Chiara Pride
Trinity University, USA
Biography
Chiara Pride is an undergraduate researcher at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. She is researching the double-edged sword of epidemiology as a tool for incredible healing and a contributor to biosocial isolation. She is also a performer with the “End Stigma, End HIV/AIDS: Forum Theatre Project”. Her theatre team has crafted impromptu scenes, drawn from interviews with local PLWH, illustrating clinician and family stigma and presents them to HCs and community centers. The audience may intervene to halt oppressive actions thereby fostering a dialogue on the importance of empathy and compassion, something Chiara hopes to do with her future scholarship.