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"Vanessa, you are so goddamn passionate," is what my first year physics prof/mentor exclaimed after listening to my qualms with String Theory, my voice cracking and softened from overuse. And so that was my name for the next four years of university..."Miss Passion"! :) I am known to have a certain joie de vivre; I am an ambitious, open-minded woman who loves to meet new people and travel. My life experiences have made me a well-balanced,culture-seeking individual: I have been blessed with the opportunity to do everything from studying in Singapore to sitting at a round-table discussion with Bill Gates and Bill Clinton as a youth activist for HIV/AIDS, from modeling to doing research at Sick Kids Hospital, from eating cockroaches in Thailand to not eating for days in protest of ending world hunger. And yet I have so much more to discover, so many more people to meet, so much more of life to live....and I want to share this with you.
Miss Vanessa Ford is GYCA’s 2008 NFP for Jamaica. A graduate from the University of Toronto and the National University of Singapore, Vanessa has been a youth advocate for HIV/AIDS and sexual reproductive health rights for over five years. She has worked with several humanitarian organizations, notably SNAP (Swaziland’s National HIV/AIDS Program), Dignitas International, ICA Canada, Rotaract, AMODEFA (Mozambique), UNGASS and UNAIDS. She is the Toronto steering committee member for AIDS Ride 2008 (www.aidsride2008.org) and has presented several papers on a local and international level, specifically UNAIDS local offices as well as the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto 2006. Her most recent work includes co-producing a documentary profiling indigenous communities. Her future plans include attending grad school and starting her own non-governmental organization.
Primary Interests: International Health, HIV/AIDS, Epidemiology, Socio-cultural Anthropology, Health Care Management
Please have a look at the UNGASS youth report Vanessa co-wrote with Daniel Townsend:
http://tigurl.org/n83jfo
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