Meet the Team
Facilitators
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Angela Vivar
Co-Facilitator (spoken word, written word)
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Angela Vivar is a first generation Peruvian-American social worker. She currently works with grieving families who have experienced a significant loss.
One of her favorite parts of being a social worker is creating a safe space for the people she supports to share their stories with her.
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She believes everyone has a story to tell and is excited to hear and help you develop yours!
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
Planning Committee
Michael Hager 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.
Jersey Harte a queer, sober, soup-maker, swimmer, feral-cat-carer who founded and directs Harte Grants, a grant-writing firm that has raised over $20million. Harte Grants prioritizes championing the stories, voices, and vision of female-identifying leaders. Jersey is the co-founder of The Dear Rosa Project, an oral history project dedicated to amplifying the voices of women living with HIV/AIDS. She is also the co-founder of the Salon, the first transitional housing program in the world to focus on women living with HIV/AIDS who have experienced domestic violence. A doctoral graduate of Drew University, her dissertation In Search of Lost Women was a performative exploration about the language of trauma. She lives in NYC, but is Jersey born-and-raised.