Kelvin Barlow

"Kelvin A. Barlow was born March 20, 1984, currently a Prevention Counselor with AID Upstate. I am the second to the oldest in a family of three. I previously served as the Program Director for the Prevention & Education Department at The Vision Community Foundation in Atlanta, from October 2009 until I resigned after moving to Greenville, SC in 2010.

A native of Atlanta, Georgia, I am a community organizer, activist, supporter, firm about gay political issues, steadfast on equal rights vs. special rights and passionate about public health. I worked as a HIV counselor & tester, group facilitator, youth mentor, community health specialist and public speaker since 2005. I plan to earn a degree in human services that will enable me to provide basic human service care. My motivation is a retrospective of crisis intervention, relationships, human growth and development and behavior change. The power of influence in community deformation, poverty, and substance abuse, and mental health, sexual and spiritual health has provoked a great concern for me in my community and throughout the nation.

I am diligent in the approaches that I make, involve myself, and lead a generation to its over-all whole self. As one that has come from a background of poverty and crisis I have overcome many of the obstacles life can lead to believe to be real. I have focused on the greater things in life that I am pleased to say makes me happy. All I'm saying is simply this, that all life is interrelated, that somehow we're caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. ~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr~"

Ra'Shawn D. Flournoy

"Ra'Shawn was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the son of Bobby & Alice Tanner. Radical, Revolutionary, Innovative, and Cutting Edge are some of the words often used to describe him. His driven vanguard has inspired many around the nation. He maintains a passion for education, particularly among adolescents and young adults, and he seeks to address sexuality issues and create strategies that reduce the negative consequences of early or irresponsible sexual involvement. Ra’Shawn serves as the Prevention Coordinator and Internet Outreach Specialist for AID Upstate in Greenville, South Carolina and teamed up with  South Carolina Youth Activist Network to serve as a youth activist. He is 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. Ra’Shawn is working on his first book entitled, “The Naked Truth”. He also serves as a member on the South Carolina MSM Workgroup Board. Prior to his role in HIV/STD Prevention, Ra'Shawn served as the Senior Pastor and Founder of Freedom Worship Church in Columbia, South Carolina. Today, his ecumenical messages have been heard on the far shores of South Africa and England."