Sukie Terada Ports

Sukie Terada Ports is co-founder and Executive Director of the Minority Task Force on AIDS, established in response to the need of the “minority” community for information about the prevention and treatment of AIDS as well as the design and implementation of effective policies to attack the disease. She is also the founder and Executive Director of the Family Health Project, an AIDS program providing effective advocacy for women and their children; her work has taken her into a wide arena of organizations including Asian Americans for Equality, HIV Law Project, New York Women’s Foundation, and the Sister Fund. Noteworthy is her involvement with Project Charge, a Kellogg Foundation initiative designed to improve the health of Asians, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in eight U.S. cities. She has published widely on a series of topics around health issues. Her effective advocacy against cultural and linguistic ignorance and the imbalance in funding and public health policies affecting people of color has won her worldwide respect.