LEADERSHIP

James Vellequette

Managing Director

 

AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Associate Director

Public Health Division - Southern Bureau

 

James Vellequette has been working actively in HIV/AIDS prevention and education for almost twenty years both internationally and in the Southern California region.  In addition to his position as the Managing Director of the R. Scott Hitt Foundation, Mr. Vellequette is the Associate Director of the Public Health Division in the Southern Bureau of AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

Mr. Vellequette currently serves as the Secretary for the Board of Directors for the Samburu Project, an NGO that has drilled 30 deep-water wells providing life-saving water to tens of thousands of Kenyans living in the Samburu Region of Kenya.

Mr. Vellequette volunteers as a managing Captain responsible for coordinating 2500 riders and 500 support volunteers during the annual AIDS LifeCycle bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles benefitting the medical services of the Jeffrey Goodman Clinic and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

Mr. Vellequette previously lived in South Africa, where he volunteered with the Treatment Action Campaign and with the Amy Biehl Foundation Trust.  Mr. Vellequette also volunteered in Tomsk and Kalpashevo, Siberia, under a grant from UNAIDS, as a representative of the Peer Education Program International.

Mr. Vellequette served as a member of the Board of Directors and the Board Development Executive Committee for AIDS Project Los Angeles.  He has served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Peer Education Program of Los Angeles, and volunteered as an educational consultant to the Government of Guam.

Mr. Vellequette holds a degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in International Development Studies/Poverty Reduction in Developing Nations with a focus on Central America and sub-Saharan Africa.