I maintain a passion for education, particularly among adolescents and young adults, and seek to address their sexuality issues, as well as create strategies that reduce the negative consequences of early or irresponsible sexual involvement.

Ra’Shawn, 25, works with AID Upstate and is an activist with the South Carolina Youth Activist Network.

Radical, Revolutionary, Innovative, and Cutting Edge are some of the words often used to describe me. I maintain a passion for education, particularly among adolescents and young adults, and seek to address their sexuality issues, as well as create strategies that reduce the negative consequences of early or irresponsible sexual involvement. I currently serve as the Prevention Coordinator and Internet Outreach Specialist for AID Upstate in Greenville, South Carolina. I then teamed up with South Carolina Youth Activist Network to serve as a youth activist. I am also the Co-Founder of the Freedom Community Center, a 501 (c) 3, nonprofit organization dedicated to provide an array of individual-level, group-level and community-level programs and services targeting youth and young adults in the community. I am so excited to be working on my first book entitled, “The Naked Truth”. I also serve as a member on the South Carolina MSM Workgroup Board. Prior to my role in HIV/STD Prevention, I serve as the Senior Pastor and Founder of Freedom Worship Church in Columbia, South Carolina.