Our Staff
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Dazon Dixon Diallo
Dazon is the Founder of SisterLove and has fought the threat of HIV AIDS among women for over 26 years. As the leader of the one of the oldest women’s HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Justice organizations in the United States, she oversees all SisterLove operations, including health education and HIV prevention, policy and human rights advocacy, leadership development, international programs, community-based research, fund development, finance and communications. Prior to establishing SisterLove, Dazon was the Community Relations Coordinator and Healthworker for the Feminist Women’s Health Center from 1984 – 1989, where she started as a teenager and worked for over 5 years. A full bio is available here: Full Bio |
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Lisa Diane White
Lisa Diane White is the Director of Programs and joined the SisterLove team in April, 2004. She has over 20 years of experience in Black Women’s Health issues and other health education programs and services. She provides oversight to more than ten major contracts through community, group and individual level interventions; media and community outreach; program evaluation studies and research; HIV and STI counseling and testing; and advocacy and reproductive justice. She also helps build collaborations for biomedical HIV prevention research education such as microbicides , Pre and Post exposure prophylactics, vaccine awareness, and clinical trials access. Lisa Diane is also responsible for grant writing; program development and implementation; recruitment; work plan monitoring, staff supervision and ongoing evaluation of all activities. She began her activism with the National Black Women’s Health Project where self-help and empowerment through wellness continues to influence the foundation of her mission. Lisa Diane is an accomplished and recognized speaker, facilitator, trainer and consultant, who expertly intersects many social justice issues, including women’s health and rights, domestic violence, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, homelessness, poverty, and human rights. |
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John Crawford
John Crawford is the current Financial Manager of SisterLove, where he has served for the past ten years. John has worked in the area of accounting and finance for more than 20 years and has worked on the federal and local levels. He also has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur. |
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Vanessa Terrell Office Manager/Executive Assistant Vanessa Terrell is the Office Manager/Executive Assistant who began her career with SisterLove, Inc. in July of 2005. In this capacity she is responsible for daily office operations of SisterLove’s Mother and Love Houses (Community and Administrative offices respectively), as well as assisting with the coordination and communications of the Board of Directors. Ms. Terrell spent several years in the corporate sector prior to her work with non-profit organizations |
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Tiffany Pennick, MPH
Tiffany Pennick, MPH is currently the Communications and Development Coordinator for SisterLove, Incorporated. She is a graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana and received her Master of Public Health from Tulane University in 2002. In the past, Tiffany has worked in the field of women’s and adolescent reproductive health with various private and non-profit entities including Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, the National Institute of Health, Messages of Empowerment Productions, LLC, Agenda for Children, and HERO for Children. She has helped to design, implement, and disseminate various Evidenced Based Interventions both nationally and internationally in Atlanta, Georgia, St. Marteen, Netherland Antilles, and in Cape Town and Durban, South Africa.
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IT/Communications Valarie joined the SisterLove staff in 2010 in the capacity of IT/Communications, with over 16 years of networking/computer-repair experience. She is responsible for maintaining SisterLove’s Web and Social Media Sites as well as computer/network maintenance, troubleshooting and repair. Valarie holds a BS Degree from Hampton University, an AAT Degree in Microcomputer Specialist from DeKalb Technical Institute and a MS in Sport Psychology from Capella University. |
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L. Nyrobi Nicole Moss
Nyrobi has worked within the Reproductive Health field for more than seventeen years. Employed by SisterLove since 1997, Nyrobi also holds the title as the longest running concurrent staff member! As a Community Sexual Health Educator, Nyrobi develops, prepares and disseminates educational seminars on sexual health, HIV/AIDS and STI’s, women’s empowerment, reproductive rights, safer sex and teen pregnancy. Ms Moss is an international trainer that executes HIV prevention trainings of the trainers. Nyrobi serves as a member of the CosmoGirl! Sex Health Advisory Board. Moreover, the journey of her work in HIV prevention is displayed in a 2008 released documentary entitled, “THE AIDS CHRONICLES: Here to Represent” (bbarash productions, LLC) Nyrobi is a noted motivational public speaker and spoken word artist that has been invited to serve as a host, presenter and keynote speaker at various universities, conferences and forums in the U.S. and abroad. As an effective orator Nyrobi has been labeled engaging, dynamic, and unforgettable. Nyrobi sees her life’s mission in being able to motivate, inspire, and plant seeds of change in others.
