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Kelly Thompson, MA

President & CEO
Alliance for Living, Connecticut


Bio: Kelly Thompson, President/CEO Alliance for Living

Kelly Thompson is the President and CEO for Alliance for Living, located in New London, CT, where she has held the executive leadership position since September 2011. Kelly’s commitment and advocacy for people living with HIV began in the early 1990’s when she joined ACT UP Cleveland and worked with the OHIO AIDS Coalition to provide healing weekends for people living with HIV across the state of Ohio.

Ms. Thompson’s extensive experience is in non-profit management, including fundraising, program development, organizational strategy and development, mediation and conflict resolution, fiscal and performance management and community outreach.

In her current position at Alliance for Living, Ms. Thompson ensures that people living with or at-risk for HIV in New London County have the services they need to achieve optimal health and wellness. Alliance for Living provides medical case management for clients living with HIV and support services associated with housing, food security and nutrition, treatment adherence, harm reduction health educational programs. Additionally, AFL provides a housing program for people who were chronically homeless, syringe access and drug user health, HIV testing, overdose prevention and the New London New London County Cares, a program that provides a coordinated response to the overdose epidemic in New London County through education, overdose prevention, harm reduction, peer navigation and mobile treatment services.

Ms. Thompson serves on several committees including the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS - Community Advisory Board and Overdose Action Team of Southeastern CT.

Ms. Thompson is a graduate of Cleveland State University, where she completed the degrees of Master of Applied Communication Theory and Methodology and Bachelor of Arts in Communication. She is a trained mediator and conflict resolution facilitator.




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