User:Sancho2323/Mary Fisher (activist)/Bibliography

https://www.maryfisher.com/

https://geraldrfordfoundation.org/centennial/oralhistory/mary-fisher/
 * Addressed the 1992 Republican National Convention where she stunned the assembled thousands (and broadcast audience of millions) with her speech "A Whisper of AIDS."
 * Her address from that evening is well-remembered 30 years later and is featured in countless rhetoric texts as a model of advocacy persuasion
 * It's been ranked (Oxford Press) as one of the "100 Best American Speeches of the 20th Century."
 * Mary was honored as a global Disruptor, receiving a Tribeca Disruptor Innovation Award in the company of NIH Director Francis Collins and others
 * Authored six books
 * traveled the globe as a Special Representative of the United Nations representing the call to justice and healing for those most affected by global neglect and AIDS
 * Her work is a call for action > The 100 Good Deeds Bracelet generated over 4 million acts of kindness
 * For decades, through art and action, she has inspired and given a voice to those muted by injustice, poverty, illness, and fear
 * 2012 > recovering from treatment for an aggressive breast cancer
 * Authored a second memoir
 * "My first memoir in 1995 was my story about dying" and "Messenger is my story about living"

https://www.today.com/news/activist-mary-fisher-how-hiv-inspired-me-lighten-darkness-strangers-1d79567460

https://art.state.gov/personnel/mary_fisher/


 * She previously served as an ambassador for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and on the Leadership Council of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS
 * Her art work has been featured in one-woman and group shows and is found in distinguished private and public collections, including the permanent collection of UNAIDS in Geneva Switzerland
 * Her words, photographs, and art have filled five books and countless magazine articles, news accounts, and feature stories
 * Mary Fisher CARE (Clinical AIDS Research and Education) fund to support long-term, outcomes-based research for the care of people living with HIV, especially women
 * She taught women in Rwanda and Zambia to make jewelry > commitment to enable HIV-affected women in Africa to support themselves and their families
 * Her 1992 keynote address titles "A whisper of Aids" was reprinted in major media from the London Times to the Los Angelas Times, and featured in anthologies and rhetoric texts including the framed Chambers Book of Speeches