Abner Mason

Abner Mason "is the founder and Executive Director of AIDS Responsibility Project.

"He is also a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) where he is also Chairman of the International Committee. He was appointed to the Council by the Bush Administration in 2002. The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS provides advice, information and recommendations to the President, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services regarding programs and policies to promote effective prevention, treatment, research, and care of HIV disease and AIDS in the U.S. and around the world...

"Abner previously spent ten years in Massachusetts State government most recently serving as Chief Policy Advisor to Massachusetts Governors Paul Cellucci and Jane Swift. He also served as Governor Cellucci's Undersecretary of Transportation and as Deputy General Manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, the nation's 7th largest public transit system.

"Abner is a graduate of Harvard College and lives in Los Angeles."