For three decades, Loreen Willenberg has advocated for the rights and welfare of people living with HIV and AIDS on local, national, and international levels as a member of numerous advocacy groups, community advisory boards and councils. She has been a featured speaker at many venues at universities, bioethics workshops, and community forums. As a veteran participant of multiple clinical research studies focused on the immune system response against HIV, Loreen is widely recognized for her efforts to educate the general public about the phenomenon of spontaneous control of HIV evidenced by Long Term Non-Progressors (LTNPs) and HIV Controllers (HCs) through the Zephyr LTNP Foundation, Inc., a non-profit entity she founded in 2006. Fueled by a deep interest in bioethics, late-in-life academic pursuits included the study of philosophy and culminated with degrees in the Humanities & Interdisciplinary Arts and the Social Sciences in 2017. Recent discoveries about Ms. Willenberg's unique biomedical case have inspired novel strategies to cure HIV and elucidated the need to broaden the 'cure' lexicon. Ms. Willenberg is a professional landscape designer.
