Established by the American Bar Association to mark the HIV/AIDS Impact Project's (formerly the AIDS Coordinating Committee's) 25th anniversary. Alexander D. Forger's leadership in the early, most harrowing days of the AIDS epidemic in the United States was indispensable to establishing legal services for people with HIV or AIDS in New York, meeting their crucial needs for protection from discrimination and for planning responsibly for their then-inevitable demise. That leadership also helped spark the nascent HIV advocacy movement, which would become one of the most successful in U.S. history. By preventing people from HIV/AIDS from being forced 'underground' and thus beyond the reach of the public health community, that advocacy, both legal and political, was critical to slowing the spread of HIV in the United States. The award recognizes organizations and individuals whose commitment and effectiveness in the fight against HIV and AIDS reflects the spirit of Alexander D. Forger's advocacy.
Past Recipients
Past Recipients
2012 Alexander D. Forger
2012 Scott Burris, Temple University Law School, Philadelphia
2012 Catherine Hanssens, Center for HIV Law & Policy, New York
2012 Brad Sears, Founder, HIV Legal Checkup Project, Los Angeles
2012 AIDS Legal Referral Panel, San Francisco
2012 HIV/AIDS Legal Services Alliance (HALSA), Los Angeles
2012 AIDS Legal Council of Chicago
2012 HIV Law Project, New York
2012 Whitman Walker Clinic, Washington, D.C.
2012 AIDS Law of Louisiana, New Orleans
2014 Hon. Chair Feldblum, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
2014 Carolyn McAllaster, Duke University School of Law
2014 David I. Schulman, Los Angeles City Attorney's Office
2014 AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania
2014 Lambda Legal, New York
2016 AIDS Alabama
2016 Shelley D. Hayes, ABA AIDS Coordinating Committee
2016 Housing Works, New York
2016 Allison Nichol, The Center for HIV Law & Policy, New York
2016 UDC General Practice Clinic, Washington, D.C.
2016 Shelley D. Hayes, ABA AIDS Coordinating Committee
2016 David W. Webber, AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania
2018 Cathy Bowman, LGBT and HIV Unit, Legal Services NYC, Brooklyn
2018 Dan Bruner, Whitman-Walker Health
2018 Ronda Goldfein, AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania
2018 Hayley Gorenberg, Lambda Legal
2018 Allison Rice, Duke University School of Law