Arthur Hernandez:  

I have a wide and varied range of experiences in my life. From Raising Cattle in California, running and building Restaurants, Entertaining professionally for 14 years and playing the upright bass, and all this before I was 19. Came up to a path in my life that had a fork in it and walked the wrong side of the road for a few years but had an epiphany that redirected me on a path of unselfishness and support of the community I was not only a part of, but became a part of throughout my growth as an adult. I studied and graduated with honors as a Cosmetologist working for the top names in the hair business and opened several salons in Hawaii. I then studied and specialized in Epidemiology with a focus on STD's and HIV Prevention, treatment and care and got involved in counseling, testing and doing outreach in the STD/HIV Field which has since become my life's passion. I lived on the Island of O`ahu for many, many years and one of my ocupations was when I worked for the largest ASO in the Pacific rim and then moved into the Department of Health STD/HIV Branch near Diamond Head Crater, as a clinician and counselor, working not only in a clinical environment but alos doing voluntary counseling and testing in the Correctional Facilities in Hawaii for over four years and documented data that became noted on a National Level, which brought me to Washington DC in summer of 2001. IMplemented a National Prevention program and then came 9/11! Having been trained in Disaster Relief at the American Red Cross, I volunteered to serve here in the Metro DC Area on September 11, 2001. I was immediately deployed to the Pentagon and worked with the teams of support netwporks and volunteers there until the final body was accounted for from the tragedy. Having lost the funding for my prevention program ...Expand for more