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HIV Alliance director resigns after four years
Citing personal reasons,
Sharlene Simon left the
organization she’s led
since it's grassroots start
By David Ryan
Oregon Daily Emerald
For people affected by AIDS in
Eugene, Sept. 22 marked the pass
ing of an era colored by construc
tion and change.
Sharlene Simon resigned as ex
ecutive director of the HIV Al
liance, the local educational, nu
tritional and re-socialization
center for people who are HIV
positive. Simon cited personal
reasons for leaving the position
she held for four years.
Part of Simon’s time as the orga
nization’s leader was spent work
ing with University programs and
student groups, such as the Stu
dent Health Center, the Substance
Abuse and Prevention Program
and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
and Transgender Alliance.
At a farewell reception on Sept.
22, Simon reflected on her experi
ences.
“It’s been an incredible experi
ence for me to know people with
HIV, to watch them struggle, to
share losses with their family and
staff, and to share the new med
ical advances that came,” Simon
said.
Her colleagues and friends re
called how Simon’s accomplish
ments led the organization from a
grass-roots outfit to its current
and more visible position in the
community.
“We were a merger of the hos
pice organization [Shanti] and the
HIV education organization,”
said David M. Bernstein, director
of the Acom Center, the nutrition
al wing of the HIV Alliance. "She
really built [HIV Alliance] up.
“We were just struggling to
keep our heads above water, and
she helped our visibility greatly.
We became much more current.
She helped us catch up to the dis
ease.”
Simon, 51, began AIDS social
work in Eugene as a volunteer for
Shantiin 1985. After receiving her
bachelor of arts in psychology
from the University, she moved to
San Francisco in 1987 to complete
a master’s degree in social work at
San Francisco State University.
Soon after, she worked with in
ner-city seniors and became a psy
chotherapist.
Simon stayed in San Francisco
until the Eugene HIV Alliance
placed an advertisement for an ex
ecutive director in 1994. Simon
responded and got the position.
At first, the HIV Alliance occu
pied two back rooms in an office
building on Amazon Parkway.
“It was a glorified storage shed,”
Simon said. “It had a couple inch
es of standing water underneath it
that gave it an odor. We were all
crammed into two rooms, so we
had no privacy to meet with our
clients.”
HTV Alliance moved into anoth
er office building off Franklin
Boulevard in 1995 and built a
restaurant-size kitchen, refur
bished the floors, painted the
walls and landscaped the outside.
“She oversaw the merger,”
Bernstein said. "She helped the
‘Building for Hope’ campaign that
took us from a moldy couple of
back rooms on Amazon to a pro
fessional building. We grew from
being able to serve two meals a
week to seven meals a week to
about 30 meals per week.
To Bernstein, Simon’s accom
plishments gave order to the orga
nization.
“We used to work in crisis and
chaos; now we just work in cri
sis,” Bernstein said. “We’ll always
be changing, but we’re in a much
better position because of Shar
lene to keep up with the changes
in the community.”
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