV care, and COVID-19 response. Her skills include survey design, data visualization, and outreach strategy development. During NYC’s COVID-19 response, she managed data migration, community testing, and compliance outreach.
Shelby holds a BA from Barnard College and an MPH in Community Health and Epidemiology from CUNY. Currently a Senior Data Analyst at GumGum, she enjoys coding, writing, hiking, traveling, and exploring NYC’s neighborhoods, restaurants, and bars in her free time.
The Generations Project
Wes Enos and The Generations Project teams aim to bring the collective LGBTQ+ history to life through storytelling. Their mission is to cultivate intergenerational community and preserve LGBTQ+ history through oral story sharing. We produce and film live storytelling events and facilitate programs to foster connection and empathy across all ages, classes, and sexual and gender identities.
Planning Committee
Abida Nadia Tahsin
Abida is a graduate from NYC with a passion for stories! She enjoys connecting with others and learning about their experiences. She works as a program assistant and facilitates relationships. She is excited to be part of a community driven project!
War Tally
With over 10 years of experience in the HIV field, spanning grassroots organizations, local government, and academia, War Talley is a dedicated educator and facilitator. He holds a Master of Public Health from Montclair State University, where he serves as an adjunct professor in public health. As part of the AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) Program, he provides tailored education and technical assistance to healthcare teams nationwide. Passionate about health equity, War focuses on improving public health systems and addressing disparities, particularly among gay and bisexual men of color. Committed to ending the HIV epidemic in New Jersey, he advances a healthier, more just future through teaching, community engagement, and research.
Michael Hager
Michael is an experienced public health and quality improvement expert focused on LGBT health and HIV. He has 20 years’ experience working on LGBT health, HIV quality of care, and engaging communities. He has led several national initiatives aimed at improving HIV health outcomes, including the in+care Campaign. He currently runs Ready, Aim, Innovate (RAI) a collaborative consultancy that drives system change and enhancement. RAI, and Michael at its helm, has been at the forefront of cutting-edge systems change, including the creation of innovative tools to End the HIV Epidemic, like My Voice Our Stories.
Linus Ignatius​
Linus is a queer Armenian-American director, photographer and actor.
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As a filmmaker, his work twists together comedy and drama to create layered social commentary, dealing heavily with LGBTQIIA+ issues, HIV awareness, and taboo psychological terrain. He won the Nash Award for Experimental Cinema, was a 2017 Emerge Fellow with the Hemispheric Institute, and was a 2022 quarterfinalist for the Screencraft Film Fund.
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After film school in the Czech Republic, he directed large scale immersive events in Berlin in collaboration with Neu West Berlin and Trashera.