Our Team
JD Davids
Co-Founder,
Co-Director
(he/him)
JD is a health justice strategist for networks of disabled and chronically ill people. He’s been a part of or worked for many pivotal groups, including ACT UP Philadelphia, Coalition for a National HIV/AIDS Strategy, Health GAP, Health Not Prisons Collective, HIV Prevention Justice Alliance, #MEAction, Positive Women’s Network – USA and the U.S. Caucus of People Living with HIV. He has served as an external advisor to NIH, CDC, and health departments.
As a queer and trans person living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), Long COVID and other complex chronic conditions, he writes and hosts conversations for The Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness and is a member of the Patient-Led Research Collaborative.
Emi is a chronically ill educator, researcher, editor, and organizer. She spent many years working for a large university and a small foundation on health and migration, reparations and redistributive justice, and how people think and learn. She is also a former National Collective member for INCITE, a feminist of color anti-violence network, a co-founder of Survived and Punished, and a proud member of the Allied Media Projects board of directors.
Emi Kane
Co-Director
(she/her)
Voula is an educator, organizer, and designer whose work has focused on health and wellness, collective care and community resilience, arts education, youth development, and other social justice projects. She has a background in communications, facilitation, and organizing for college wellness and advising centers and grassroots organizations. Voula also co-founded a historic queer arts and healing fair, organized with Girls Rock Camp Alliance and Community United Against Violence (CUAV), and is a jewelry and housewares designer.
Voula O’Grady
Community Management Specialist & Organizer
(she/they)
Gabriel San Emeterio, LMSW
Co-Founder,
Senior Fellow
(they/she/he)
Gabriel is a queer activist raised in Mexico City and living in New York City for the past 23 years. They hold a BA of their own design in Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies from CUNY, focused on Gender Studies and Community Organizing. Following their commitment to social justice, Gabriel obtained his graduate degree with honors from the Silberman School of Social Work with Community Organizing as a method of practice and a certificate in Social Policy.
Gabriel’s passion for liberatory community work guides her life efforts, which include advocacy and grassroots organizing around policies and issues that affect the LGBTQIA+ community, welfare rights, and people living with HIV, ME/CFS and other fatiguing illnesses such as Long COVID.