Derrick works as a Senior Services Care Navigator and HIV Health Counselor at the Shanti Project in San Francisco. He is a Council Member for the San Francisco EMA HIV Community Planning Council. He has been involved with most NIH-funded HIV research networks as a community member/advocate and representative for well over 20+ years.

 

Derrick is also the junior co-chair of The Reunion Project and ATAC, both groups had a focused concern regarding Aging and Lifelong HIV people.

 

He has been living with HIV since the mid-1990s.