Phill Wilson founded the Black AIDS Institute to stop the AIDS pandemic in Black communities. A longtime activist, he was the AIDS coordinator for the City of Los Angeles, director of Policy and Planning at AIDS Project Los Angeles and co-chaired the L.A. County HIV Health Commission.

 

He's also been involved in founding a number of other service and community-based organizations, including the National Task Force on AIDS Prevention, and was appointed by President Obama to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.

 

Wilson has worked extensively on policy, research, prevention and treatment issues around the globe and is a grad of Illinois Wesleyan University.