Destiny Smith is an HIV advocate from Davenport, Iowa. She is the current president of Positive Iowans Taking Charge (PITCH), having just been introduced to the organization around three years prior, becoming the youngest member on their core community, and quickly achieving several leadership roles. She is also part of a book project, Dating While Living with HIV, with five other beautiful Black women living with HIV that is available on Amazon. In 2023, she had her first big-stage speaking engagement at the ViiV Community Summit.
As a new blogger with A Girl Like Me, one of Destiny's blogs was in The Well Project's top ten most read blogs of 2019. Destiny is the founder of Positively Safe+, a "safe space" group on Facebook for both men and women living with HIV. In 2020 she published her book, Living My Truth, giving readers a look into her life and her journey dealing with poverty, being a single mother, dealing with grief, and receiving an HIV diagnosis.
Destiny was diagnosed with HIV the day after Christmas in 2017 while pregnant, and is the proud mother of two adorable, energetic, HIV-negative children. She met her handsome, loving fiancé at the end of 2022, he proposed on Valentine's Day 2024, and they plan to get married in 2025.
Destiny believes her positive status is a testimony and does not define her as a person. She plans to continue to educate herself so she can educate others.
