In the winter 2019, Kavita Juneja found herself at the center of a maelstrom. A strange and deadly virus known as SARS-CoV-2 was hurtling across the globe.

“We saw the magnitude of the pandemic as it immediately swept globally from China to Europe,” says Kavita, Gilead’s Senior Director, Clinical Development, Virology. “It was surreal and really something to witness. We knew it was going to spread globally and asked ourselves if we were going to be prepared.”

The day after Lee Raines found out he acquired HIV, he was arrested by police in New York. It was 1989, and he was one of thousands of people who attended a protest against New York City’s policy to fight the HIV epidemic – a policy that protesters believed was inadequate. More than 200 people were arrested.

Lee was released from custody after a few hours, but the experience had a profound impact on him.

“I came out stumbling,” he says. “It was a sliver of what incarceration is, but I realized suddenly that this is everyday life for a lot of Americans.”

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Codion Isom never had any teachers who looked like him growing up, and as a Black man he knows the importance of having Black male role models at a young age. That’s why he answered the call to play that role when he got older.

“I was doing security work in Texas, two years out of college, when I got an email from a former professor about Urban Ed Academy,” Codion recalls. “It asked, ‘How many Black male teachers have you had?’ That’s when I realized this might be something I need to do.”