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Kiyana Scott Prevention and Outreach Program Manager
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Del’Rosa Harris HIV Prevention Specialist/Bridge Leadership Program Associate Del’Rosa Winston is the HIV Prevention Specialist/Bridge Leadership Program Associate and had been with SisterLove for over two years. She co-coordinates the Positive Women’s Leadership Program. Del’Rosa is also the President of the Consumer Caucus for the Metropolitan Atlanta Ryan White HIV/AIDS Planning Group. She has five years of experience in Black women and STI/HIV/AIDS health issues and providing case management to substance abusers. Del’Rosa was honored in 2009 as a SisterLove 20/20 leader -among her peers in prevention, treatment education, advocacy, substance abuse and HIV counseling. She is responsible for developing and implementing innovative strategies to engage and involve HIV positive women in leadership and advocacy activities at SisterLove, Inc.
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Damaris Henderson
Damaris Henderson is an HIV Prevention Specialist and Prevention Outreach Coordinator for SisterLove and has been with the organization for over two years. Ms. Henderson is experienced in Black women and STD/HIV/AIDS health issues. She is trained and certified in all Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention (CDC) HIV prevention interventions for women and has conducted the implementation of VOICES, Healthy Love, Community PROMISE, SIHLE and HIV Counseling, Testing and Referral at SisterLove. Ms. Henderson’s specialty is grassroots community advocacy, education and mobilization and her passion is teenage pregnancy prevention and education. She believes in meeting women and adolescents on their own turf. Ms Henderson understands they will be more likely to make the connection with the threat of HIV/AIDS/STI in their community as a disease that can also affect them personally if preventive measures are not taken in their daily lives. |
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Shantrell Jackson
Shantrell Jackson is the Positive Connections Cyber Center Program Assistant. She has spent the past two years at SisterLove dedicated to helping those both HIV negative and positive. Shantrell was perinatally infected with HIV and has been positive for 25 years. She is a loyal participant of the Young Adult Network at the Grady Infectious Disease Program and organized/hosted their first annual open mic event. Some of her goals are to advocate for comprehensive sex education in schools in the south and helping to create policy to ensure parental disclosure to children who are perinatally infected with HIV. Shantrell works to help encourage today’s youth to be sexually responsible. |
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Stephanie Laster
Stephanie Laster is the HIV Prevention Specialist/Bridge Leadership Program Associate and has been with SisterLove for over three years. She co-coordinates the Positive Women’s Leadership Program and has worked in the HIV/AIDS field for more than seven years. Stephanie is a motivational public speaker on Self-worth, Adherence and Disclosure. As a Peer Counselor and Advocate, she facilitates individual and group level sessions on HIV/AIDS transmission, prevention, re-infection and condom negotiation skills. Her tireless works also include holding educational sessions inside county and state Detention Centers for women inmates and administering HIV antibody testing inside the Fulton County Jail. Ms Laster is currently the 2nd Vice Chair on the Metro Atlanta Ryan White Planning Council. She also sits on the Board of Directors for The Living Room Inc., which provides affordable housing for people living with HIV/AIDS. Stephanie has made it her life’s mission to advocate, educate and continue her work in the struggle against HIV/AIDS transmission. |
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Shanebrae I. Price
Shanebrae I. Price is the HIV Prevention Specialist/Outreach and Advocacy Coordinator for SisterLove, Inc. and has been with SisterLove for two years. Ms. Price is experienced in Black women and STD/HIV/AIDS health issues. She is trained and certified in all Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention (CDC) HIV prevention interventions for women and has conducted the implementation of VOICES, Healthy Love, Community PROMISE, SIHLE and HIV Counseling, Testing and Referral at SisterLove. Ms. Price is a graduate from Alabama A&M University has an avid interest in youth and adolescent program development and HIV/STD interventions. |
Valarie A Sewell
