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Joanne Stevenson Jenkins 2011 Red Pump Award Honoree Joanne Stevenson Jenkins is a Volunteer Group Facilitator for The Women’s Well, A Support Group for Women Living with HIV. Additionally she was a Women’s Health Project Facilitator for Metrolina AIDS Project, Inc. (MAP) prior to coming on board as a contract employee at Hope Haven in 2010. In 1988 she attended one of the first conferences in North Carolina that considered the impact of the HIV epidemic on the African-American Community. Ms. Jenkins served as a volunteer counselor for MAP in the early 1990’s when the first woman identified as living with HIV came to the agency for services and later was on the Board of Directors for the organization. As an advocate for the elimination of all health disparities through grass-root leadership and education, she has served on many consumer boards and health-related advocacy councils throughout the Charlotte-Mecklenburg community. Ms. Jenkins studied counseling and rehabilitation, educational psychology and worked for more than 30 years in the field of substance abuse treatment and prevention, domestic violence and care of the chronically impoverished and homeless communities. Her most recent educational endeavors have been motivated by her work in the area of health disparities as related to gender and ethnicity and her quest for a deeper understanding of the roles faith and religion play in overcoming inequities affecting the quality of life for women. Ms. Jenkins has studied at Pennsylvania State University, The University of Pennsylvania and the Education for Ministry Program at Sewanee Seminary at the University of the South. Joanne is currently the Co-Senior Warden at her church, Saint Andrew’s Episcopal, and serves on a number of board and committees around Charlotte. She continues to ask the tough questions and demands answers about the quality of life for all of our citizens. We are honored to have her as the 2011 Red Pump Award recipient. (photo credit: Jon Stray/Media Arts Collective)
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