Aryah Lester, a nationally awarded author, model, speaker, and educator, is a black woman of transgender experience from New York living in the Washington DC area. Ms. Lester is a board member of Trans Tech Social Enterprises and sat as a member on the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) Transgender Networking Group. Ms. Lester is also Board Chair of STARR, the nation's first transgender organization initially founded by Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, Board Member at AIDS United, The Well Project, and the Southern AIDS Coalition. She also serves as Advisory Board Member for Gilead Sciences, NMAC, and ViiV Healthcare.
