LEADERSHIP

James Vellequette

Managing Director

 

AIDS Healthcare Foundation - Regional Manager - Southern Bureau

Prevention, Testing & Development

The Samburu Project - Board of Directors - Secretary

AIDS LifeCycle - Captain

James Vellequette has been working actively in HIV/AIDS prevention and education for almost twenty years both internationally and in the Southern California region.  In addition to his position as the Managing Director of the R. Scott Hitt Foundation, Mr. Vellequette is the Regional Manager of HIV testing and prevention programs for the Southern Bureau of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, covering the Southern United States.  AHF is the world's largest direct provider of HIV medical services.  Mr. Vellequette also serves as director of fundraising development for the Southern Bureau and production of the annual Florida AIDS Walk in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 

Mr. Vellequette currently serves as the Secretary for the Board of Directors for the Samburu Project, an NGO that has drilled 23 deep-water wells providing life-saving water to tens of thousands of Kenyans living in the Samburu Region of Kenya.

Mr. Vellequette volunteers as a managing Captain responsible for coordinating 2500 riders and 500 support volunteers during the annual AIDS LifeCycle bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles benefitting the medical services of the Jeffrey Goodman Clinic and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

Mr. Vellequette previously lived in South Africa, where he volunteered with the Treatment Action Campaign and with the Amy Biehl Foundation Trust.  Mr. Vellequette also volunteered in Tomsk and Kalpashevo, Siberia, under a grant from UNAIDS, as a representative of the Peer Education Program/International.

Mr. Vellequette served as a member of the Board of Directors and the Board Development Executive Committee for AIDS Project Los Angeles.  He has served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Peer Education Program of Los Angeles, and volunteered as an educational consultant to the Government of Guam.

Mr. Vellequette holds a Bachelors degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in International Development Studies/Poverty Reduction in Developing Nations with a focus on Central America and sub-Saharan Africa.